GE2025: 'We don't wait for trouble to come': Shanmugam on DPM Gan's US tariff efforts

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Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam talked about the American tariffs and what Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong is doing, during the People's Action Party rally for Nee Soon GRC held at Yishun Stadium on Tuesday night (April 29).

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00:00American tariffs are affecting everyone around the world they will affect Singapore we are not a

00:12country that waits for trouble we prepare beforehand this is a serious business that

00:19is why the Prime Minister has formed an inter-ministerial committee chaired by DPM

00:27Gan Kim Yong when we had COVID the Prime Minister worked closely with DPM

00:32Gan he knows what the man can do quiet but very effective nice man one of the

00:42nicest men I've come across but very effective we saved lives and we saved

00:49jobs during COVID so the Prime Minister appointed him as his deputy Prime

00:54Minister we are also talking to the Americans DPM Gan Kim Yong is talking

00:59to Secretary Lutnik US Commerce Secretary and I can say without going into details

01:07the first few discussions between DPM Gan Kim Yong and Secretary Lutnik have been

01:15good because there is trust if we can find a solution it saves jobs it saves

01:26businesses so we can all hope that if DPM Gan remains in government after the 3rd of May

01:39he can play the role of saving jobs in Singapore and as Prime Minister says

01:46regardless of what happens the storm may be brewing thunder lightning but never fear as Singaporeans

02:02never fear as Singaporeans

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