Apparently there was a video, too (both since deleted).
This wasn't a slip. It was in a written speech and blasted out on social media.
Slotkin's only 4 years younger than I am. This was still an era were you grew up "knowing" this stuff through basic osmosis if your parents flipped on PBS occasionally, even aside from what you should have just learned.
Admittedly I knew this stuff a bit more than the average bear because my mom was a child in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, but still...
You can read coverage of the speech here, from a liberal outlet which puts in convenient ellipses to obscure the stupid part. The whole thing is the same fucking speech a certain kind of Democrat has been giving for 20 years, in which nothing can be justified separate from "national security" and a "threat from China."
Improving lives in America isn't a "national security" issue. You don't have to frame it that way.
Bernie Sanders: we should take these actions to improve the lives of Middle Class Americans (boo, hiss, communism)
Centrist Dipshit Senators: we should do unspecified things to improve the lives of Middle Class Americans because scary China (swoon, wow, so smart, brilliant)
John Blutarsky was closer to reality:
