And to allow foreign dependencies to degrade any one of these domains is to allow them to define America's future. So on this so, on his first day back in office, President Trump issued the America First Trade Policy Memorandum, a sweeping directive to Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, USTR and other agencies to stop treating trade as a technocratic afterthought instead of an instrument of national strategy. last April, the President declared a national emergency tied to the cumulative effects of foreign trade practices and announced reciprocal tariff actions framed explicitly around national and economic security. (08:56–09:14)
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Asserts that President Trump issued a directive to treat trade as a national strategy rather than a technocratic afterthought.
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