He went on to say that, “In effect Trump is reminding (Carrier owner United Technologies) that the company benefits immensely from USA: economic size and stability; military spending; legal system; etc”.
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Last summer, after Trump said the USA might revisit NATO’s policy of defending its allies against possible Russian aggression if he became president, Stavridis tweeted: “Trump on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: deeply risky will dismay our closest Allies but great cheer in Kremlin: I can hear Vladimir Putin chortling from here”.
“Are you for the tariff, though?” “He doesn’t like to be challenged, and I challenged him”. He has also said that the U.S. is going to “reduce taxes and regulations for businesses”. A “thousand Hoosiers have certainty in their jobs and in their futures going into this Christmas season because of the leadership of Donald Trump”, Vice President-elect Mike Pence bragged to NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday, while Trump himself gave a typically adjective-laden speech layering all sides of the deal, once accomplished, with one superlative after another. “But that’s a belief in the free market”.
Donnelly also asked the Republican-controlled Senate Finance Committee to amend legislation already in process to create tough penalties and lucrative incentives to reverse the flow of American companies moving jobs overseas.
The union president slammed by Donald Trump on Twitter challenged the president-elect Thursday to back up his claim that a deal to discourage Carrier Corp. from closing an IN factory would save 1,100 American jobs. Tom Carper of DE, laughed and said they wouldn’t comment on the matter.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick fast-food executive Andrew Puzder to lead the Labor Department.
Rather than berating, threatening or bribing businesses to stay, the Trump administration would do much better to focus on the taxes, regulations and other policies that unnecessarily raise the costs of doing business and prompt companies to seek out greener pastures in the first place.
“I was talking about Carrier like all other companies from here on in”, Mr Trump said. United Technologies still plans to send 700 factory jobs from Huntington, Ind., to Monterrey, Mexico.
In his roughly 30 years as a union worker, Jones said he’s received a range of violent threats, including warnings that he’ll be shot or that his home will be burned down.
The president-elect has promised to renegotiate NAFTA and pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries that Pence originally supported. Apparently, he realized, Trump was saying he inspired the deal.
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“When the United States enters into these agreements with multiple countries, accountability is very hard and getting out of them is very hard”, Pence said. President Obama used Cash for Clunkers to pay back the UAW buddies who helped him get elected and the stimulus to help specific industries.
