Trump pledged to keep Carrier jobs in U.S.

Earlier in the year Carrier announced that they were going to move 1,400 jobs from their home in Indiana to Mexico because it was extremely cost effective. On Tuesday Carrier announced that they were going to keep 1,000 jobs in Indiana, which is a huge victory for Donald Trump because he promised that he will keep jobs in the United States. “The New York Times reported that Trump was planning to reiterate his campaign plan to lower taxes and reduce regulation on businesses while toning down his threats of tariffs on imported products from companies who move jobs out of the United States”. This is the second time Trump has claimed credit for a company’s decision to not move jobs across the border. The first one involved Ford, which wanted to move part of their production to Mexico. This has been extremely controversial because apparently Ford never planned on moving to part of production to Mexico in the first place. The plan was to shift production of a single model from Kentucky, to an undetermined location. At the end of the day I don’t think it matters who takes credit for this kind of stuff. If the jobs are staying in the United States that’s all that matters.