President Donald Trump says tariffs will help bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, but critics warn a trade war could have the opposite effect. The White House says the new jobs report released Friday shows signs of a rebound, with 10,000 manufacturing jobs gained in President Trump’s first full month in office.”We already have numerous that are being built or starting to be built, and numerous that were being built in other countries and they stopped, and they’re coming here now because of the tariffs,” Trump told reporters Friday. “I think it’s very hard to gather much about tariff effects, or really anything that Trump is doing, from these kinds of short term job report numbers,” said Jonathan Gruber, chairman of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.It comes as stakeholders within the manufacturing industry are split about the long-term impact of Trump’s approach, as he …
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