Appearing on Fox News on Sunday, presidential son-in-law and senior White House advisor Jared Kushner said President Trump is strongly committed to returning the manufacture of strategic supplies to the U.S. so the nation will never again be at the mercy of a foreign supplier.
During the coronavirus crisis, some of the supplies used in the U.S. have come from overseas. Even faulty equipment from China (perhaps intentionally sent as such) has found its way into our stockpiles.
Kushner and the president want to end that. “I think the campaign platform that President Trump ran on in 2016 – which was basically ‘you have to secure your borders and you have to control your own manufacturing as a national security issue’ – I think those have been totally vindicated positions from the virus and I doubt it will be easy for people to argue against them in the future,” said Kushner.
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He continued, “Now, the goal is not to make this a political issue and figure out how we can come together to really onshore. What we’ve been doing at the federal government is figuring out how do we aggregate a lot of the different demand in different key industries that are critical for our national security.”
Kushner concluded, “If you look at why it went overseas before, it’s because people were a big cost of manufacturing. Now, it’s really robots…the personnel component of manufacturing has actually gone down, but we’ve lost a lot of the capability here in America to be the leader in advanced manufacturing and President Trump is very committed to making sure that over the next couple of years, America regains their ability to be the leading global advanced manufacturer.”
If we are to be free of the stranglehold of China and other possible rivals, returning manufacturing to America, as the president has already done to a great extent, must proceed apace. It is not only an economic issue but a national security issue as well.
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on April 27, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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