On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence walked the floor of the Carrier Corp. plant in Indiana to celebrate their recently announced deal with the air conditioning and heating-systems maker.
On Tuesday, the incoming Trump administration revealed that it had reached a deal with Carrier to keep 1,000 jobs in Indiana, instead of moving them to Mexico. According to the New York Times, Vice President-elect Pence (who is still the governor of Indiana) negotiated the deal with Carrier and, in the end, the company agreed to keep the jobs in Indiana after being offered $7 million worth of of economic incentives.
Even with the deal, however, Carrier will still close its Huntington, Indiana, plant and move about 700 jobs to Mexico.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The deal is considered a victory for President-elect Trump, who spent much of his time campaigning for the presidency pledging to keep more manufacturing jobs from moving overseas. In a September debate with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, President-elect Trump specifically addressed Carrier's plans.
"So many hundreds and hundreds of companies are doing this," Trump said. "We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States."
Thursday's plant visit will be the first of many other stops on what his advisers have dubbed a "thank you" tour for voters who supported him throughout his run for president.
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence talk to workers during a visit to a Carrier factory, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Indianapolis, Ind. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Carrier first announced its decision to shutter the Indianapolis plant in February and said it would move its operations to Mexico.
For Trump's complete remarks at the Carrier plant, check out the video below.
