HAPPY TRUMP: FCA To Invest $4.5 Billion In Michigan Plants And Create 6500 Jobs

The automaker confirmed plans Tuesday to revive a previously idled engine plant on the city's east side as part of a $4.5 billion investment in five Michigan plants. The actions would create about 6,500 new jobs in Metro Detroit, would help solve capacity problems for Fiat Chrysler in North America, and would prepare for future production of electrified Jeep SUVs.

If Mayor Mike Duggan and his team deliver the land, a community benefits agreement, and council approval, Fiat Chrysler would bring nearly 4,000 new jobs to the city to staff the vehicle assembly line. That would be a boon for Metro Detroit, positioning the city and the region to reap economic rewards from FCA's three-year realignment of its lineup around hot-selling Jeep SUVs and Ram trucks.

skytop - 2/27/2019 12:37:56 PM

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Good job Mr. President creating lots of job for Detroit.

You are doing what the corrupt, impotent Democrat party could NEVER do.

Truthy - 2/27/2019 1:31:31 PM

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Specifically, what did tRump do to bring this about?
If you are going to give credit to Private Bone Spurs, the he gets the blame for GM layoffs, at least partly due to tariffs and poor trade policies.

qwertyfla1 - 2/27/2019 2:26:35 PM

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-Truthy

Simple. Trump is a business man and NOT a community organizer.

The tariffs were needed to level the playing field and trust me my business is way down due to Trumps steel and aluminum tariffs as most my business is in Canada being affected by this but right is right.

Truthy - 2/27/2019 2:59:04 PM

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I will push back against tRump being a business man. He inherited daddy's business, had to declare bankruptcy multiple times and could only get loans thru shady circumstances from foreign, mostly Russian, backers.
The tariffs have accomplished little. They have hurt my business too with no gain for domestic sources.
Jimmy Carter was a businessman too.

Truthy - 2/27/2019 3:13:55 PM

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Qwertyfla, saying, "tRump is a businessman" is not terribly specific. Former fed chairman said he has no understanding of macro-economics. There are literally thousands of businessmen more successful than tRump. Bloomberg started with very little and is worth $48 billion. Howard Schultz started with nothing and is worth $8 billion. Neither inherited a company from daddy.
Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world.
Obama was also a partner in a law firm, taught Constitutional Law at Nothwestern and was a US senator.
Perhaps tRump and McConnel could learn a little by taking a class about the Constitution.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 2/27/2019 3:38:31 PM

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If you bother to read the article they actually only openly talked about this expansion a year ago. It has likely been ing planning for several years before that. The planning that has to take place to find the land, build the plant, staff it and service it is immense if you just take a second to think about it. You don't just wake up and propose a $4.5B USD investment. The net result is that this decision had little to do with who is in the White House and everything to do with FCA's long term global business plans regarding their plants and product strategy.

garysandiego - 2/27/2019 4:12:19 PM

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The article makes no mention of Trump. Why the click-bait, AutoSpies? This is getting old.

MDarringer - 2/27/2019 11:05:33 PM

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Nah, it's fun watching the Liberals lose their sh!t at the mere mention of Trump who will easily win re-election in 2020.

Truthy - 2/27/2019 5:56:06 PM

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TRump took credit for the Ford plant relocation to Ohio which had been in the planning stage for 4 years and was negotiated by Governor Kasich. So, yes, FCA has aggressive plans for Jeep and this had nothing to do the temporary president.

MDarringer - 2/27/2019 6:50:17 PM

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Remember Trump is YOUR President. #Trump #Landslide #2020

CarCrazedinCali - 2/27/2019 10:54:25 PM

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how fun it is to laugh at MD! I LOVE IT! Did you watch Cohen's testimony today MD? I bet you have some stupid response to his testimony too! Let's hear it! :) :) :)

Truthy - 2/27/2019 7:40:56 PM

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No chance he wins, unless Hillary the undead runs again.

MDarringer - 2/27/2019 8:57:18 PM

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He will win easily. The Liberals are doing precisely what they need to do to strengthen HIS base.

CarCrazedinCali - 2/27/2019 10:56:55 PM

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Agent009, desperate for comments much? Trump is a morally bankrupt man, con artist, epic liar, likely Russian asset, racist, misogynist, and on and on

MDarringer - 2/27/2019 11:03:58 PM

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TheSteveV3.0 is triggered

CarCrazedinCali - 2/28/2019 11:50:48 AM

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nah, I nailed it, you just are too ignorant to see it

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 2/28/2019 5:59:44 PM

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@CCC - Don't try to educate the masses with facts. Thankfully American's by and large are an intelligent bunch and the 2020 election will be won or lost based on who the people see as a competent leader to have as President for the next 4 years. IE Likely not someone if you had them over for dinner would want to kiss your teenage daughter can grab your wife by the p***y. Consider the last election was won by a mere 180,000 electoral votes out of 130,000,000 votes cast, it shouldn't be all that hard for a Democrat to win the White House.

MDarringer - 2/28/2019 8:49:24 PM

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@CC You wouldn't know facts if they bit you on the ass.

Truthy - 2/28/2019 1:29:14 PM

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The economy was in a growth mode for 7 years before he was elected. If you follow economic trends, such as the trajectory of the market, employment, GDP, etc, the trends in place continued. Trump came onto third base as a pinch runner as is claiming credit for hitting a triple.
The only change is he has added $2.0 trillion to the deficit.

Truthy - 2/28/2019 1:42:14 PM

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An excellent article in Brookings compared Trump's economic performance to his 5 predecessors and he comes out 5th of 6th.
It is based on a number of metrics and actions. Further indicating he inherited a good economy and is riding the wave.
Obama inherited a crashing economy that both parties share blame for, however his stewardship put it on the path to today while decreasing the annual budget deficit by 60 percent. The growth in deficit early on was due to a larger Bush tax cut during two expensive and the decreased revenue from the deep recession, not by increased spending.
Domestic spending increased the slowest amount of any president since Ike.

Truthy - 2/28/2019 2:32:24 PM

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colecole, if you think [sic] anyone is advocating murdering viable infants you probably get your news from fox. Full term abortions happen in only about 0.0016 percent of all births. They are not not viable and are done for humane reasons and/or health of the other. For the right-wing media to distort this tells you how intellectually bankrupt their ideas are. "Well Cletus, we have no good ideas to win win elections so let's lie about this story to get our fellow tRumpsters ginned up. Whohoo!"

MDarringer - 2/28/2019 8:48:17 PM

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@Truthy You lost your spit letting people trigger you. Why the psychotic break? You were progressing so nicely toward sanity?

mini22 - 3/1/2019 6:43:18 PM

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It is true that the Democrats are trending to the left. What you need is a Democratic version of a John Kasich. The country is essentially in the center. Neither candidates that are far right or far left will work. We can only hope that either Trumps tweets something to hang himself or another over site committee in congress finds out more dirt on Trump. Otherwise I see a potential Trump being re-elected. That would be a "very bad thing".......

MDarringer - 3/1/2019 10:24:41 PM

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John Kasich IS a democrat. Don't let his party affiliation fool you. He's John McCain V2.0 and like McCain he hates The Constitution and comes ONLY to destroy. Trump will easily win re-election.