Trump announces steel tariffs double to 50%; Steel Irvin Works GM: grandchildren good-paying jobs

Trump announces next week tariffs on steel imports will double to 50% — secure the steel industry in US POTUS Trump announces that next week, tariffs on steel imports will double to 50% — “which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States.”

U.S. Steel Irvin Works GM Kurt Barshick: years later & our children, great-grandchildren good-paying jobs all BC of Trump U.S. Steel Irvin Works GM Kurt Barshick: “I can stand here years later and think about our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren that are going to have family-sustaining, good-paying jobs — all because of President Trump.”

U.S. Steel Irvin Works Plant Manager Don German: first-generation U.S. Steel worker thank you from the bottom of my heart U.S. Steel Irvin Works Plant Manager Don German: “I’m a first-generation U.S. Steel worker … I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Trump: 124 years … city of Pittsburgh used to produce more steel than most entire countries, decades of Washington betrayals POTUS Trump: “For more than 124 years, the men and women of U.S. Steel have poured the molten metal and forged the tempered beams that built America’s railroads, bridged mighty rivers, and raised up towering skyscrapers… The city of Pittsburgh used to produce more steel than most entire countries… but our Steelworkers know better than anyone, decades of Washington betrayals and incompetence, and stupidity, and corruption cost this region over 100,000 steel jobs… When I came into office 8 years ago, I proclaimed a simple but crucially important principle: If you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country.”

Trump announces steel tariffs double to 50%; Steel Irvin Works GM: great-grandchildren good-paying jobs