Pence gives lowdown on how Carrier deal happened

He’d grown used to this suspense. WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, took a closer look and found that the agreement “may not have saved as many factory jobs” as Trump claimed. Then the businessman won the election, and the 1,350 workers whose paychecks were on the line wondered if he’d keep his promise.

Jones told The Post that he hoped Trump would explain at a December 1 meeting 550 of the Carrier jobs weren’t saved.

Asked about the impact of Trump’s victory on West Michigan’s economy, Klohs said it’s too early to tell. “I feel like he’s looking out for us little guys down here and wants to protect the jobs and keep them here in America”.

While Trump used his tweets to attack Jones for driving business to other countries, the president-elect made no mention of the fact that his own companies often choose to abandon American workers and invest in Chinese steel.

Trump took offense, saying Jones had done a “terrible job” of representing Carrier workers.

As for Trump’s “1,100” figure, the president-elect was apparently including 350 research and development jobs that, according to the local report, “were never going to move to Mexico in the first place”. Trump wants to preserve-and even bring back-manufacturing jobs in the United States. The union president added that after he heard Trump inflate the numbers during his announcement, “I nearly threw up in my mouth”.

Senators react: USA senators are responding with amusement and bewilderment to Trump’s declaration that he wants to cancel a contract to build the new Air Force One, reports Politico. Think Progress, the blog of the Democratic think tank Center for American Progress, ran a story headlined, “Don’t be fooled by Trump’s deal to save some Carrier jobs”, and blasted the tax incentives Trump offered to keep the jobs. Sen. Carrier, meanwhile, agreed to invest $16 million in its in operation.

Fewer jobs will be saved at Indianapolis’ Carrier factory than originally announced. Under the deal with Trump, Carrier only agreed to keep the part of the plant that builds furnaces open, saving the 800 jobs in Indianapolis.

Moreover, he did say that the Trump-Carrier move was “a good deal for UTC”, adding that the president-elect did not issue any threats regarding the plant’s future.

“The Carrier announcement was big for Trump”, Morning Consult pollster Kyle Dropp told “Politico”. Bray was the only Carrier employee who had appeared on television that day. Throughout his campaign, Trump criticized the Iran deal, calling it one of the worst ever negotiated and pledging to renegotiate its terms. Now I know it was sold with some special “requirements” for those businesses in terms of competition and other determining factors so a new, favored business won’t “hurt” already established businesses in our area. This time, he was warning US companies not to make the “very expensive mistake” of relocating their production overseas.