Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal says that new life has suddenly
Speaker 1: come to Granite City, Illinois. Now. Two years ago, under Obama,
Speaker 1: the United States Steel Corporation scaled down operations. Fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: workers were laid off. Those layoffs had a ripple effect.
Speaker 1: Other businesses suffered to like companies that sold work boots
Speaker 1: or delivered lunches to hungry employees. Within a year of
Speaker 1: US Steel scaling back, twenty six other businesses closed. Granite City,
Speaker 1: population thirty thousand, was crushed. But then President Trump announced
Speaker 1: he was imposing tariffs on foreign steel imports, on products
Speaker 1: made by companies that are often highly subsidized by foreign governments,
Speaker 1: and suddenly things changed. US Steel announced that one of
Speaker 1: the furnaces they'd shut down would be fired up again.
Speaker 1: Five hundred workers were called back to work, some as
Speaker 1: early as this week. Average salary is close to sixty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Meanwhile, in The Washington Post, Katrina Van den
Speaker 1: Huvel urged readers not to be fooled by Trump's tariffs
Speaker 1: because he's running a con. It's typical left wing bs
Speaker 1: written by somebody who never spent a day in her
Speaker 1: life at a steel mill or worrying about paying the
Speaker 1: bills after being laid off from that good steel mill job. Katrina,
Speaker 1: don't worry that people of Granite City and other towns
Speaker 1: like it know exactly who's running the con and it
Speaker 1: isn't President Trump. It's all of you people on the
Speaker 1: left who've been telling these people you're looking out for
Speaker 1: him when you don't care a whit about them.