No more broken promises
Want to make America great? Quit attacking American workers.
Two years ago, Donald Trump promised to protect Ohio workers. He broke that promise.
That’s not leadership — it’s a failure of leadership. And sadly, that’s all the thousands of workers and families impacted by the shuttering of GM’s Lordstown plant have seen from Trump: broken promises, a failure to lead, and angry attacks on the people working night and day to save these jobs.
Back in October, before the plant shut down operations, Trump even said that “it doesn’t really matter” because “Ohio’s going to replace those jobs like in two minutes.” Well, it’s been over two weeks, and those jobs aren’t anywhere close to being replaced, and that really does matter.
In Ohio, we stand with Lordstown. We stand with GM’s workers, and we stand with workers across Ohio. It’s horrible that they’re being attacked at this heartbreaking moment.
In Ohio, we stand with Lordstown. We stand with GM’s workers, and we stand with workers across Ohio. It’s horrible that they’re being attacked at this heartbreaking moment.
The closing of GM Lordstown will have a devastating ripple impact across northeast Ohio and the entire state.
According to Manufacturing Works, 43,000 direct and indirect jobs could be lost across the industrial Midwest because of the factory closure.
The Youngstown regional economy will take a $3 billion hit.
We’ve seen tough times in Ohio. But we are strong. We are resilient. We don’t give up, and we don’t attack one another. If the president thinks he can divide Ohioans, he is wrong. We are united.
The decision to shutter the Lordstown plant belongs to General Motors and General Motors alone. Blaming the workers and their elected representatives is just wrong.
The Lordstown plant was the number-one ranked production facility for all of GM.
The Chevy Cruze is still selling — but now they are made in Mexico instead of America.
The idea that the car or the workers are not productive is a lie.
The workers deserve the chance to prove themselves, and they certainly don’t deserve to be berated on Twitter.
General Motors got at least a $150 million windfall from the tax bill that was passed last year.
They took that tax cut and responded by cutting 14,000 American jobs.
Lawmakers, led by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, have a solution to help Ohio workers — the American Cars, American Jobs Act.
It will help level the playing field with foreign competition by making it more affordable for Americans to buy American-made cars and trucks and revoke the tax cut in the tax law that rewards companies sending jobs overseas.
We’ve also learned Trump is stealing $112 million from projects in Ohio at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton as well as smaller construction projects at Camp Ravenna, Mansfield, Toledo and Youngstown to build a vanity project for himself.
If we really want to Make America Great Again — we have to stop attacking American workers. We have to stop giving massive tax breaks that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas and destroy our communities.
You can’t be FOR America and AGAINST the American worker.
