This clip aired on WarRoom’s morning show on November 12, 2025.
Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).
STEVE BANNON (HOST): “Okay, like I said, we got to get—you know, the Kristi Noem comment that we’re letting more folks in than ever. I think the focus should be, let’s cut it by 50% in 10 years. I’m serious, you can do it. Tons of actions you can take to do this. You would free up so many opportunities for kids—not just kids, but adults—in the United States. It would be amazing.
Also, with Scott, if the new program, is that the new plan, that’s interim basis, it’s just to train people up. And maybe people in Georgia show me something different, or Hyundai shows me something different. I don’t, and maybe it’s true, and we’re going to dig into it, but I’m not buying the fact that the guys down—and the folks down in that—where they were just to train people and they were going to leave. They were kind of off the books and, you know, living like indentured servants. This is why the folks down in Georgia started calling people.
First, it was kind of, you know, health and safety checks, health and welfare checks. They go and check in on them. Then nothing kind of came together. If that’s the issue, particularly as you have this foreign capital coming back in—remember, I’m no fan of foreign capital—we’ve got all these deals lined up with trillions of dollars coming in. If the Germans, like the Germans at the magnet plant, if you have to do it, then you have to do it. And if Scott’s saying it’s going to be temporary, then hey, temporary. But let’s—one thing I’m going to take by corporate America, if you ain’t on them about things like this, they’re going to have a workaround because they want cheaper labor.
You people, they don’t like the American’s attitude. They want cheaper labor and they don’t want to pay health benefits or retirement. Pretty simple. It’s a big economic difference, but that’s what I’m saying. American citizens got to come first here. You want to be the arsenal of democracy. You want to grow families that create young men and women that fought in these horrible wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea—let’s say everything since World War II. You want to create those heroes that you all said, "Thank you for your service.”
I’ll tell you, don’t—you know, the dads and moms got a shot to make a little money to raise them up right. Okay, do that, and take the economic anxiety away from it. You want to build a strong country? Do that. Do that. Don’t give them a handout. They don’t need a handout. The only thing they want is not to have the world come in here and compete against them every day in their own freaking country that they fought to defend and pay taxes for and built up.
That’s why people are so angry about this, and they should be angry about it.“
