All posts tagged "Manufacturing"

President Donald Trump has promised to bring Americans more manufacturing jobs, but experts warn that could backfire over a talent shortage.

New factories are expanding across the U.S. and manufacturing production is expected to ramp up by 2026 as new locations open and companies are enticed to invest under the Trump administration's tax legislation, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argues. But that might not guarantee there are enough workers to do the work in what has been vowed to be a "Golden Age," according to a Washington Post report published Friday.

Some skeptics claim that not only are there not enough skilled workers, but spending to bring in the factories is also lagging after Trump stopped the clean-energy subsidies from the Biden administration. Those subsidies helped to encourage these investments, "and many observers have doubts that all of the new foreign investment the president claims from his recent trade deals will ultimately materialize."...

President Donald Trump posted to social media on Wednesday encouraging manufacturers to move their plants to the United States in keeping with his economic goal of reviving local industry.

"This is a GREAT time to move your COMPANY into the United States of America, like Apple, and so many others, in record numbers, are doing," Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday. "ZERO TARIFFS, and almost immediate Electrical/Energy hook ups and approvals. No Environmental Delays. DON’T WAIT, DO IT NOW!"

But some of the president's supporters on Truth Social begged Trump to be "realistic" in implementing his economic policies....

Even though one of the goals of President Donald Trump 's trade war is to revive U.S. manufacturing, his administration is slashing a key program meant to help modernize plants across the country — including in Vice President JD Vance's hometown of Middletown, Ohio.

New reporting from CNN says the Trump administration has frozen $6.3 billion in Biden-era grant programs that would have allowed large industrial companies to upgrade their equipment. In the meantime, Elon Musk's DOGE will decide what it will allocate, if anything, to companies like "steel giant" Cleveland-Cliffs.

According to CNN, the company was slated to receive a $500 million grant to upgrade its blast furnaces....

Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign hats that were made in a repressive country still found their way out on the campaign trail last week even after the Republican presidential candidate said he’d stop distributing them.

According to a Raw Story source who requested anonymity to protect their job, “Truth. Vote Vivek.” hats were handed out as recently as last Wednesday at a campaign event in Iowa. And Ramaswamy posted a video on X on Saturday showing him personally putting the black baseball cap on a supporter.

Each was several days after Raw Story broke the news that Ramaswamy’s black baseball caps were manufactured in Myanmar, a country rife with human rights atrocities and led by a military junta that has close ties with China — a country with which Ramaswamy is campaigning to cut dependence. ...

More than half the solar system’s planets will align Monday in a rarely seen spectacle, arcing across a corner of the night sky. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus will parade across the sky, accompanied by the moon and a possible star cluster. While the scenario will be visible to the naked eye, astronomers recommend breaking out the binoculars or a telescope for a more detailed view. The planets will be arrayed across the western horizon in an arc about 20 to 25 minutes after Monday’s sunset, according to Space.com, starting with Mercury and Jupiter. However, twilight’s brightness coul......

New telescope imagery suggests that stars can survive encounters with black holes, a phenomenon that has been modeled but seldom observed, astronomers say. Using an X-ray telescope orbiting the Earth, astronomers peered 1 billion light-years into deep space and observed black holes partially destroying the same stars over and over, according to the European Space Agency. “At first, we were absolutely puzzled,” astronomer Thomas Wevers stated in an agency news release. “We had to go back to the drawing board to assess all the possible options to explain the observed behavior.” When a star veers......