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Michigan lost all of it's manufacturing jobs after the trade deals that Biden supported
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It is noted that Michigan actually lost auto jobs in 2019, even before coronavirus arrived and caused even more losses.
More auto jobs were created here during the Obama administration, the article goes on
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Donald Trump
stated on September 10, 2020 in a speech at a rally in Michigan:
"After the last administration nearly killed the US auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry ... We brought you a lot of car plants… (and Japan) “announced five car companies are coming to Michigan.”
President Donald Trump acknowledges a supporter following a campaign rally at MBS International Airport in Freeland, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
By Jon GreenbergSeptember 11, 2020
Trump’s Michigan car industry claims veer off course
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- The Bush and Obama administrations helped save the auto industry.
- Fiat Chrysler is building a new plant in Michigan.
- Auto industry jobs fell by about 3,000 in 2019.
- No Japanese car makers announced plans to expand in Michigan.
If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump did not.
At a rally in Freeland, Mich., Trump described great success in reviving automotive jobs.
"After the last administration nearly killed the U.S. auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry," he said Sept. 10. "We brought you a lot of car plants."
And he went on to say that he wrangled a promise in a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for Japanese companies to expand in the U.S.
"The next day they announced five car companies are coming to Michigan," Trump told the crowd.
There’s nothing fully correct in any of that. Japan didn’t announce five companies coming to Michigan. Trump didn’t save the auto industry. And he didn’t bring a lot of car plants to the state — the most he can claim is one.
That one is a Fiat Chryler factory that will build Jeep SUVs in Detroit, on the site of an idled engine plant. It’s due to open in 2021. That is part of a package of investments in five other Fiat Chrysler plants in the state.
"Trump can count it as a new plant because it closed back in 2013 before he became president," said automobile industry researcher James Rubenstein at Ohio’s Miami University.
But when Trump said that he saved the auto industry, he left out that total auto industry employment in Michigan dropped by about 3,000 in 2019. That was after a steady rise since 2010, when the major U.S. automakers began to recover from the recession and their restructurings. The coronavirus-induced economic slump this year brought more job losses, but the declines took place before the virus arrived.
As for the previous administration nearly killing the industry, the evidence points to the opposite. In 2008 and 2009, intervention by the Bush and Obama administrations pulled the auto and auto parts makers back from the brink of collapse. Under the Obama administration, General Motors and Chrysler went through quick, taxpayer-financed bankruptcy reorganizations orchestrated by a federal task force and the U.S. Treasury, and both emerged from the Great Recession to add jobs and production capacity.Trump’s false claims about Michigan’s car industry
If you’re going to talk about the car industry in Michigan, it helps to get the facts right. President Donald Trump didwww.politifact.com