The Trump administration’s tariff scheme appears less and less likely to bring manufacturing jobs back to U.S. shores.

Businesses across the country are crunching the numbers and realizing that, despite Donald Trump’s insistence, they can’t balance out his tariff hikes across the supply chain.

“Some manufacturers who had plans to open factories in the country say the new duties are only adding to the significant obstacles they already faced,” Bloomberg reported Friday.

That’s because the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there, requiring companies to import raw materials and factory equipment—which Trump’s tariffs have made unaffordable—from abroad.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    35·
    23 hours ago

    Trump may be incompetent but the architects of project 2025 are, unfortunately, not. Trump is merely their most useful idiot.

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
      16·
      22 hours ago

      Oh, they’re incompetent, too. They are just very effective at installing their incompetence into the government.

      • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
        6·
        10 hours ago

        The Heritage Foundation is not new; their last big project was Ronald Reagan, and they were very successful in destroying the economy in the long run. That also started us down this path that got us to Trump to begin with.

        Trump would never have happened if there wasn’t mass amounts of economic hardship.

        I think “evil” is a better word to describe them.

          • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
            7·
            9 hours ago

            Or if Florida didn’t rig the 2000 election for Bush, or if the Supreme Court never ruled that money = speech and corporations = people, or if Nixon didn’t snuff out the hippie movement with the War on Drugs, or if the FBI never killed MLK Jr. for him being a socialist, or if Ronald Reagan and Joe McCarthy were unsuccessful in their Red Scare movement in the 1950s, or if FDR didn’t compromise with capitalists and went full socialist instead.

            There are lots of things to point to.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 hours ago

        I really think it’s just not a plan, but a bunch of individual wishlists. It’s not that evil is incompetent but it’s a bunch of people each pursuing their own agenda, each using the orange fool to get what they want. The part where we may get lucky is each is too egotistical to work together, and Trump is to weak a leader to make them all head in the same directions.

        It’s not a bunch of incompetent fools, is a herd of evil cats