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the president s strong leadership is needed to begin to level the playing field so companies like ours can compete. and just tuesday, u.s. steel announced it was adding more capacity and jobs in granite city. by october, the plant should be fully operational, providing 1,500 jobs paying on average $55,000 a year. when i asked if trump gets all the credit, things get a bit awkward. the president of the united states certainly would say he gets the credit. is donald trump wrong? i would say that he gets some of the credit, but i m not going to look past all the hard work that our international unit steel workers has done. if i were to ask you who gets the credit for this turnaround, what do you say? i would say that it s a culmination of people. reporter: it s not the only debate. industry experts say trump s actions are making steel more expensive.
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don t do business without it. don t live life without it. president trump managed to get in some tariff talk before leaving the g7 summit early for singapore after imposing tough duties on steel and aluminum. the president floated this idea, eliminate all tariffs across the board between the u.s. and the g7 countries. some american workers meanwhile appear to be benefitting from the president s controversial new trade policies. the new taxes, the new tariffs, our martin savidge takes us to granite city, illinois, where they re celebrating the re-opening of a steel plant. martin? reporter: ana, there are a lot of people in this town, including the mayor and union leaders that were afraid this plant was never coming back. in granite city, illinois, this sign says it all. the u.s. steel plant s back in business and folks couldn t be happier. how does it feel to be back
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at work? good. real good. what s it like to be back at work? it s absolutely awesome no in president trump s growing trade war, granite city s a winner, but it wasn t always. in 2015, u.s. steel shut down the mill, blaming depressed steel prices and unfairly traded imports. almost overnight, close to 2,000 people lost their jobs. it was devastating. every store you went in, every restaurant you went in, people were saying, have you heard anything? are they doing anything? daily somebody was coming in and reaching out for some type of help to either try to save, you know, a house, a car, pay some bills. reporter: many believe that s why in 2016 granite city and madison county, traditionally democratic-leaning, voted 54% for donald trump. a vote that paid off this past march when trump ordered a 25% tariff on imported steel. we just want fairness. reporter: that same month, u.s. steel announced it was firing granite city back up, praising trump.
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