This is John Batchel, a conversation with Elizabeth Peake, my colleague, writing for the Hill and for Fox News, about onshoreing.

Liz sees a way forward onshoreing because of productivity gains due to the adoption of AI technology.

AI technology, American productivity, bringing factories, high-end factories home from the cheap

labor markets overseas of Eurasia, is practical.

Liz makes the case here.

Liz Pee, more of this tonight.

Historically, I thought the idea of on-shoring manufacturing was a non-starter because we are paying union workers in our country and even non-union manufacturing workers upwards of $40 to $50 an hour, including benefits. And in China, maybe it's

10 or 15. It's up from where it was. It was like four. But that difference historically was

insurmountable. Now, though, with AI and with all the technological advances, you can build a plant,

admittedly with fewer workers, but you can build a plant, admittedly with fewer workers,

but you can build a plant where the productivity is so much greater that I think you can overcome

that hurdle. And in particular, John, when we have such cheap energy, those two things together

make the United States competitive technology and low energy costs

in a way that we have not been, I think, historically.

I mean, our power costs are one half what they are in Germany.

And with so many industries, that is incredibly important.

And, you know, that's one of the reasons that the Trump energy agenda is unbelievably

important to our future and also supportive in a way of tariffs and their ultimate purpose.