Khanna believes manufacturing 'isn't going to come here'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

04/13/25 2:12 PM ET


Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) believes manufacturing “isn’t going to come” to the U.S. despite the Trump administration placing tariffs on countries to do so. Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where he said he doesn’t think manufacturing for technology will come to the United States and that it will instead go where there are lower tariffs.

“Let’s say you suddenly put tariffs on China. What it would mean is the production would move to other parts of Asia. It still isn’t going to come here, unless you’re financing those factories here, willing to buy here,” Khanna said, pointing to the tech industry and semiconductor chips.

Khanna argued that companies and production will shift away from China, which President Trump put a 125 percent tariff on, but instead go to India, Malaysia or Vietnam. “If you want to bring back the manufacturing to the United States, you have to invest in the workforce, you have to have some investment tax credit for the facilities, and you have to be able to buy the things we make in the United States,” he said.

Khanna pointed to a recently released CBS News poll, which found most Americans believe Trump’s tariff plan will benefit the wealthy and large corporations the most.

Read more: https://thehill.com/business/5246839-khanna-manufacturing-jobs-us/

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"Shop class" in some random high school is not gonna cut it. The country needs to invest money in the trades and there needs to be more opportunities in the trade unions for apprenticeships, something that Biden had attempted to do, but that may be, if it hasn't already been, repealed.

[elleng]

1. Right, "Shop class" in some random high school is not gonna cut it. The country needs to invest money in the trades'

[IronLionZion]

2. The manufacturing that is here is assembling stuff from imported parts and materials

that's just the nature of the global economy decades in the making.

[Javaman]

6. Or delivering the assembles stuff

There won’t be many jobs in the factories. They all will be run by AI and robots with very minimal human staff

That is of course if they are ever actually build. I work the architect/design industry, I have severe doubts any of them will ever be built; for a variety of reasons

[stillcool]

3. slave labor and child labor

might be a strong appeal to multi-national corporations that pay no taxes. That could work. They could use some of the prison space that will open up when El Salvador is the new home away from home for American prisoners, and all the empty government buildings. Could be a real deal.

[patphil]

4. No one is going to come to the US to build a business with these deranged idiots running the country.

No business already in the US is going to commit huge sums of money to build new factories in the US with these deranged idiots running the nation.

I think you'll see more and more of the super rich longing for the good old days when the Democrats were in power. They'll dump the Republicans for stability over policy every time.
Maybe they'll get a smaller profit, but the business climate will guarantee that profit. It's the age old risk profit analysis that will see the demise of the Republicans.

They'll come to understand that the Republicans are only in it for themselves; no concern for anyone who doesn't kneel before the king, and pay tribute to him. Why would you give up your ability to build your own future, so that they could dictate that future for you?

[msongs]

5. yeah build new factories then the fascists cancel the tariffs lol nt