Hi, everybody. It's Cheryl Ackison. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

We're in the midst of an unprecedented resurgence in U.S. manufacturing as promised by President Trump,

what it means to all of us and to national security.

You won't hear much reporting on this issue, at least the take that you will be hearing today in this podcast, because it is perceived to be something positive happening under the second Trump administration.

And a lot of the media will not report accurately on such things,

or at least they'll leave out a lot of facts because they don't want to help this president whom they dislike. But you could call it the Trump effect. That's what the White House is calling

it, in fact. Since President Trump returned to office, his America First economic policies

have sparked trillions of dollars

in new investment in U.S. manufacturing, technology, and infrastructure. I'm reading now from the

site that I encourage you to visit whitehouse.gov slash investments. And here you can see an

incredible list of a surge in private and foreign investment investments. And here you can see an incredible list of a surge in private and foreign

investment in the United States that are fueling jobs and opportunity in many sections of

this country. The White House puts total U.S. and foreign investment as a result of the second

Trump administration efforts, at least in part as a

result of that, at $8.9 trillion.

Leading that PAC is foreign investment by the United Arab Emirates in manufacturing, industry,

technology, and aerospace and energy, an investment of $1.4 trillion, followed by other investments by

Qatar, $1.2 trillion, Japan, $1 trillion, Apple, $600 billion, $700 billion, Saudi Arabia,

$600 billion, EU firms in a trade deal, 600 billion,

SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle, 500 billion, N-V-I-D-I-A-A, 500 billion, India, 500 billion,

South Korea, 450 billion investment, Micron, Jira, IBM, and a company called TSM in Arizona.

That stands for Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing company, and that's where we are going on

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