‘It’s bleak’: Trump prepares to gut investments to clean up heavy industry

Published on May 8, 2025

President Donald Trump vowed to bring industrial manufacturing back to the United States. But in the coming weeks, his administration plans to gut a key program at the Department of Energy that promised to rapidly revitalize domestic production of materials such as cement, aluminum, and steel. Slashing funding and…

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