Major steel mill project in JD Vance’s hometown on a list of Trump administration cuts to manufacturing industry | CNN
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The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing industry. But his administration is planning to slash a key program that invests in some of the biggest manufacturing industries in the US, including in Vice President JD Vance’s hometown in the heart of the Rust Belt.

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The new furnaces — which run on climate-friendly hydrogen, natural gas and electricity instead of coal — would have extended the life of the plant and given the steel company a foot in the future.

But those grants, which would have created over 100 permanent jobs and 1,200 construction jobs in Middletown alone, are slated for termination under the Trump administration

Part of the reasoning behind the structure of the Inflation Reduction Act was that Republicans wouldn’t cut off their nose to spite their face. They turned out to have a lot more spite than expected.