Trump has not kept his promises to Michigan’s auto industry before COVID

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Ex-President Donald Trump repeatedly made promises about returning Michigan’s auto industry jobs to “greatness,” but when he was president, auto and parts manufacturing jobs were declining long before COVID hit, according to a new analysis from The Detroit News.

Trump days ago made his usual far-reaching promises that he would bring back Michigan’s auto industry “at a level never seen before” and “all your car factories will come back.” You’ll have more jobs than you’ve ever had in this state. Your car industry will be relatively the same size as it was sixty years ago, when you were still somewhat dominant.”

These promises are very similar to his promises from 2016, eight years ago, that he would not close any factories.

The Republican nominee “has failed to fully deliver on similar assurances he made eight years ago before his first term in the White House,” the report in the Detroit News (paywall) said.

Still, the number of auto and parts manufacturing jobs in Michigan fell during Trump’s first term — even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit — according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while there were some additional investments made by Michigan industry during his four years in office, there were also auto plants closed in the state, including General Motors Co. Warren Transmission plant in 2019.

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The number of auto and parts manufacturing jobs in Michigan when Trump had about 175,000 jobs came to power in January 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It fell to 171,300 in February 2020, a decline of 2.2%, before the state reported its first COVID-19 cases in March 2020… By the end of Trump’s term, there were 166,300 auto and parts manufacturing jobs in Michigan, a 5% decline from when he took office, according to the agency’s data.

The industry is unlikely to significantly increase the number of workers in Michigan above the current trajectory because they would have to come from other U.S. regions, Sam Fiorani, vice president of Global Vehicle Forecasting for AutoForecast Solutions LLC, told The Detroit News.

He explained a major problem with Trump’s tariff plan: “Raising tariffs to bring internationally produced parts into the United States will increase the prices of vehicles that are already thought to be overpriced.”

Trump’s promise to return auto job levels to the 1970s made Metro Detroit demographer Kurt Metzger laugh. He told the Detroit News: “Absolutely not.”

Even his own supporters disagree that Trump can achieve what he promises his voters. As Republicans and Trump backers of Michigan Secretary of State Jim Runestad said, “It’s going to be a tough road to get it back to what it was in the 1960s and 1970s. But you could certainly reverse the decline.â€

Runestad was one of 11 senators who supported Trump’s attempt to overthrow the will of the people and steal the 2020 election. The Detroit News says he blamed COVID for poor auto job numbers during Trump’s first term, even though jobs were already declining before COVID, and he thinks Trump’s 100% to 200% tariffs on cars made in Mexico made and sold in the US could lead to a decline in employment. work.

When Detroit News asked the Trump campaign why voters should believe them now, given that Trump made the same promises in 2016 and failed to deliver on them, the Trump campaign repeated one of Trump’s 2016 claims about “unleashing energy” ( this is a common Republican refrain):

“Under President Trump, we will unleash American energy and give the auto industry the tools to become bigger, better and stronger.” Which instruments?

The Trump campaign also claimed that Michigan will lose jobs if Harris is elected and that Trump created more new manufacturing jobs “in his first 37 months” than the Biden administration did in its first 37 months.

Obviously in March of this year, which is about 37 months, under President Biden the US added 423,000 manufacturing jobs. “Nearly every state added manufacturing jobs in the first eleven months of President Biden taking office. By comparison, the U.S. created just 2,000 manufacturing jobs in 2019,” according to the Joint Economic Committee Democrats.

An even starker picture is painted by the BlueGreen Alliance: “Since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, more than 775,000 manufacturing jobs have been added to the economy. Growth is expected to continue, with the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act estimated to create 336,000 manufacturing jobs per year through 2035.”

“In contrast, more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during former President Donald Trump’s single term. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturing job growth had virtually halted under the Trump administration.”

President Biden’s approach is based on reality

President Biden has made it his mission to revive and protect America by reducing manufacturing, strengthening our supply chains and creating good-paying jobs. Biden’s Invest in America agenda and bipartisan infrastructure bill have not only helped rebuild our crumbling bridges, but supported more than 700,000 new jobs per year

Infrastructure is something Trump promised but didn’t deliver.

CNBC found that Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which not a single Republican voted for, “has created a manufacturing boom in the U.S., mobilizing tens of billions of dollars in investment, especially in rural communities in need of economic development.”

By the way, Trump wants to repeal the IRA. So that industrial boom would no longer be supported. Additionally, Biden implemented an EO in Michigan to promote good-paying jobs with strong labor standards.

The AP reported Tuesday morning: “U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose in August as the U.S. labor market continued to show resilience…. Job openings have fallen steadily since a peak of 12.2 million in March 2022, but they remain above levels before the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. economy in early 2020.”

Donald Trump makes a lot of empty promises about calling the morning after you vote for him, but when voters woke up after he got what he wanted, he ghosted them.

Nowhere to be found, surrounded by his mafia-like entourage who punished anyone who did not kiss the ring and perpetuated falsehoods to appease Trump’s ego. And in 2021, Trump incited an insurrection to overthrow the will of the people, but their elected president took office and he is the one who has worked tirelessly to bring back manufacturing and create good-paying jobs for American families, while the legacy The media largely ignored his efforts, perhaps because they focused on the working class rather than the investment class.

Could the contrast really be that great? The numbers don’t lie, and neither does Biden’s work over the past nearly four years, which we’ve covered brick by brick as we saw him take important steps to transform America so that the working class had a chance to fight again. Yes, the contrast is that great. There are nuances as always, but ultimately Trump hasn’t done the work to deliver on his promises, and Biden has.

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