Before heading out to Pittsburgh to celebrate President Donald Trump’s deal that keeps U.S. Steel headquartered in America, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Newsmax that the president’s agreement protects workers here in the United States.

“When I found out this deal was done and inked, I couldn’t be more excited to go down and start to visit with those steelworkers as we create these 70,000 new jobs,” Chavez-DeRemer said Friday on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “This is important for the economy, this is important for America, and this is a historic deal that the president has made with U.S. Steel.

“First and foremost, what the president did there was protect the American worker,” she said. “On-shoring and having in the agreement that those American workers will stay here in the United States was key. That has been his focus from day one. That is what we are working on together is to grow this economy and to make sure that we’re protecting the American worker first. And he sealed the deal.”

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