Despite the promises of strengthening the US manufacturing industry, the Trump administration would have planned to reduce a key program which is investing in some of the largest manufacturing industries in the United States, including in the hometown of JD Vance in Middletown, Ohio.
Donald Trump seeks to reduce a subsidy of $ 500 million from the Biden administration which was planned for Cleveland-Cliffs, a steel manufacturing giant in the American rust belt, according to CNN reports. The subsidy was intended to help the company upgrade its aging high stoves, so they would be powered by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity instead of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.
The internal administration documents obtained by CNN would have established intentions to reduce these subsidies, which would have created more than 100 permanent jobs and 1,200 construction jobs. Sources have told CNN that representatives of the “Government Department of Efficiency” had been involved in the decision of the funding programs to be reduced.
Marcy Kaptur, the Ohio representative, told CNN in a press release: “An unaduminated billionaire who has made his big fortune off the government contracts should not be able to unilaterally stop these programs”, referring to Elon Musk, of which Dog has continuously reduced funding and jobs through the federal government.
When the subsidy was announced for the first time, it was greeted by excitement among residents and unions, promising new jobs and a program more favorable to climate.
“It was like a miracle, a prayer replied that we were not going to be left to die on the vineyard,” said Michael Bailey, who worked at the factory for 30 years, in The Guardian.
Trump has long been a fan of coal, and the US vice-president called the legislation on clean energy as a “green scam”. When Trump won the election in November of last year, those who worked in the manufacturing industry of Ohio and the defenders of the climate immediately feared that the promised subsidy was never delivered.
“It is not surprising that he is now threatening to empty an investment of $ 500 million in American manufacturing in his own hometown,” said Pete Jones, director of the quick response at Climate Power.
“Vance wrote a book on economic difficulties in his hometown, and now he has 900 new pages from the Dangerous Agenda of Trump 2025 project to worsen the problem so that the great oil can take advantage.”
