12/01/2016

Mr Trumph goes around Indiana plant ahead of victory



President-elect Donald Trump has kicked off a victory tour by heralding a deal which saved jobs at an Indiana factory.
He praised air-conditioning company Carrier Corp for keeping about 1,000 jobs in the state instead of moving its manufacturing to Mexico.
In exchange, the company will receive a $7m (£5.5m) package of tax breaks over 10 years.
Mr Trump will then head to Ohio to officially begin his "USA Thank You Tour 2016"  for those who voted him in..
"I got involved because of the love affair I've had, this has been a very special state to us," Mr Trump expained at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis.

Mr Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the outgoing Indiana governor, to keep the jobs stateside after the company said it planned to move its operations south of the border.
The New York billionaire, Mr Trumph had vowed on the campaign trail to stop American jobs from moving overseas, but said he did not realize he had made the promise to Carrier workers until he watched an interview with one of the company employees on a news programme.
The employee said Mr Trump had pledged to keep jobs from moving to Mexico, which prompted the president-elect to contact the company.

The deal will reportedly save about 800 union workers whose jobs would have been outsourced to Mexico and an additional 300 research and headquarters positions, but an estimated 1,300 jobs will still be moved south of the border.

The $7m tax incentive is also contingent "upon factors including employment, job retention and capital investment", according to a Carrier statement.
In addition to the tax break, Carrier and its parent company, United Technologies, has agreed to invest $16m to keep the plant updated, Mr Trump confirmed.
Mr Trump reiterated his promise to cut business taxes and roll back regulations, but added:

"Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences".

The president-elect will travel to Cincinnati, Ohio, for the first of several stops on his victory lap.
A rally will take place at US Bank Arena at 19:00 EST (00:00 GMT), the same venue where Mr Trump drew crowds of 15,000 people at a raucous rally on the campaign trail in late October.
He is expected to hold similar events in key battleground states like Iowa, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Michigan in the coming weeks.

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