More car plants being built? President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs on foreign goods aims to persuade foreign manufacturers to produce their goods in U.S. factories and employ Americans. During a recent interview with the conservative network Newsmax, Trump said this effort had already produced res…
More car plants being built? President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs on foreign goods aims to persuade foreign manufacturers to produce their goods in U.S. factories and employ Americans. During a recent interview with the conservative network Newsmax, Trump said this effort had already produced results. "We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen anything like it, and they're going up fast," Trump said March 26. That’s Mostly False. The White House cited announcements of major U.S. investments by Hyundai, Honda and Stellantis since Trump took office Jan. 20. With one exception, these were reallocations of investments at existing facilities, not "plants being built." Building a plant, or even increasing production at an existing plant, can take years. Automotive manufacturing construction increased substantially under Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.
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More car plants being built? President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs on foreign goods aims to persuade foreign manufacturers to produce their goods in U.S. factories and employ Americans. During a recent interview with the conservative network Newsmax, Trump said this effort had already produced results. "We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen anything like it, and they're going up fast," Trump said March 26. That’s Mostly False. The White House cited announcements of major U.S. investments by Hyundai, Honda and Stellantis since Trump took office Jan. 20. With one exception, these were reallocations of investments at existing facilities, not "plants being built." Building a plant, or even increasing production at an existing plant, can take years. Automotive manufacturing construction increased substantially under Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.