Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 50
Bring back manufacturing jobs
Never delivered“[paraphrase] We're going to bring back manufacturing and the factories that left.”
- Promised
- , Speech at Alumisource, Monessen, Pennsylvania
- Re-promised
- 50 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Manufacturing employment ended the term down about 178,000 jobs, according to FactCheck.org. The sector entered a technical recession in 2019, contracting for consecutive quarters before the pandemic. PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020, finding no overall improvement for the sector.