Trump: Domestic Steel Production Is up by 100,000 Tons of Steel a Week

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TRUMP: “Domestic steel production is up by 100,000 tons of steels a week — steel a week. We are — we have a 50 percent tariff on steel, aluminum and various other things. Copper just got brought into the picture. And that means people are going to want to make steel here. We just made a deal with U.S. Steel. As you know, we have an outside company come in, spend $17 billion on building new plants, new everything. It’s great and it’s — it stays right here in America. So, we’re doing amazingly well on steel.”