President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports are a big win for American workers and manufacturing — just like they were during President Trump’s first term.
“We’re in favor of the tariffs because we make everything in America. Our factories are in Baltimore, Indiana, and Michigan. We use American steel and American workers … Our challenge is that we’re competing against governments, like the Chinese government,” Drew Greenblatt, CEO of Baltimore-based Marlin Steel Wire Products, said on CBS Morning News. “If we have a fair and level playing field, our American factory workers will thrive and prosper. We can really pull people from poverty, bring them into the middle class.”
“Our goal is that we’re going to sell millions more dollars so we have to hire many more people. If we do that, we’re going to hire them at very good jobs with very good pay,” Greenblatt told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “There’s going to be an overwhelming surge of hiring in America as things level out, as American factories ramp up … This is a very exciting time for the American manufacturing worker.”