Trump promised jobs, so why is he undermining the ones we already have?
Turtle Creek Mayor Adam Forgie has a blunt question for Donald Trump: If you promised Western Pennsylvania jobs, why are you undermining the ones we already have?
In his TribLive op-ed, Adam explains how a clean-energy jobs boom over the last few years has been turned into a looming bust by Trump and his allies in Congress, thanks to their repeal of critical clean-energy incentives. He details how the Inflation Reduction Act helped bring EOS Energy’s Project AMAZE to Turtle Creek—redeveloping the old Westinghouse site, creating hundreds of family-sustaining, union jobs, and finally delivering the kind of investment the Mon Valley had been waiting on for decades. He then lays out how Trump’s policy choices are now forcing companies to cancel projects, shelve new facilities, and even cut jobs—directly threatening those hard-won gains across Turtle Creek and Rust Belt communities like it.
Click and read Adam Forgie’s full op-ed in TribLive to see why he believes Trump’s rhetoric on jobs doesn’t match the reality on the ground in PA-12—and what’s really at stake for our region’s economic comeback.