FACT CHECK: The Trump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda Will Destroy U.S. Manufacturing Jobs and Send American Jobs Back to China. Again. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump and JD Vance do nothing but repeat the same debunked lies about Vice President Harris’ tie-breaking vote to bring good-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Vance can’t defend Trump’s record of letting those jobs leave the country in the first place or his plans to send them abroad again during Trump’s day one dictatorship. 

FACT: Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote for the clean energy plan that “encouraged onshoring of clean energy industries,” and has created more than 330,000 jobs.

FACT: Clean energy jobs are growing at double the rate of overall jobs, and their unionization rates are higher than those of the broader energy industry. 

FACT: Trump’s policies would “devastate America’s growing electric vehicle industry” and allow China to consolidate control. America did not “just happen to fall behind China in the years after he killed our climate policies. America has fallen behind China in large part because Mr. Trump killed our climate policies.”

FACT: While Donald Trump was president, his hostility towards the clean energy industry allowed China to pull ahead in EV manufacturing. Trump “did not encourage EV production or seek to counter China’s big investment in the technology.”  Trump and Vance’s criticisms ignore “that many provisions in the IRA have sparked a manufacturing boom in the United States — also designed to counter China’s dominance in the green energy arena.”

FACT: Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would “end up helping China, economists say, by jeopardizing hundreds of billions of dollars in manufacturing investments that have already been made in the United States and sending that work back to other countries, including China.”

FACT: Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that Trump’s promise to repeal the clean energy plan “would be a blow to manufacturing.” … “China would certainly benefit.”

FACT: Despite his repeated lies about “saving” the U.S. auto industry, the U.S. auto industry lost more than 86,000 jobs under Donald Trump.  

FACT: Trump’s first-term attacks on clean energy cost Americans an estimated 1.1 million jobs; now Trump is plotting an “all-out war” on clean energy with a Project 2025 agenda that would destroy 1.7 million jobs and cause $320 billion a year in damage to the U.S. economy.