Is there an argument that the united states should just start relying on ourselves, unless on other countries? There are certainly people making that argument. If you look at numbers on what they would call reshoring, so that would be companies that had operations or factories overseas bringing them back to the us. Ein north america, that is definitely on the rise.
No, President Biden didn’t cause the tampon shortage — or any of the recent shortages. But that won’t stop him from taking the blame.
This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez and Haleema Shah, edited by Amina Al-Sadi and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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