{"id":1047515,"date":"2024-09-03T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1047515"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:10:03","slug":"vp-harris-backs-u-s-manufacturing-while-trump-oversaw-increased-offshoring-of-american-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vp-harris-backs-u-s-manufacturing-while-trump-oversaw-increased-offshoring-of-american-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Harris Backs U.S. Manufacturing, While Trump Oversaw Increased Offshoring of American Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Vice President Harris underlines her strong support for American manufacturing and keeping U.S. Steel American-owned and operated, <\/em>DNC Spokesperson Addy Toevs released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump has never been a friend of the labor movement. Now, his extreme Project 2025 agenda threatens to undermine unions and hike costs<\/a> for Pennsylvania families. In sharp contrast, Vice President Harris is an unwavering champion of American industry and workers. Her support for an American-owned and operated U.S. Steel is the latest example. As president, Donald Trump created new incentives for companies to ship Pennsylvanians\u2019 jobs overseas. A Harris-Walz administration will continue to build the economy from the bottom up and middle out. As president, Kamala Harris will work alongside the United Steelworkers, invest in U.S. manufacturing, and work to create good-paying union jobs to strengthen Pennsylvania\u2019s middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President Harris is an unfailing advocate for union workers and American manufacturing. Yesterday, she made that clear yet again as she vowed to pass the PRO Act and work alongside the United Steelworkers to keep U.S. Steel American-owned and operated. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: Harris backs US ownership of US Steel, in blow to takeover by Japanese company<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVice President Kamala Harris said Monday that US Steel should remain domestically owned, saying during a campaign stop<\/a> in Pittsburgh that it is \u2018vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarris\u2019 comments marked the first time she lent her voice to the dispute over the proposed sale of US Steel<\/a> to Nippon Steel, Japan\u2019s biggest steelmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The president mentioned it: US Steel is a historic American company, and it is vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies,\u2019 Harris said at the Labor Day event after being introduced by Joe Biden. \u2018And I couldn\u2019t agree more with President Biden, US Steel should remain American owned and American operated.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pennsylvania Capital-Star<\/a>: Harris and Biden campaign in Pittsburgh as presidential race enters the home stretch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarris also said she would pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide additional supports for workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBiden and Harris spoke at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Hall on Pittsburgh\u2019s South Side, appearing together on the campaign trail for the first time since he dropped his reelection bid in July and endorsed her candidacy for president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarris called Pittsburgh the \u2018cradle of the American labor movement,\u2019 and said the region was also shaping labor\u2019s future. \u2018Pittsburgh, together, we are fighting to build an economy that works for all working people.\u2019 […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDavid McCall, International president of the United Steelworkers, praised Harris\u2019 remarks in a statement Monday. \u2018Union workers built this nation, and our union is proud to support the toughest, most pro-worker candidate in this race: Vice President Kamala Harris,\u2019 McCall said. \u2018Today, she once again made it clear that she will always stand up for Steelworkers and have our backs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As president, Trump failed American workers and created new incentives for companies to ship Pennsylvania jobs overseas, and the offshoring of US jobs increased on his watch. Trump and Vance\u2019s Project 2025 agenda threatens to raise taxes on the middle class while gifting more giveaways to their billionaire allies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for American Progress<\/a>: \u201cProject 2025\u2019s Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes on the Middle Class and Cut Taxes for the Wealthy\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[In Project 2025], far-right extremist plans are outlined that raise taxes on low- and middle-income households to finance tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations. Project 2025\u2019s tax plan includes an \u2018intermediate tax reform\u2019 that includes changes to tax brackets and corporate tax cuts that would shift the tax burden toward middle-income households\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe shift toward a flat consumption tax while eliminating income taxes would lead to an average $5,900 tax increase for the middle 20 percent of households and an average $2 million tax cut for the top 0.1 percent. \u2026 Project 2025 does not stop at cutting taxes for wealthy individuals; it also proposes an array of tax cuts for corporations. \u2026 This would amount to a $24 billion tax cut for the Fortune 100, the 100 largest companies in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy:<\/a> Trump-GOP Tax Law Encourages Companies to Move Jobs Offshore\u2013and New Tax Cuts Won\u2019t Change That <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Trump-GOP tax law enacted in December 2017 creates clear incentives for American-based corporations to move operations and jobs abroad, including a zero percent tax rate on many profits generated offshore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump promised \u2018America First\u2019 would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic Policy Institute<\/a>: Unprecedented: <\/strong>The Trump NLRB\u2019s attack on workers\u2019 rights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnder the Trump administration, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has systematically rolled back workers\u2019 rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining with their employers, to the detriment of workers, their communities, and the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast Company<\/a>: JD Vance says he\u2019s pro-worker. Here\u2019s what he really believes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn 2020, Vance claimed that he was \u2018not a huge fan\u2019 of right-to-work laws, which make it significantly harder for workers to unionize across about half the states in the U.S. He has also denounced the growing reliance on \u2018cheaper labor,\u2019 which he says has depressed wages for American workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut Vance has also opposed such legislation as the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would address loopholes in labor law and expand protections for workers seeking to unionize. (Union leaders and prolabor lawmakers have spent years trying to get the bill passed.)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump\u2019s Watch\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cHow offshoring rolled along under Trump, who vowed to stop it\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump won the U.S. presidency four years ago, in part, by a promise to Midwest factory workers that he would stop companies like Schneider Electric SE from moving jobs out of the country. He didn\u2019t stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guardian<\/a>: \u201c\u2019He pulled the wool over our eyes\u2019: workers blame Trump for moving jobs overseas\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPromises to save US manufacturing and prevent American jobs moving abroad were a key part of Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign. But since Trump took office in January 2017, nearly 200,000 jobs have been moved overseas, based on Trade Adjustment Assistance certified petitions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Vice President Harris underlines her strong support for American manufacturing and keeping U.S. Steel American-owned and operated, DNC Spokesperson Addy Toevs released the following statement: \u201cDonald Trump has never been a friend of the labor movement. Now, his extreme Project 2025 agenda threatens to undermine unions and hike costs for Pennsylvania families. 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