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Spencer Cox: “The United States stopped building technology, seeding far…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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FULL SPEECH - Gov. Cox delivers State of the State address

Published | Video Starts at 06:40

Negativity and inertia have replaced America's culture of building. We stopped building infrastructure as a tangle of over regulation, outdated permitting processes and entrenched nimbyism. Fed by special interests and bureaucracies. Block The United States stopped building technology, seeding far too much of our manufacturing industry, critical minerals and energy production to our adversaries. And worst of all, we stopped building resilient people. For decades, families have been under attack. (06:40–06:49)

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Asserts that the U.S. has ceded significant technological and industrial capabilities to adversaries.

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