AFL-CIO Press Clips: Washington Monthly: Trump’s Manufacturing Record Stinks, Newest Data Shows
Berry Craig
His trade wars backfired. Jobs are leaving the U.S. And Obama has a much better claim to be a friend of workers
By ROBERT SHAPIRO
To hear President Trump describe it, “the manufacturing sector is booming,” and “we’ve witnessed one manufacturing miracle after another.” These paeons to his own success with manufacturing are the economic equivalent to his claims that he has masterfully handled the pandemic. In fact, under his presidency, foreign outsourcing by U.S. manufacturers rose frighteningly while the number of U.S. manufacturing workers fell sharply. Under Barack Obama, U.S. manufacturers cut back substantially on outsourcing, and manufacturing jobs at home rose sharply.