{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-kelly-press-trump-officials-to-explain-damage-to-us-manufacturing-sector", "Warren, Kelly Press Trump Officials to Explain Damage to U.S. Manufacturing Sector", "2026-06-23", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "Senate", "MA", "Elizabeth Warren", "W000817", "www.warren.senate.gov", "warren", "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Warren, Kelly Press Trump Officials to Explain Damage to U.S. Manufacturing Sector\n\nTrump admin has repeatedly \u2014 and falsely \u2014 claimed that manufacturing is \u201croaring back\u201d and that investments are up\n\nTrump\u2019s tariffs have led to tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs disappearing\n\nText of Letter (PDF)\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) wrote to Secretary of Commerce (Commerce) Howard Lutnick, Secretary of the Treasury (Treasury) Scott Bessent, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, asking them to explain the disappearance of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs under the Trump administration, despite President Trump\u2019s promise of a \u201cmanufacturing boom.\u201d\n\n\u201cPresident Trump promised us that his chaotic, across-the-board tariffs\u2014paid for by Americans\u2014would yield a \u2018manufacturing boom\u2019...But no \u2018boom\u2019 has materialized\u2014in fact, during President Trump\u2019s term, the \u2018blue-collar jobs boom\u2019 has been a blue-collar bust,\u201d wrote the senators.\n\nPresident Trump repeatedly claimed foreign companies would \u201ceat\u201d his tariffs and that corporate importers would simply absorb the costs. Instead, those costs were passed on to consumers, driving up prices for American families and small businesses. In fact, President Trump\u2019s trade policies have cost families an average of $1,700, and estimates indicate that American households will end up paying for 95 percent of the President\u2019s tariffs.\n\n\u201c[T]ariffs are an important economic tool to level the playing field for U.S. workers and reshore key industries, but they must be employed with careful consideration, as part of a broader industrial strategy,\u201d wrote the senators.\n\nSince President Trump\u2019s announcement of sweeping tariffs on nearly all trading partners in April 2025, nearly 100,000 manufacturing jobs have disappeared. Additionally, spending on construction in the manufacturing sector has declined steadily in each month since he took office. President Trump\u2019s war in Iran has led to further construction delays through rising fuel costs and disruptions in global supply chains.\n\nPresident Trump claimed tariffs would bring jobs back to U.S. soil, but corporations continue to move manufacturing jobs abroad. Even Trump allies like hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, a staunch defender of tariffs, recently announced he will close his brass instrument manufacturing plant in Ohio and move around 150 jobs to China. Whirlpool, another defender of President Trump\u2019s tariffs, has cut nearly 500 U.S. jobs since last year\u2019s tariffs announcements, while expanding their operations in Mexico.\n\n\u201cThis set of facts reveals the truth: that President Trump\u2019s disastrous trade and economic policies have hurt American manufacturing, breaking the President\u2019s promises to workers and the public,\u201d concluded the senators.\n\nThe lawmakers asked the officials to explain the increasing trade deficit, explain the administration\u2019s repeated lies about a \u201cmanufacturing boom,\u201d and provide evidence of increased manufacturing investments by July 6, 2026.\n\nSenator Warren has led the fight to protect American workers from the Trump administration\u2019s disastrous trade agenda:\n\nIn June 2026, Senator Warren (D-Mass.) released a new report titled \u201c10 Ways President Trump Has Hurt American Workers,\u201d detailing how President Trump has broken his promises to workers.\n\nIn April 2026, Senator Warren (D-Mass.) pressed U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the Trump administration\u2019s using tariffs to help Big Tech evade regulations that keep users safe \u2014 all while these tariffs jack up prices for American families and further decimate the manufacturing industry.\n\nIn February 2026, at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Warren (D-Mass.) called on the Trump Administration to use the upcoming joint review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to strengthen the agreement\u2019s protections for American workers and consumers\u2014rather than as an opportunity to secure giveaways for corporations and billionaires. President Trump has said that his across-the-board tariffs would create \u201cmillions and millions of new manufacturing jobs\u201d and restore U.S. manufacturing to its former glory. Instead, the United States has lost over 70,000 manufacturing jobs over the last year.\n\nIn December 2025, Senators Warren (D-Mass.), Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.), and Smith (D-Minn.) wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer urging him to publish a complete written report outlining the administration\u2019s objectives for U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) renegotiations, and reveal whether giant corporations had influenced those trade priorities.\n\nIn June 2025, Senator Warren (D-Mass.) led members of the Senate Democratic Caucus in writing to the Secretary of the Department of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, urging the department to preserve President Biden\u2019s expansion of the overtime threshold.\n\nIn February 2025, at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Mr. Jamieson Greer, then-nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, on his vision for Trump\u2019s trade policy. Mr. Greer agreed with Senator Warren that large corporations have outsized influence on trade deals and that U.S. trade policy needs to ensure \u201cAmerican businesses and American workers [are] prioritized,\u201d and that any exemption program \u201cneeds to be transparent and have the rules outlined.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-24T06:25:30Z", "2026-06-24T06:26:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-kelly-press-trump-officials-to-explain-damage-to-us-manufacturing-sector"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.588284969329834, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}