I guess you saw that, but the exemptions that they gave allowed foreign competitors to come in and steal our industry, steal our jobs, and bring them back home and bring them home by the boatload.

Cripling imports of foreign steel skyrocketed over the last four years like you have never seen before by over 30%.

That's an incredible crazy number.

And imports of steel and rebar from Mexico exploded by more than 1,000 percent.

We were getting our steel from Mexico.

We were getting our steel from Canada.

We were getting our steel from every place,

but right here. It was then that we announced the crown jewel of our steel industry. U.S. steel

was being sold into foreign hands with no protections for our great steel workers. And I said,

there's no way we're going to let that happen.

I was watching over you.

You don't even know it.

I was watching over you.

Best people.

You're the best people.

You built this country.

You know, you people built this country.

You people and others like you built this country.

By the time I came into office, many feared that the Bond Valley would lose up to 3,000 steel

jobs, that U.S. steel would close, and it was a fixture of the Pittsburgh skyline.

It may never live for another week. We had times we thought we were going to live. You weren't

living for another week. But I promised the people of Western Pennsylvania that I would never

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