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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