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The President-elect Needs a Real Manufacturing Policy

December 12, 2016

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The president-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump, says he’s gonna call every company that’s planning on offshoring its production, and thereby eliminating American factory jobs.

Or so he says. He said this to his incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus, in front of a room full of reporters there interviewing him for Time magazine, which has named him as its Person of the Year:

“Hey, Reince, I want to get a list of companies that have announced they’re leaving. I can call them myself. Five minutes apiece. They won’t be leaving. O.K.?”

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