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The Germans Are Right. Workforce Training is Vital to Manufacturing Job Creation.

But President Trump’s budget proposal would cut such programs.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel came to Washington on Friday to meet with President Donald Trump for the first time. You probably already know how it went.

Yeah. It was awkward.

While her public appearances with Trump didn’t go so great, it appears that a bit of progress was made during at least one White House meeting. Perhaps knowing Trump would want to talk trade and job creation, Merkel brought along the chief executives of three of Germany’s top manufacturers — industrial giant Siemens AG, automaker BMW AG and auto supplier Schaeffler AG — to share with Trump some ideas for growing U.S. industry.

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