Buck Sexton
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They can do what they want.
It's like when they said build our own Internet.
Do it our way.
Clay, that is a massive, first of all, it's borderline, in my opinion, borderline traitorous.
And that was the culture, though, in Silicon Valley.
Our tech leading edge was unwilling to work to defend America against the threats of China and Russia and global terrorism and all these other things.
And they were fine with that.
That's changed now.
And I think it's one of the biggest wins that the Trump administration has racked up on the national security side.
And Secretary Hegseth is working to change the procurement system.
because it's become a joke.
They're saying, yeah, we're going to build something 15 years out and it's going to cost 10 times as much as we say it is when all is said and done.
And by the time we get it, you're not even going to need it because there's going to be some other technology.
You can't have this.
In a world of drone swarms and hypersonics and increasingly low Earth orbit activity that β
deals with a whole range of military threats.
There's so much going on, Clay.
And we can get into the space piece, too.
But this is a transformation of the way that the United States' top companies now work with in areas... I'm not saying they work with them on everything, but there's crossover, and they're willing to work with our defense contractors.
I mean, in my opinion, no American should be willing to buy or do business with an American company that will not help