NASHVILLE, TN — Bill Hagerty, candidate for U.S. Senate, released the following statement on President Donald Trump’s latest Executive Order to ensure Americans are not displaced by foreign workers using federal dollars. Additionally, President Trump is keeping his promise to drain the swamp by firing two Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) board members:

“President Donald Trump is right, we can’t outsource American jobs at a time when our unemployment rate is higher than ever,” said Bill Hagerty. “Thanks to Communist China, we are in the midst of the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. President Trump and his Administration have taken unprecedented steps to keep people employed during this difficult period and it flies in the face of those efforts when TVA decides to outsource Tennessee jobs at this time. Our power grid is an integral component of our nation’s infrastructure and there are significant national security concerns associated with outsourcing any aspect of software or IT management to firms that may be foreign-owned, staffed or otherwise impacted. We need to put the American worker and our national security first. President Trump is making good on his promise to drain the swamp, and as your next Senator, I will continue to work with President Trump to bring our supply chains home and make Made in the USA the theme of our nation once more.”

President Trump personally asked Bill to rejoin his Administration to serve as a member of the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups. As a member of the task force, Bill is working with President Trump to get our economy going again and he is working to bring our critical supply chains back to America from China. We cannot rely on China’s state-owned companies to make so many of the products we need – including medical supplies and pharmaceutical drugs.

Hagerty earned President Trump’s “complete and total” endorsement on multiple occasions to be Tennessee’s next United States Senator while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. To learn more about Bill Hagerty, visit www.teamhagerty.com.

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