Congressman Ro Khanna is raising the alarm over mass layoffs in the U.S. economy
resulting from the failed economic policies of Donald Trump,
including over 4,000 factory workers who lost their jobs this week due to firings or plant closures.
On Thursday, automaker Stellantis, citing conditions created by Trump’s tariffs,
announced temporary layoffs for 900 workers, represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW).
“The affected U.S. employees,” reported CNN, “work at five different Midwest plants: in Michigan and Indiana.
In a social media thread on Saturday night, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)
— a lawmaker who has been advocating loudly, including in books and in Congress, for an industrialization policy that would bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States
— posted a litany of other layoffs announced recently as part of the economic devastation and chaos unleashed by Trump
as well as conditions that reveal how vulnerable U.S. workers remain.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tariffs-mass-layoffs
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