Constituent Asks Morgan Luttrell How He Will Support Hospitals After Hong Kong Stops Postal Service To U.S.

During Wednesday's town hall, Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) was asked about Hong Kong pausing postal service to the United States.

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00:00My name is Sarah. I'm in Hockley. I'm in the very south tip of your district.

00:04I know where that is.

00:05Yes, I have a really quick, kind of a two-layer tarot question.

00:09So the reasoning behind this, we're at 4% unemployment.

00:13So when they say bring jobs back, and I'm hearing story after story about these small businesses

00:18that get the goods that they sell from China to sell in their stores.

00:23So what it sounds like on the surface is that as a Republican representative,

00:28you're standing in front of this small business owner that's going to lose their business because of tariffs,

00:33and saying, hey, instead of you owning a small business selling T-shirts,

00:36we'd rather put you back in the factory making them.

00:42I'm sorry. So that was one point.

00:45But my second question is, so I work in health care, and Hong Kong just announced yesterday

00:49that they were completely stopping all postal service to the United States.

00:52Who did that? Hong Kong.

00:53Hong Kong.

00:54And we get 50% of all of our medical supplies and 91% of our medications from China.

01:01So hospitals are going to close.

01:03What immediate action will you take to stop this?

01:08Hospitals are going to be immediately crippled as soon as next week.

01:11So the problem is that we have to get all that from them.

01:15I mean, that is an absolute problem.

01:18We have literally, I know, we have outsourced everything outside of our borders.

01:28And we need to bring that back.

01:31I mean, COVID came from China, but we had to go to China to get everything to help us.

01:35And we had, we had, we had, we didn't do it.

01:48And we did not do it.

01:49We're starting right now.

01:50This, this is the, the, one of the biggest complaints that we have is that we have the challenge of supply and demand

01:55because America is a consumer of goods.

01:58We need to be a producer.

02:02Yes, ma'am.

02:03I know, I know, again, I can say, don't abandon the ship yet.

02:06If we get this to where it needs to be, the small businesses, and I mean by that, by this ride, this tear, we have to.

02:13We do, and the small businesses, the small businesses will flourish.

02:16All right, everybody, all right, all right, everybody, take a deep breath, take a deep breath.

02:24Yes, ma'am.

02:25Bye.