Trump DC hotel attracting foreign envoys and controversy
President-elect Donald Trump fired another warning shot Sunday at USA companies considering moving their operations out of the country, threatening “retributions or consequences” such as a hefty border tax if they do.
The Obama administration took a lot of flak for helping some green industries when one failed spectacularly, but most of the companies in the program thrived and created thousands of jobs.
House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy also distanced himself from Trump’s desire to penalize companies that move overseas, telling members of the media that “I don’t want to get into some kind of trade war”. Some of the petitions are for workers whose jobs or hours have been cut because of cheaper imports, but most are for workers at firms shifting production overseas.
Veterans and survivors gather in Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 2016 to observe the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor surprise attack 75 years ago.
While Mr Trump claimed 1100 jobs were staying in the US, Mr Jones said the numbers were misleading and included jobs that weren’t going to move to Mexico. “Republicans in Congress should ask themselves what they would be saying now if Hillary Clinton had been elected and then began threatening and shaming companies when she didn’t like their perfectly legal business practices”, Yuval Levin wrote on Friday. This would explain why it gave up an expected $65 million in savings from completely relocating to Mexico in exchange for $7 million in tax incentives, which is similar to a package it had already rejected earlier in the year.
The company has not responded to repeated requests for comment. But what about the next company that threatens to leave the USA for cheaper foreign labor markets?
The United Steelworkers Local 1999 represents workers at both companies. “The company will keep about 800 jobs it had planned to move out of the Indianapolis plant, but it still plans to move 600 jobs from that factory to Mexico”.
His random daily tweets notwithstanding, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s more popular talking points as of late has been his “deal” with Carrier to keep around 1,000 jobs in the United States.
Expectations for the coming Trump Presidency continue to be mixed, as he has had a hard time consolidating support, as other Presidents-elect have been able to do. “It makes me very nervous”.
“Our president-elect is going to be in the promise-keeping business and we are going to repeal Obamacare lock, stock, and barrel”, Pence said to loud applause.
There’s no question sparing these high-paying jobs is good for IN families and the state’s economy, and Trump, Pence and Carrier officials deserve credit for making it happen. My job is to help Americans rebuild their homes after a crisis. “I actually said – I didn’t make it – when they played that, I said, ‘I did make it, but I didn’t mean it quite that way'”. But that is a much more hard photo op than the sympathetic worker who just found out he won’t have to spend the holidays looking through “Help Wanted” ads. “So I’m hoping it doesn’t go any lower than that”, Bray said.