Reviving U.S. Industry: A Security Imperative | Chris Stigall and Sebastian Gorka
Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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In this episode, Chris Stigall and Sebastian Gorka highlight the Trump administration's return of $1.4 billion in unused COVID funds and efforts to cut government waste. Gorka emphasizes Trump’s trade and manufacturing policies as vital to U.S. national security, especially amid threats from China and supply chain vulnerabilities.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to the Town Hall Review with Hugh Hewitt podcast, bringing to you the best voices on the stories and issues that matter. |
| 0:07.5 | Here's another piece I'll trust you enjoy. |
| 0:10.2 | Trump's Labor Department secures an eye-popping sum to return to pack taxpayers amid Doge push. |
| 0:17.6 | This from the New York Post, the U.S. Labor Secretary announcing this week that her department will return over $1 billion with a B in unused COVID-era funding to the taxpayers amid the Trump administration's push for the Doge efficiency team to slash waste fraud and abuse in government. |
| 0:40.1 | The Labor Department said in a statement, |
| 0:47.6 | $1.4 billion of unspent COVID funds will be returned to the taxpayers through the Treasury and their general fund. |
| 0:52.1 | Action is being taken to recover the remaining $2.9 billion. |
| 0:53.3 | So that's just the beginning. |
| 1:00.4 | Again, clawing back all of the waste, eliminating wasteful departments, eliminating wasteful duplicative jobs, levying tariffs. |
| 1:05.1 | We're $36 trillion in debt. |
| 1:08.9 | Something's got to change. |
| 1:10.5 | The dynamics got to change. We've got to make things here. We've got to change. The dynamics got to change. |
| 1:12.1 | We've got to make things here. |
| 1:13.6 | We've got to create jobs here. |
| 1:15.3 | We've got to clawback government spending. |
| 1:17.1 | We've got to shrink government spending. |
| 1:18.6 | We've got to put more disposable income in your pocket and mine. |
| 1:22.7 | This is hard stuff. |
| 1:25.2 | Far harder than just printing money, artificially juicing the stock market |
| 1:29.3 | and letting some other guy deal with it and kick the can down the road. Trump is shooting big. |
| 1:33.1 | This is legacy stuff. Let's go back because when we get him on the horn, I'm going to ask him |
| 1:38.1 | very specifically about the importance of this from a national security perspective. |
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