FACT CHECK: Trump Lies in MI, Plans to Destroy U.S. Manufacturing and Send American Jobs Back to China. Again. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump just can’t help himself. Today, in Saginaw, Michigan, he repeated the same debunked lies about Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote to bring good-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Trump is lying because he can’t defend his record of letting those jobs leave the country in the first place, let alone his plans to send them abroad again during his 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: A recent University of Michigan study of current EV plants found that EV production requires three times as many employees as traditional auto plants. Investing in EV production creates good-paying manufacturing jobs. 

FACT: General Motors’ executive vice president for manufacturing says that EV manufacturing will require as many employees as gas-powered vehicles.

FACT: While Donald Trump was president, his hostility towards the clean energy industry allowed China to pull ahead in EV and clean energy manufacturing. 

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

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: The New York Times, Politifact, Factcheck.org, and NPR agree: there is no gas car ban. The Los Angeles Times headlined their editorial on the topic: “Trump and oil companies are lying to you about electric cars to serve their own interests.”

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

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