Trump official admits US workers won't get jobs in new factories spurred by tariff strategy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 06 April 2025 21:39 BST


Donald Trump’s secretary of Commerce seemingly admitted on Sunday that US workers would not see long-lost manufacturing jobs return as a result of the president’s new tariff strategy, which places duties on nearly all US imports.

Howard Lutnick appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday and promised that “trillions” of dollars would flow into the US in the form of new investments in America’s manufacturing sector. Margaret Brennan, the show’s host, questioned whether those factories would be “automated”, as Lutnick had said previously.

Pointing out that the construction of new factories “takes years” and will do nothing to bring down costs of consumer goods for Americans in the short term, Brennan added: “You said that robots are going to fill those jobs. So those aren't union worker jobs.”

“It’s automated factories,” Lutnick conceded, while promising that American workers would build and “operate” the factories brought to US shores in the coming months and years.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/howard-lutnick-trump-tariffs-factories-b2728463.html

[NJCher]

1. Please

Do go on. Tell about the guaranteed income part.

[Karasu]

2. And there you have it. Of course, if you're going to go all-in on automation, you either give everyone a true, living

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UBI for life or you risk a revolution. The choice is theirs.

These fascists think they can have their fucking cake and eat it too. They want people to lose their jobs as an excuse to "save" money by automating and blowing our budget on their AI technocracy, but they also talk about doing crazy shit like extending the fucking work week (which isn't at all viable when AI is already on track to replace so much of the work force) and rolling back child labor laws, all while everything gets more expensive for all eternity, wages never go up, and corporations get to pay people fucking pennies without any government regulation or oversight. It isn't remotely feasible to do all this shit at once. Make up your fucking minds already, you fucking loons.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Hear!! Hear!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. This is an opportunity for Democrats to reconnect with workers. Opportunity for unions too. . . . nt

[mdbl]

5. If you can get them to stop listening to dumb podcasts

like Joe Rogan, etc. They are inundated with stupidity disguised as machismo daily.

[BarbD]

4. Isn't Lutnick the idiot who claims I wouldn't miss my Social Security?

Then, of course, robots don't need health insurance or social security.

[IronLionZion]

11. They'll stop your payments. If you call them, then you're fraud.

If you don't call, no more payments. So either way, no more payments for you.

It's diabolical.

[modrepub]

6. Non Sequitur

Trump is trying to rectify the trade deficits we currently have. But other countries used their trade surplus to invest in US stocks, real estate , corporate bonds, US treasuries et cetra.

Now that cycle is being broken and other countries will be looking to invest any money they do have after this market carnage somewhere else. That leaves financing using American savings. How’s that going to work when most folks are struggling and the oligarchs are going to loose 20%+ of their working capital (if not their heads)

The stupid is strong in this country.

[Alice B.]

7. Please keep putting this man on national television. He can't lose.

Nt

[Javaman]

8. of course they would be automated if they are ever built to begin with. I have my doubts. nt

[Bengus81]

15. It wasn't 6-7 years ago Fat Hoover was saying the same thing about the Foxconn plant

in Wisconsin. Hell..we were going to be building entire iPhone's from top to bottom. Total LIES,total BS. Turned into a data center or some such shit and taxpayers in Wisconsin are on the hook for it all.

It was a CON alright............

[Javaman]

16. yup followed that story till it's inglorious end. complete grift.

and as usual the only losers, as usual, were the people who live in the immediate area.

the mayor was a complete halfwit all in maga moron who promised something at a very high cost to the citizens, that the city will never ever recoup.

[riversedge]

18. Then Gov Walker pushed highly!!

[Abstractartist]

10. With every word

With every word these “experts”, followers, and so called leaders utter, they are slowly placing targets on themselves. I’m thinking there is going to be a Nuremberg type trial in a few years… and with all these shits so old and fat, and/or spreading hate, disinformation and discontent, perhaps many may not be “working” for too long.

[Lonestarblue]

12. Lutnick is turning out to be an utter moron.

[wolfie001]

14. He reminds me of a 1- or 2-episode character on 'Seinfeld'

A bit funny but forgettable.

[wolfie001]

13. His voters are the true suckers and losers

Leopard eat face.

[riversedge]

17. "It's automated factories," Lutnick conceded, while promising that American workers would build and "operate" the factor

“It’s automated factories,” Lutnick conceded, while promising that American workers would build and “operate” the factories brought to US shores in the coming months and years.

[Dulcinea]

19. The factory jobs of the future...

...will go to people with IT & computer science degrees. Factories will be run using robots & AI, not high school graduates. Those days are gone forever.