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Ruben Gallego: “We learned a lot of hard lessons during COVID about how…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Senators Bernie Moreno and Rubén Gallego on US-Colombia ties

Published | Video Starts at 14:36

Our goal as a nation, and it's a Democratic Republican goal, is to really decouple ourselves from, you know, the, the kind of the Asian economies, specifically China. You know, we, We learned a lot of hard lessons during COVID about how reliant we were on, you know, Asian cargo ships coming over the Pacific Ocean. And what we can't make in the United States or business choose not to make the United States. We hope that they will choose to near shore. (14:36–14:48)

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