Scott Besson
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I ended up in Little River, South Carolina when I was a kid.
Fishing Village, 500 people.
Now it's part of Greater Myrtle Beach.
And as you know, South Carolina is now the number one state for new arrivals on a percentage basis.
Everybody wants to move here because...
And it gets to affordability.
Housing, zoning is not crazy.
There are high-paying jobs, and we're seeing factories like this.
So it's an honor to be back here, having kind of done the full loop, left South Carolina, gone to school at Yale, been on Wall Street, honored to serve in President Trump's
cabinet and to be part to see this re-industrialization here.
They built their second biggest facility in South Carolina.
They're going to be expanding it.
I believe they have 8,500 jobs there now.
Expansion is going to result in 1,000 new jobs.
It's the dreamliners.
They do a lot of the painting of the airplanes, the interiors.
And again, Steve, this is exactly what the goal has been of President Trump's trip.
policy to bring precision manufacturing, high-paying factory jobs back to the United States.
We need to be able to make things.
You can't have a research process that is separated from the manufacturing process.