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The Bret Baier Podcast

Common Ground: Bipartisan Efforts To Expedite U.S. Shipbuilding

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Radio

News, Politics, News Commentary

3.6681 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has expressed the demand for shipbuilding in the United States as a major priority, as most U.S. commercial ship production is in China. Will the United States be able to build up ship production quickly enough to run a modern economy, without being economically pigeonholed by our adversaries?  Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Todd Young (R-ID) discuss how their bipartisan bill, the SHIPS for America Act, seeks to revitalize the U.S. Shipbuilding industry by establishing a maritime security advisor position in the white house. The Senators explain the importance of this legislation, noting that the U.S. has become overly reliant on China for commercial ship production, posing a national security risk.  Follow Bret on X: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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box news podcasts presents the brett bear podcast common ground there are a number of senators on the

0:13.5

republican side that continue to want to find common ground we emphasize the conflict and

0:18.4

controversy cells and i think it's a problem because most most Americans look at Washington and see something that's broken.

0:23.2

Why don't we look for ways that we celebrate what this country is capable of doing?

0:27.6

It's amazing what you can do when you get off social media and you start talking, communicating with one another, because there is common ground.

0:34.5

With Fox News chief political anchor Brett Baer.

0:38.8

We're essentially built chips anymore, which is ridiculous.

0:41.8

We have countries that do very well at building ships,

0:45.5

and we'll be dealing with those countries,

0:47.3

and we may be ordering top-of-the-line ships from those countries.

0:52.8

And within a fairly short period of time, we'll be building our

0:55.5

own ships. So we'll probably have to go to Congress for that. President Trump on a big

1:02.2

priority for him, and that's building U.S. ships. Tonight in our common ground segment, we talk about

1:07.6

a bipartisan bill aimed at boosting U.S. commercial maritime activity

1:11.6

and shipbuilding. Joining us, Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly and Indiana Republican Senator Todd

1:17.7

Young. Thank you both for being here. This has been talked about for some time. The Ships for

1:23.3

America Act, established maritime security advisor position within the White House, establish a

1:28.5

maritime security trust fund to reinvest duties and fees and expand U.S. flag international

1:34.6

fleet by 250 ships in 10 years. Senator Young, why is this important?

1:39.7

Well, we have to ensure that the United States of America once again is making commercial ships here in this country.

1:47.9

We've become overly reliant on the Chinese Communist Party that basically we have to play Mother May Eye when we want to move goods out of this country and into this country.

1:59.5

And we from the beginning have been a maritime nation, a naval nation that requires

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