At a cabinet meeting on Thursday, US Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, spoke about President Trump's tariff policies.
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00:00Which I think will be a, I think it's very important.
00:02Okay, thank you very much. Great job.
00:05James, I watched you testify for the last couple of days a year on every night at 3 o'clock in the morning.
00:12You did great. You did fantastic. Thank you very much.
00:15It's just what I like to do for fun, sir.
00:18You've been keeping us very busy.
00:19Last week, you started a reordering of international trade, something that hasn't happened for 80 years.
00:25Something that should have happened decades ago.
00:27And you know that. You've known that for a long time.
00:30That's why you have us all working on this.
00:32You came into an emergency situation where President Biden left us with a $1.2 trillion trade deficit.
00:39It's the largest of any country in human history. The largest.
00:43So you declared an emergency. You took action.
00:45You said the largest in history, right?
00:47In history.
00:48There's never been anything like what he left us.
00:51He left us a mess. His whole administration was a mess.
00:54So go ahead.
00:55So you declared an emergency.
00:58You imposed a trade action.
00:59So now you have a tariff on the world.
01:01It promotes U.S. manufacturing.
01:03It protects U.S. workers.
01:04And you've also given room for negotiation during this time so we can open export markets
01:09for our farmers and other producers and American workers.
01:12And this is why the unions vote for you.
01:14This is why the workers vote for you.
01:15This is why the families want you to be the president.
01:18Because you're standing up for American workers and American communities.
01:21We've had countries come in over the past couple of weeks that represent more than half
01:25of global domestic GDP.
01:28More than half.
01:29That's who's coming in to talk to you and to your advisors about how to have reciprocal trade,
01:35how to have fair trade.
01:35What would have happened without you?
01:37Thank you very much.