Lulu Garcia Navarro
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You're a producer over there, and suddenly tariffs are up, and you've got to compete with an American producer. What are you going to do?
You're a producer over there, and suddenly tariffs are up, and you've got to compete with an American producer. What are you going to do?
That's exactly what they do. It's not an assumption. That's just a fact.
That's exactly what they do. It's not an assumption. That's just a fact.
So here's one of the iron laws of manufacturing. If manufacturing goes abroad, the supply chains follow and vice versa. Okay.
So here's one of the iron laws of manufacturing. If manufacturing goes abroad, the supply chains follow and vice versa. Okay.
You can have a domestic investment come quickly.
You can have a domestic investment come quickly.
You see wages go up, and that gives consumers more spending power and offsets any rise in prices. If real wages rise faster than any other types of inflation, people are still better off.
You see wages go up, and that gives consumers more spending power and offsets any rise in prices. If real wages rise faster than any other types of inflation, people are still better off.
When I was a campaign advisor in 2016, I had a mantra. It was tax cuts, deregulation, strategic energy dominance, fair trade. Those were the four components, the tires on the car towards economic prosperity.
When I was a campaign advisor in 2016, I had a mantra. It was tax cuts, deregulation, strategic energy dominance, fair trade. Those were the four components, the tires on the car towards economic prosperity.
that we're trying to accomplish, that President Trump is trying to accomplish, is more stable and resilient supply chains, which we have learned to be an enormous problem in the wake of the pandemic. So that's a major national security and economic security risk.
that we're trying to accomplish, that President Trump is trying to accomplish, is more stable and resilient supply chains, which we have learned to be an enormous problem in the wake of the pandemic. So that's a major national security and economic security risk.
We get screwed. by everyone and we could afford it in the 1950s. We can't afford it. That's the thing the rest of the world needs to understand. It's like when they want to come to Uncle Sam for support, for democracy, if we don't have manufacturing in the defense industrial base because it all got exported because people are cheating us on trade, We're not going to be there.
We get screwed. by everyone and we could afford it in the 1950s. We can't afford it. That's the thing the rest of the world needs to understand. It's like when they want to come to Uncle Sam for support, for democracy, if we don't have manufacturing in the defense industrial base because it all got exported because people are cheating us on trade, We're not going to be there.
And that's why in the first term when President Trump said economic security is national security, it was a very important message and foundation for the way we here in Trump land think about things.
And that's why in the first term when President Trump said economic security is national security, it was a very important message and foundation for the way we here in Trump land think about things.
It's not going to be painful for America. It's going to be a beautiful thing. President Donald John Trump has proven that tariffs work for the American people. And they're going to be even more, much more important this second term. This is all set in motion now, Ana. So... Stay tuned.
It's not going to be painful for America. It's going to be a beautiful thing. President Donald John Trump has proven that tariffs work for the American people. And they're going to be even more, much more important this second term. This is all set in motion now, Ana. So... Stay tuned.