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On the recordAugust 2, 2025
I just want to clear the irony here that the person who is speaking right now has been a small business owner my entire life, and my colleague has never owned a business. So I know exactly what drives small businesses. I have read many statements from small business owners that are thankful to President Trump for his tariff policies because what it is doing is it is bringing manufacturing back to America. Now, I will acknowledge that there is a 'Pain Street,' but it is not on Main Street; it is on Martha's Vineyard, where the globalists and the climate change cultists are waiting for their Senators to arrive after we leave here in Washington, DC, to make the annual pilgrimage in which they talk about the plight of the little people while they fly there on their private jets and enjoy caviar in their mansions. Let me tell you what is happening in Chillicothe, OH. They are happy that there are more Kenworth trucks being made than Freightliners in Mexico. They are happy that the products that are made by working-class Ohioans are now on a level playing field by jobs that were shipped overseas, chasing slave labor that was enriching and building those mansions in Martha's Vineyard. Now, it is ironic, too, and quite a shift, because there was a day when Democrats loved to advocate for the working man. I mentioned JFK.…
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Bernie Moreno
Ohio

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Discussing the impact of tariff policies on small businesses and manufacturing in America.

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