And the Trump administration signed a contract to purchase 11 new Arctic ice cutters and in particular to build many of them here in the United States. So I started this week, Monday morning down in Galveston, Texas. And In Galveston we had a groundbreaking for a brand new shipyard where there's over a billion dollars being invested. It's going to create more than 2,000 jobs to build Arctic ice cutters. And not only is that important for that investment, those new jobs, but that's an expertise that doesn't exist in the United States. (22:18–22:26)
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