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Skepticism mires Trump’s Iowa steel plant project: ‘Promises are not the same as jobs’
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Skepticism mires Trump’s Iowa steel plant project: ‘Promises are not the same as jobs’

Admin · October 7, 2026 · 1 min read

The project has sparked doubts over whether the plant will be built and delivered as promised, given Trump’s record Donald Trump has long sought to portray himself as a man of steel, from the White House photoshopping Trump to look like Superman, to enacting tariffs on steel and approving the sale of US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel with a ”golden” share given to the US government. Most recently, the Trump administration announced plans to construct the largest steel plant in the US, a $15bn plant in Lee county, Iowa to be built by India-based Mesabi Metallics. Continue reading...

Originally reported by The Guardian US by Michael Sainato. Read the full story at the source.

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