IL State Chamber of Commerce issued the following announcement on July 30.
President Donald Trump returned to Illinois on Thursday for his first visit since becoming president, taking a victory lap at a U.S. Steel plant in Downstate Granite City, where officials have credited his steel and aluminum tariffs for allowing the facility to re-open.
Speaking to the invitation-only crowd gathered at a warehouse on the plant grounds, Trump said he was “here to celebrate a great victory.”
“After years of shutdowns and cutbacks, today the blast furnace here in Granite City is blazing bright, workers are back on the job, and we are once again pouring new American steel back into the spine of our country,” he said.
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