https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/18/trump-reshoring-tariffs-balacing-00612521"Tariffs meant to protect American producers are raising the cost of the very materials they need to expand their footprint in the U.S. New visa policies risk narrowing the talent pipeline needed for that expansion. And spending cuts pushed by White House budget hawks threaten some of the subsidies companies need to make bringing back jobs pay off."
“I think we don’t get the credit we deserve. This is all much more thought out,” said a White House official, granted anonymity to share the administration’s thinking. “There’s a status quo … and obviously that’s why companies are profitable and making money, and I think folks don’t like any disruption to the status quo.”
Did this "anonymous source" actually just say that companies are not cooperating because it will disrupt profits?
Really? Companies don't want to lose money and see investors flee? Whodda thunk?
These very companies are actually suing at the SCOTUS level!
“It’s frustrating because we’re the most American auto company, and we export the most, and yet, we have this $2 billion headwind, which prevents me from investing even more in the U.S.,” said Jim Farley, CEO of Ford Motor Company.“The administration seems to be more of a ‘ready, fire, aim’ type of situation,” said Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the libertarian Cato Institute. “Their first gut impulse is on the tariffs and government equity stakes and other things,
and they’ve somewhat ignored a lot of the supply-side impediments.”
And they have ignored that it all drives a massive scale of inflation. Building the infrastructure and supply-chain to support large scale manufacturing is hella expensive, and all of that feeds into the final product. Which will likely end up being a $75,000 basic automobile. No worries, though. You will be able to get a 15-year car loan!
