{"id":1050181,"date":"2024-12-06T00:11:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T05:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1050181"},"modified":"2024-12-06T00:11:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T05:11:24","slug":"trump-picks-offshoring-multimillionaire-david-perdue-for-ambassador-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-picks-offshoring-multimillionaire-david-perdue-for-ambassador-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Picks Offshoring Multimillionaire David Perdue for Ambassador to China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to Donald Trump selecting David Perdue as the Ambassador to China, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump is rewarding yet another ultra-MAGA loyalist who built his fortune by selling out the American people. David Perdue can\u2019t be trusted to stand up for American workers \u2014 just to push Trump\u2019s extreme Project 2025 agenda that will ship jobs overseas and hurt middle-class families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Donald Trump tapped offshoring multimillionaire and former Senator David Perdue as Ambassador to China. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump names former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be ambassador to China\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he is choosing former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be ambassador to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump said in a social media post that Perdue, a former CEO, \u2018brings valuable expertise to help build our relationship with China.\u2019 Perdue pushed Trump\u2019s debunked lies about electoral fraud during his failed bid for Georgia governor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perdue made a fortune by selling out American jobs to China.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cSen. David Perdue became wealthy outsourcing work to Asia. Now the former CEO stands with Trump, who wants to \u2018end our reliance on China.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Republican David Perdue ran for the Senate […], he spoke proudly of his years as a corporate executive in Asia. He made no apologies for having said that he \u2018spent most of my career\u2019 relying on the outsourcing of jobs.<\/strong> \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn fact, Perdue was a top executive at some of the country\u2019s best-known consumer brands, spending years in Hong Kong and Singapore, which he used as bases to travel across Asia to take advantage of the region\u2019s lower-cost workforces. He was senior vice president of Asia operations for Sara Lee, a conglomerate that owned clothing lines and wanted to expand production in China, and global vice president and later president of Reebok, which made most of its footwear overseas, including in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuch efforts to lower costs by moving jobs out of the United States to Asia have been common for the past several decades, and Perdue in his first campaign strongly defended the practice.<\/strong> \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKeith Alm, who worked with Perdue in the Hong Kong office, said in an interview that Perdue was \u2018a very shrewd business guy\u2019<\/strong> who worked with companies across China that had ties to the communist government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018David was a very key figure in terms of establishing relationships with the Chinese government as well as the manufacturers of different products,\u2019 said Alm, who was an executive senior vice president at Sara Lee at the time. \u2018They\u2019re all inextricably linked. Obviously, when you work in China, you work with the Chinese government. So he had exposure and management responsibilities for developing that relationship.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cBefore Embracing America-First Agenda, David Perdue Was an Outsourcing Expert\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe man who has lately voiced support for some of President Trump\u2019s signature tariffs built his career as an unapologetic, free-trading practitioner of the outsourcing arts<\/strong>. As a top executive at companies including Reebok, Sara Lee and Dollar General, he was often deeply involved in the shift of manufacturing, and jobs, to low-wage factories in China and other Asian countries.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Trump\u2019s disastrous record includes offshored jobs, shuttered factories, and manufacturing job losses across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump\u2019s Watch\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump promised \u2018America First\u2019 would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>: \u201cWhen Trump left office, there were over 170,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than when he started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal Economic Data<\/a>: \u201cMichiganders lost 31,000 manufacturing jobs over the course of Trump\u2019s presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s trade war against China didn\u2019t achieve the central objective of reversing a U.S. decline in manufacturing, economic data show, despite tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods to discourage imports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump told GM workers he could save their plant, but it\u2019s gone for good\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cManufacturing activity in September [of 2019] fell to its lowest point in a decade. The Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, which Trump flipped, have all lost manufacturing jobs since June. Many of those jobs have moved overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detroit Free Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump, tweets couldn\u2019t save U.S. auto jobs in 2017\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAfter Years of Growth, Automakers Are Cutting U.S. Jobs\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Donald Trump selecting David Perdue as the Ambassador to China, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cDonald Trump is rewarding yet another ultra-MAGA loyalist who built his fortune by selling out the American people. 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