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Secretary Lutnick This Week: April 4

Fox News: Howard Lutnick predicts a manufacturing ‘renaissance’ is coming
April 3, 2025

The American workers have been given the raw deal. And what's going to happen now is we're going to build factories, and we're going to train, we're going to have trade craft, we're going to do the greatest set of training ever. And our high school educated people, they're going to train to do robotics, mechanics. . . You've never seen anything like what you're going to see the renaissance of American manufacturing coming because Donald Trump is bringing it back. He's driving them back $6 trillion he said today he's got committed to America. [Full Video]

CNN: Commerce Secretary: Trump is "not going to back off" on tariffs
April 3, 2025

Today was the day of the beginning of saying, I'm sorry, you can't just live for free off of us. You have to pay. And what's going to happen is the United States of America will get stronger. Our economy will grow much, much faster than the rest of the world. Where we're going is our markets are going to be up. And I understand that it's tough for the global markets, but our market, you should be betting on Donald Trump in the United States market, we are going to do much, much better. [Full Video]

Bloomberg Television: Howard Lutnick on Trump Tariffs, Trade Relations, China
April 3, 2025

You're going to see an enormous number of factories come back to America, or you're going to see incredible change globally. It's going to take time, but the factories are going to be built in America. That's the most important thing. Donald Trump wants to see steel and aluminum made in America so we can defend ourselves. [Full Video]

CNBC’s full interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
April 3, 2025

We need to have domestic production. We need to employ Americans. And I think that is the model that [President] Donald Trump is seizing on. We need to employ Americans for the good of the United States of America. Factories are coming back, and here's the key factories now can use robotics, and so American workers can be much more efficient with robotics. [Full Video]

CBS News: Commerce secretary talks cost of products, stock market impact after tariffs announcement
April 3, 2025

America has been the place where we bought everybody else's goods, and we let them rip our factories apart. It's now time to rebuild our factories, to rebuild our manufacturing base. . . America will be the most extraordinary, the most powerful place, and Americans are behind Donald Trump. [Full Video]

Fox News: Jobs are coming home, says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
April 2, 2025

[President] Donald Trump is finally standing up for our farmers, our ranchers, and our manufacturers, to let the world understand that either they're buying our products or don't bother coming here unless you're paying for the right to come. [Full Video]