For 40 years they told us steel was never coming back. On Monday the president announced that Mesabi Metallics will invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in southeast Iowa, with up to 1,750 permanent jobs and about 6,000 construction jobs, per CNBC and CBS News. The first phase is to make about 7.5 million tons of steel a year, ramping to 10 million, with production starting in 2030, and a White House official told CNBC it would be the largest of its kind in U.S. history. The iron ore comes from the company's own mine on Minnesota's Iron Range. The company told CNBC it will be "100% American steel: mined, melted and poured in Minnesota and Iowa." White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers: the president is "delivering on his promise to rebuild American industry, reshore manufacturing, and create new jobs." That is what bringing it home looks like. Chuck reads the announcement, as reported by The Epoch Times and Breitbart News.
Also in today's episode: a study by professors Cameron Ellis of the University of Iowa and Lars Powell of the University of Alabama estimates that spam filtering of Republican fundraising emails last year cost first-time WinRed donations worth about $117 million, more than 142,000 donations, while Google says the study relies on "deeply flawed methodology," per Breitbart News and Voz; a second federal judge this month, P. Kevin Castel, strikes down New York's $75 billion Climate Change Superfund Act as preempted by federal law, per The Center Square and the Justice Department; the Dallas Fed's Texas manufacturing production index jumps to 29.5, its highest since July 2021, though the same survey's company outlook index fell, per Breitbart News and the Dallas Fed; Attorney General Todd Blanche tells ABC's This Week that "being in the White House is a privilege. It's not a right," after CNN was kept off Air Force One for the Knoxville trip; SpaceX launches the classified USSF-385 mission for the Space Force from Vandenberg on a booster flying its tenth mission, per Spaceflight Now; Amazon announces a $100 million-plus plant in Greenwood, Indiana with 300 jobs averaging nearly $100,000 a year, per WTHR and Fox 59; and a poo-poo platter item on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's answer to $100,000-a-year Cornell: make public college free.
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