AUTO INDUSTRY/JOBS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A liberal policy group is rolling out a $1 million-plus social media campaign this week attacking President Donald Trump in the wake of General Motors plant closings. The Center for American Progress Action Fund, the think tank’s advocacy arm, is hitting Trump for handing out tax breaks to big corporations like GM, even as the automaker shutters plants in communities across Ohio and Michigan. Trump famously told Ohio residents at a 2017 rally that manufacturing jobs were coming back to the state. ‘Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,’ he said to a cheering audience in Youngstown. This week, however, GM closed its plant in Lordstown, Ohio — not far from the 2017 rally site — affecting 5,400 workers. Late last year, GM had reported a tax benefit of at least $157 million as a result of Republican tax reform legislation passed in 2017.”
–Natasha Korecki, “Center for American Progress pounds Trump over GM layoffs,” Politico, March 7, 2019 4:03 pm