In remarks to workers at the Nucor Steel Berkeley in Huger, South Carolina, on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance pledged not to offshore jobs.
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00:00countries that don't like you. Now, I learned that lesson very personally, not with steel,
00:04but I remember a few years ago, I got three little kids, and as you know, sometimes little kids get
00:09sick, and one of my kids had an ear infection. I went into a pharmacy, and I said, hey, I've got
00:15a prescription here for amoxicillin, and the pharmacist told me that they didn't have any
00:19amoxicillin, a drug in some ways invented by the United States of America. We didn't have enough of
00:26it for American children. That's what happens when you lose the ability to make your own stuff. You've
00:31got parents who can't get the medicine they need for their own children, and as we learned during
00:37the COVID pandemic, remember, you know, this terrible virus comes, a lot of people are falling sick with
00:45it, and we need hospital gowns, and we need hospital masks. We need the things that are necessary to
00:50operate an American medical facility, and it turned out all of those supplies came from the very country
00:58that set the virus loose on the entire world. Remember that. Those lessons, the lesson that you
01:05can't become dependent on foreign adversary, the lesson that you've got to make your own stuff, that
01:10is the lesson that the Trump administration has put into place in the first 100 days, and I'm telling
01:16you, I bring this word straight from the President of the United States, we're so proud of every single
01:21one of you. We're so proud of what you do. We're proud of the hard work you do. We're proud of the
01:26beautiful products that we make with American steel, and we are never going to allow your job to get
01:33shipped off to a country that hates us. We want to protect your jobs, and most importantly, we want to
01:38protect the great work you do right here in South Carolina and all across the United States of America.