Trump’s Jobs Boom Skips Illinois—Thanks to Pritzker’s Tax Hikes
by Thomas Mccullagh   
June 26, 2025

Across the country, American factories are reopening. Companies are returning home. Jobs are being created.

Under Donald Trump’s leadership, U.S. manufacturing is seeing a revival. Tariffs on foreign goods, tax incentives for domestic production, and fewer federal regulations have caused a shift. Major corporations are pulling operations out of China and Mexico and bringing them back to American soil.

Kentucky. Alabama. Indiana. Texas. South Carolina. These states are attracting billions of dollars in new manufacturing investments. Thousands of new jobs are being created.

But Illinois is being left out—and Governor JB Pritzker’s tax-heavy policies are a major reason why.

On June 26, 2025, GE Appliances announced it will invest $500 million to move washing machine production from China to Louisville, Kentucky. That move alone will bring 800 new jobs. It’s one of many examples of U.S. manufacturing growth—just not in Illinois.

Volkswagen is expanding its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. BMW is boosting output in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Honda is relocating hybrid vehicle production to Greensburg, Indiana. Georgia’s Hyundai plant is scaling up to produce 500,000 electric vehicles per year. Texas is gaining a new $85 million server plant from a Taiwanese company. Even California is getting a Novartis pharmaceutical facility.

But Illinois—once the heart of American industry—has seen none of this.

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"Recently, a prominent anti-Trump economist admitted what many on the right have been saying from the beginning: Trump’s tariff strategy wasn’t the reckless gamble the media made it out to be. Instead, it was a calculated move designed to protect American workers, revive domestic manufacturing, and put America’s interests first."
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I spent quite a bit of time yesterday in flame event with an unnamed Briefer about this very issue.  What these Anti-Trump economists and in the case of Briefer X, didn't realize that a lot of what Trump is doing in the area of tariffs straight from Calvin Coolidge's playbook.  Again.  Tariffs aren't the main event....   just one tool in the tool kit to deal with nations who want to take advantage of a country that allowed itself to be screwed by trading partners for decades.   This alone levels the playing field. 

Iif you could pull Trump off to the side, I am sure he'd say as the ultimate capitalist, that in the real world there would be no tariffs, no currency manipulation, or other tactics  to "game" the system. 

LOL. There really was a new rule put in place about 18 months ago for volunteers at Kentucky State Prisons thanks to one of my sons. I'll have to send this to him.

Merged several threads on antisemitism at Harvard.

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Ukrainian forces were notably only able to shoot down 1 of the 7 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and did not shoot down any of the four Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles during the June 28 to 29 strike series. Zelensky called on Ukraine to strengthen its air defenses and reiterated that Ukraine is ready to buy US air defense systems.

US President Donald Trump recently spoke with Zelensky about possible US sales of Patriot air defense systems on June 25. Patriot systems are vital to Ukraine's ability to defend against Russian ballistic missile strikes, especially as Russia is reportedly increasing its production and stockpile of ballistic missile production capacity to enable larger and more frequent ballistic missile strikes against Ukraine.

Russia appears to be increasingly striking civilian areas in its large-scale strike packages. Kyiv City Military Administration Head Timur Tkachenko stated that Russia has changed its strike tactics in order to inflict as much damage to civilian areas as possible.

Tkachenko noted that Russian missile and drone strikes heavily targeted Kyiv City 3 times in June 2025, launching a total of 285 drones and 65 missiles against the capital so far in June 2025 - a sharp increase from the 35 drones and one ballistic missile that Russian forces launched against Kyiv City in January 2025.

Tkachenko noted that 42 civilians, including a child, have died due to Russian strikes against the capital since the start of June 2025 and that 234 people, including 11 children, have sustained injuries.

Tkachenko reported that Russian forces are conducting “double tap” strikes against emergency responders and using cluster munitions with delayed detonations that threaten both civilians and rescue workers. ISW has observed Russian officials and milbloggers respond to recent large-scale and deadly Russian strikes against Kyiv City by calling on Russia to intensify its strikes.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-29-2025