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Donald Trump\u2019s promised \u201cgolden age\u201d of American manufacturing is collapsing under the weight of its own numbers as factory spending sinks and jobs disappear, according to humiliating new official government data.<\/p>\n

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The president swept back into the White House in January 2025 vowing to \u201csupercharge our domestic industrial base,\u201d leaning on aggressive tariffs and arm-twisting to drag companies into building plants on U.S. soil. Eighty-four firms duly pledged more than $900 billion to expand American manufacturing.<\/p>\n

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But almost none of it is being built, according to numbers reported by the Financial Times. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The outlet found that private spending on factory construction slumped to $15.2 billion in April\u2014down roughly 16 percent since Trump\u2019s second term began\u2014while 77,000 factory jobs have evaporated over the same stretch.<\/p>\n

The mismatch is staggering. More than $900 billion was pledged, but only a sliver of it resulted in actual construction. \u201cAnnouncements are what people say they\u2019re going to do, but dollars spent is what\u2019s actually happening,\u201d Didi Caldwell, chief executive of Global Location Strategies, told the FT. <\/p>\n

Her firm helps companies hunt for factory sites, and she isn\u2019t seeing the boom. \u201cFrom where we\u2019re standing, we are not seeing signs of a manufacturing renaissance in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drive through the old industrial heartland, and the same story plays out. Take Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan, where the collapse runs deepest. The city\u2019s population has nearly halved since the 1970s, and employment at U.S. Steel\u2019s Gary Works has cratered from 30,000 to fewer than 5,000. <\/p>\n

When good news does come, it\u2019s modest. In April, U.S. Steel announced up to $20 million to fire a tin mill at Gary back up, adding 225 jobs\u2014a move the White House triumphantly slapped atop its list of proof that \u201cAmerican manufacturing is roaring back.\u201d Wells Fargo analyst Timna Tanners credited Trump\u2019s steep metal tariffs with sparing the industry a \u201cworld of hurt,\u201d and said that without them, at least one of the plant\u2019s four blast furnaces would likely have gone dark.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere in Indiana\u2014the state that leans harder on factory work than any other in the country\u2014the recovery is slow, uneven, and far from anything resembling a boom. Outside Warsaw, in the north-east, Dan Tasiemski is converting an old printing works, shuttered a few years ago at the cost of 2,000 local jobs, into a plant for Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Automotive. The veteran of Tesla, Boeing, and Foxconn told the FT he plans to start churning out a stripped-down, sub-$30,000 pickup truck there later this year. \u201cThere\u2019s a great talent pool here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same plateau on the railroads. Katie Farmer, chief executive of giant BNSF, said she\u2019d seen a revival in steel and a handful of other commodities\u2014but flatlining everywhere else, with tariff uncertainty keeping capital \u201con the sidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

The economists are blunter still. S&P Global\u2019s Chris Williamson warned that what looks like an uptick is fueled by fear rather than confidence, with companies stockpiling amid supply shortages and rising prices as the Iran conflict drags on. \u201cIt isn\u2019t reflecting the true health of the manufacturing economy,\u201d he said, \u201cand it\u2019s more worrying than it is encouraging.\u201d <\/p>\n

KPMG chief economist Diane Swonk added that output had grown only modestly in early 2026, with no real sign that the bleeding of jobs to automation and overseas competitors had stopped.<\/p>\n

The White House isn\u2019t having it. Spokesperson Kush Desai insisted to the FT that the president was \u201cdelivering with a proven economic agenda of targeted tariffs, rapid deregulation and investment-friendly tax cuts,\u201d pointing to climbing factory output and stronger demand for big-ticket business equipment.<\/p>\n

But the numbers, and the people living among the empty plants, tell a different tale. As Swonk put it, no single mill can undo decades of decline\u2014not when modern factories run on automation and skeleton crews. \u201cThere is just no turning the dial back to the 1950s or the 1970s,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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