Manufacturers show their products on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, July 15, 2019, at the Made in America Product Showcase. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
During his 2016, 2020 and 2024 campaigns, Donald Trump promised a renaissance in manufacturing jobs in the United States.
But according to a factory in Upstate New York, the second Trump Administration's policies are making it more difficult, not less, to create manufacturing jobs.
The factory is Bitzer Scroll Inc., which manufactures electric heat pumps in DeWitt, New York (a Syracuse suburb). Syracuse.com's Mark Weiner reports that the factory "may cut back its expansion plans after President Donald Trump's administration canceled a $5 million grant to help pay for the project."
On October 1, the Trump-era Department of Energy announced that it was terminating grants totaling almost $8 billion for 223 green energy projects in 16 different states — and one of those grants was for Bitzer Scroll.
Russell Vought, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and a key architect of the controversial Project 2025, tweeted, "Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled. More info to come from @ENERGY. The projects are in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA."
In response, liberal firebrand and former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann posted, "Thanks for being pro-extinction-of-mankind. Good call, Baldy."
According to John Allcott, Bitzer Scroll's vice president of North American operations, the Trump Administration's policies are making it harder to do business in the U.S.
Allcott told Syracuse.com, "It impacts us significantly. It would just be far harder to finance the expansion. We'd probably end up dropping some components of the project, and that hurts all around."
According to Allcott, Trump's tariffs are significantly adding to the company's overhead.
Allcott told Syracuse.com, "The whole thing of Trump bringing jobs back to America is completely running in reverse for us. It's just killing us…. It's not an easy time right now. If I was a board member right now at Bitzer, I might be saying it doesn't make any sense to manufacture in America."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is highly critical of Trump's manufacturing policies as well. The veteran senator recently said, "Instead of playing politics with the shutdown, President Trump should be working on bipartisan solutions to lower Americans' costs and create jobs."
Read the full Syracuse.com article at this link.