INDIANAPOLIS -- More than two months after President Donald Trump tweeted "No more!" about Indiana's Rexnord plant moving its jobs to Mexico, those jobs were the focus again.
U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) met with President Trump Thursday afternoon in the White House.
Donnelly highlighted the need to protect American jobs andhis legislation that would reward companies that invest in American workersand penalize those that ship jobs to foreign countries.
"This isn't just one group," Donnelly said. "This isn't just one place. It's all over the state of Indiana, all over our country. Mr. President, we need to stand together to fight for our workers."
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The meeting between President Trump and Sen. Donnelly came one day before the one-year anniversary of the announcement that Carrier would move 1,400 jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico. In November 2016, the Trump administration and Carrier reached a deal to keep more than 700 of those jobs in Indy.
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Rexnord has also announced it will move its Indianapolis operations to Monterrey, Mexico, and take 350 production jobs with it.
President Trump invited Donnelly and other senators to the White House to try to get support for his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. Following the meeting, Donnelly released this statement:
"We had a productive and wide-ranging discussion on preventing the outsourcing of American jobs, addressing the opioid abuse epidemic, and we also talked about Supreme Court nominee, Judge Gorsuch. Hoosiers hired me to do a job: to represent everybody in our state and work hard to do what's best for Hoosier families - and this was a good opportunity to talk about a number of issues important to Hoosiers and our country."
The other Senators who met with Trump are:
- Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
- John Cornyn (R-Texas)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
- Chris Coons (D-Del.)
- Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)
- Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)
- Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)
- Jon Tester (D-Mont.)
- Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
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