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Tammy Baldwin: “We couldn't get masks, the ones that we invented here, but…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 46 with Senator Tammy Baldwin

Published | Video Starts at 27:32

I want to say the other place that really brought it home for so many who maybe weren't, you know, charmed by the idea of Buy America, the pandemic yeah, We couldn't get masks, the ones that we invented here, but they were cheaper to make in China or elsewhere. when we couldn't get the tests or the swabs for the test, which I'm still not sure were Q tips, but they maybe weren't, but we had to wait. (27:32–27:42)

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Asserts that during the pandemic, the U.S. faced shortages of domestically invented products due to overseas manufacturing.

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