El director de Respuesta Rápida del Comité Nacional Demócrata, Alex Floyd, emitió la siguiente declaración en respuesta al “rally”de JD Vance en Middletown, Ohio:

“En caso de que necesitaran más pruebas de que JD Vance antepone a Donald Trump y sus simpatizantes super ricos a las familias trabajadoras, basta con ver cuán dispuesto está a impulsar la agenda MAGAnomics de Trump que dejó a miles de habitantes de Ohio abandonados. El viaje de Vance a Ohio hoy es un claro recordatorio de cómo Trump rompió sus promesas a los trabajadores: presidiendo la deslocalización de empleos, el cierre de fábricas y miles de trabajadores de Ohio perdiendo sus empleos, algo que luego dijo que “realmente no importa”. La fórmula Trump-Vance está reafirmando su apuesta por una agenda extrema del Proyecto 2025 que pondría a los más ricos en primer lugar a costa de la clase media”.

RECORDATORIO: Donald Trump incumplió repetidamente sus promesas a los trabajadores en Ohio y en todo el país. Trump presid ió sobre el cierre de fábricas y la pérdida de empleos en el sector manufacturero, lo que, según dijo, “realmente no importa”.

Trump después de que GM decidió eliminar más de 14.000 puestos de trabajo, incluido el de la planta de Lordstown en Ohio: “Realmente no importa porque Ohio está bajo mi liderazgo”.

CNN: “Trump told GM workers he could save their plant, but it’s gone for good”

“As details emerged Thursday about the tentative United Auto Workers agreement with General Motors, one thing became clear: The shuttered GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that President Donald Trump hoped to save will stay closed for good.

“The President cast himself in 2016 as a savior for workers, taking the unusual tack of publicly pressuring corporations like Carrier into changing their plans for moving or changing production. But despite months of demands, Trump has been unable to get GM to keep jobs at Lordstown.

“Manufacturing activity in September [of 2019] fell to its lowest point in a decade. The Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, which Trump flipped, have all lost manufacturing jobs since June. Many of those jobs have moved overseas.”

Associated Press: “Lordstown’s economy can hardly be described as booming.  Trump appeared on the South Lawn driveway with a Lordstown Motors Endurance pickup, touting its technology and boasting about the area’s comeback, which lost hundreds of jobs when GM closed the plant that made the Chevrolet Cruze compact car. Lordstown Motors bought the plant with financing help from GM.  

“But the unemployment rate in Trumbull County, where the village of about 3,000 people is located, was 11.4% in August, the third-highest in Ohio. It was 6.6% in March 2019, when GM closed the factory, and it rose to 6.8% in February 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic took hold.”

Wall Street Journal: “President Trump’s trade war against China didn’t achieve the central objective of reversing a U.S. decline in manufacturing, economic data show, despite tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods to discourage imports.”

Detroit Free Press: “Trump, tweets couldn’t save U.S. auto jobs in 2017”

MLive: “On the 2016 campaign trail in Warren, Trump pledged ‘you won’t lose one plant’ if he were elected. GM announced last year it would end production at five North American plants.”

New York Times: “After Years of Growth, Automakers Are Cutting U.S. Jobs”

Bloomberg: “The Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump’s Watch”

Washington Post: “Trump promised ‘America First’ would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.”

JD Vance respalda la extrema y costosa agenda del Proyecto 2025 de Trump, que incluye dar regalos fiscales a los más ricos (otra vez) a expensas de los trabajadores estadounidenses y corre el riesgo de sobrecargar la inflación.

Vance: “He revisado mucho el [Proyecto 2025]. Hay algunas buenas ideas ahí”.

Vance sobre el plan de Trump que aumentaría los aranceles para eliminar el impuesto sobre la renta de los estadounidenses más ricos y aumentar los costos para las familias trabajadoras: “Esta es una propuesta fascinante y podríamos hablar un rato sobre ella”.

Univision: “El plan republicano de recorte de impuestos, que promete simplificar el proceso de declaración anual, favorecerá desproporcionadamente al 1% de la población que más ingresos posee”

Trump: “Todos ustedes son personas que tienen mucho dinero… Son increíblemente ricos… Les daremos recortes de impuestos”.

Vanity Fair: “Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term: Report”

CBS News: “Two years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind”

The Guardian: “Donald Trump’s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”

Axios: “Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are jumping into the presidential campaign with a stark warning: Former President Trump’s plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy if he wins in November.”

Proyecto 2025: “La tasa del impuesto sobre la renta empresarial debería reducirse al 18 por ciento”.

The Atlantic: “Trump’s Plan to Supercharge Inflation”

Vance se opone a la legislación que protege a los sindicatos y se opone firmemente a los trabajadores.

Politico: “Vance has consistently opposed the PRO Act, the ‘holy grail of pro-union labor reform’ that organized labor and its allies on the Hill have been fighting for over two years to get passed. … Vance’s skepticism of the PRO Act is part of a more fundamental skepticism that he harbors toward organized labor.”

Fast Company: “Vance also voted in favor of a resolution to strike down the NLRB’s updated joint-employer rule, which would have given workers more leverage when organizing at companies—like Amazon—that rely heavily on third-party contractors, by forcing both employers to participate in labor negotiations.”

Bajo Trump, Estados Unidos perdió decenas de miles de empleos en el sector manufacturero, un hecho que el equipo de Trump se negó a admitir como cierto.

Politico: “Asked for comment, a Trump spokesperson sent a long list of the former president’s economic accomplishments, saying his policies ‘created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs’ and helped ‘bring back supply chains from overseas.’”

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Cuando Trump dejó el cargo, había más de 170.000 empleos manufactureros menos que cuando comenzó.

Trump fue uno de los presidentes más anti trabajadores y antisindicales en la historia de Estados Unidos: ha dicho que los sindicatos están formados por “gente que se llevan sus cuotas” y que si pudiera elegir, acabaría con los trabajadores sindicalizados.

Trump: “Conozco los sindicatos. Son gente que se llevan sus cuotas. Sólo quieren sus cuotas y no les importa nada mas”.

New York Times: “Does [Trump] support unions? He has had ‘great success’ in New York building with unions and also in Florida without unions. ‘If I had my choice,’ he said, ‘I think I’d take it without.’”

Associated Press: “During Trump’s presidency, the National Labor Relations Board reversed several key rulings that made it easier for small unions to organize, strengthened the bargaining rights of franchise workers and provided protection against anti-union measures for employees.

“The Supreme Court’s conservative majority — including three justices that Trump nominated — overturned a decades-old pro-union decision in 2018 involving fees paid by government workers. The justices in 2021 rejected a California regulation giving unions access to farm property so they could organize workers.”

Trump pasó cuatro años abandonando a los trabajadores y su apoyo de los hogares sindicales cayó.

Bloomberg Law: “Biden won 57% of union households nationwide compared with 40% for Trump, according to Edison Research, which produces exit polling for major news organizations. That was double Hillary Clinton’s eight-point edge with union households in 2016.”

Axios: “Trump only lost union households by eight points (51%-43%) in 2016 … But Biden reclaimed those states in 2020 while winning union households by 16 points (56%-40%), according to exit polling.”