Hudson Institute fellow Paul Sracic said that while Trump is considered headstrong by his critics, this deal shows Trump was willing to look past his own preconceived ideas of what U.S. Steel should look like and toward the reality that billions of dollars of investment in well-paying steel jobs in the Rust Belt was too much to pass up.
“Instead of just killing the deal, he used his opposition as leverage to get even more investment dollars than Nippon Steel had originally offered,” Sracic said.
“In every way now, Trump can take credit for this investment. It was his application of steel tariffs during his first term which led Nippon Steel to seek out the purchase in the first place,” Sracic continued.
It’s important to realize that Nippon Steel wants U.S. Steel’s production to allow it to compete better with Chinese steelmakers, such as the state-owned Baowu Steel, which has been accused of stealing technology from the U.S.
“Through his application of tariffs, Trump has managed to secure U.S. jobs and helped to directly take on China,” Sracic said.
This is why I advocate for single-item bills. Status quo too often dumps verbose, cumbersome stacks of bills hundreds or thousands of pages in length at the last minute and forces a vote on the floor.
Everyone knew what trump was doing and how terrible he is. Some people like to pretend it’s fine, but deep down everyone knows. How is Elon now pretending to stand up against this fucktard literally erasing all the hard work the US has done, after sucking his cock for so long. It’s real fucking gross when people do this…!!! Like beyond stupid. Not only gross, but he burns both sides of all bridges doing so. I don’t get it when people do this. I also don’t get why people support such companies overtly doing this type of trash.
Nah. The affordable care act gave health insurance to millions of Americans who didn’t have it. That built something, something difficult but important that changed the lives of millions for the better. Ok, maybe there had to be some pork to get it over the finish line
As opposed to the current debacle which is adding to the debt and taking from the poor in order to give tax breaks to the rich. This isn’t comparing apples and oranges, it’s apples and dogshit.
You mean like the number of times the FBI has stated to a news correspondent that an individual suspect was “on our radar” for potential threats before they acted to commit a mass murder?
But I can’t bring a bottle of water onto an airplane or nail clippers.
They seemed to have spare time to monitor parents at school board meetings and “friendly chats” for politically critical social media posts not all that long ago.
Sure…so they say. Millions of people have experienced a few thousand of their people being murdered for their governments wrong doings. Their governments over reach is rarely considered great for society. As I feel the patriot act in the US is also not great for society. It’s a degradation, one step closer to CCP stylings. Now people are used to it, tome to push further. As is happening now.
Still waiting for Trumps epstein files…can’t take that long to delete pages and photos, surely
Trump gets dick sucked 24/7 then throws em out. He’s got a lot of people to replace Elon. The whole thing is just absurd. Not mature enough for government roles. Both of them. Well, most of them. Meanwhile, debt further. Let’s hope war with Iran saves a few trillion from their stupid health care and education waste.