3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 29
Summary
$18 billion is the new price tag Trump put on a planned Iowa steel mill, pitching it Monday as an economic jolt for a state central to November's midterm map.
Mesabi Metallics backs the project, which supporters say could become one of the world's largest steel mills; earlier plans called for 10 million tons of annual output, 1,750 permanent jobs and production by 2030.
Trump is tying the Iowa project to a broader week of job-creation announcements and campaign stops in Oklahoma, Alabama and Ohio, where he will back vulnerable Republican candidates.
Iowa and other Midwestern states helped return Trump to office, but tariff-driven factory costs, higher fuel prices linked to the Iran war and broader cost-of-living strains have weakened support for him and his party.