In other words, DPA allows the Defense Department and other agencies to invest in American manufacturing that can support US national security as well as making us more prepared for emergencies. This work couldn't be more urgent. For decades, corporate offshoring and consolidation and restructuring, essentially just another elite business school term for finding new ways to screw workers to increase profits, all weakened our domestic manufacturing sector. Let me say that again. For decades, corporate offshoring, consolidation, and restructuring, all with the aid and assistance of too many members of this body, all weakened our domestic manufacturing sector. (00:00–06:34)
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Asserts that corporate offshoring, consolidation, and restructuring have weakened the U.S. domestic manufacturing sector.
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