Marjorie Taylor Greene: “the best way to compete with China is to have a strong American economy. We shouldn't be funding the protection of a…”

“the best way to compete with China is to have a strong American economy. We shouldn't be funding the protection of a foreign country that is producing over 90 percent of our chips when we should be producing those chips right here at home. Currently, many of our rare earth minerals are tied up on Federal lands, and this is a problem that is tying up the production of chips here in America. Mr. Chairman, America should be building our strength and resilience. Instead of, let's say, an additional $500 million being given to Taiwan for their defense budget, we should be investing that $500 million into America's ability to produce chips so that we don't have to be the world's police that defends all these other foreign countries from China's aggression. The best way to beat China is with a strong America, but decades of America-last policies, where our manufacturing jobs were sent overseas and sent to China, is what made China strong. America created that problem, and America is continuing to create that problem by dependence on foreign countries for our own manufacturing. This is why rural America has been crumbling for decades because of the economic loss of their own small towns. In America today, the cost of college tuition has increased by over 180 percent. That means it is unaffordable for many students, and they are laden with student loan debt.”