During a press gaggle outside of the White House on Friday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was asked about plans to help those displaced by President Trump’s tariffs.
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00:00Yes, back there. Yes.
00:01Thank you, Stephen. So it looks like we're going to see a lot of port workers and truck drivers displaced by the tariffs in the coming weeks.
00:08Does the administration have any plan for relief from those workers, sort of like what you did in the first term for agricultural workers?
00:14What has it been back to you?
00:14Well, what I would focus on is the fact that we're actually going to begin enacting, as you've seen, a series of historic trade deals.
00:20They're going to be opening up the export market for American producers, both manufacturers, growers, ranchers as never before.
00:28And so what's going to begin happening now because the president's leadership on tariffs is markets that have historically been closed.
00:35So obviously India, Japan, South Korea, the U.K. are now going to be open to American exports and American production.
00:43I would also just note that if you look at the statistics, about 90,000 factories in the United States closed since NAFTA was signed, which is an almost unimaginable figure.
00:54The media never cared about those workers and their factories who were destroyed.
01:01We can all visit the towns now, and we know, of course, the heartbreaking stories, the fentanyl addiction, the breakup of traditional families, the disintegration of whole communities.
01:11That was the catastrophe that occurred that President Trump is reversing by finally standing up for the American.