John Gardner
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119 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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The solution was not a free market accident, and it was not a state Soviet takeover of industry.
It was the American system at work.
government investment, and I believe we can do this if we deploy the Defense Production Act, the Army Corps of Engineers on federal land to bypass permitting, and we use the national emergency that President Trump's already declared with IEPA and start to deploy that to break ground, build facilities,
lease them to private contractors to build steel, aluminum refineries, and copper refineries to bring the cost of raw materials down.
Because from what I'm seeing is we don't have much copper refineries being built, not much aluminum refineries being built to bring the prices down for the producers.
So I think there's a lot of things in the works.
If us manufacturers, 90% of the manufacturing industry don't get our inputs lower quickly,
it creates a problem.
I always believe in America and I always believe we'll become the manufacturing superpower of the world again, but it makes it a lot harder when, I have a question for the administration.
President Trump's a businessman.
Secretary Lutnick's a businessman.
And what would they do if their cost of running their business, their cost of doing business went up three to five times?
That's what I'm seeing in my business for their raw material inputs.
As a businessman, what would you do?
And that's the dilemma we're being put in.
A guy, Jerry, he
runs a company called Performance Carbide in Iowa.
He builds tungsten carbide cutting things for John Deere Reapers to cut crops down.
He's taking out of his retirement funds to purchase tungsten carbide because the price of tungsten carbide has gone up four to five times, four to five x. That's the challenges we're facing, but I really believe that there's a lot of solutions in the works.
I'd like President Trump to say he's only going to endorse people for the midterms that promise they will support his tariff agendas.
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