President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again Agenda is coming to fruition with the announcement from U.S. Steel that they will be firing up a blast furnace, which will create hundreds of jobs for Americans.
In a post on Monday on X, the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated a headline in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the company's mill in Granite City, Illinois, will resume making steel for the first time in two years, bringing much-needed jobs to the area.
This is the result of President Trump’s America First Economic policies coming to fruition:
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) December 8, 2025
‘U.S. Steel plans to restart one blast furnace, hire 400 workers’
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"This is the result of President Trump's America First Economic policies coming to fruition," Leavitt wrote, mentioning the article's headline about the Granite City Works plant that read:
"U.S. Steel plans to restart one blast furnace, hire 400 workers."
📍Illinois: "This is the beginning of the comeback Granite City has been waiting for."
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 8, 2025
"U.S. Steel announced Granite City Works will fire up one of its blast furnaces by next Spring." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4kbSKaKder
"This is the beginning of the comeback Granite City has been waiting for," a local reporter explained about the impact of the mill's return. "U.S. Steel announced Granite City Works will fire up one of its blast furnaces by next Spring."
The Associated Press report pointed out that the simple reason this is happening is that demand has returned, prompting the plant to resume steelmaking.
It read:
U.S. Steel on Thursday cited "customer demand" in beginning the process of restarting a blast furnace at the plant in Southern Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.
"After several months of carefully analyzing customer demand, we made the decision to restart a blast furnace," CEO David Burritt said a statement. "Steel remains a highly competitive and highly cyclical industry, but we are confident in our ability to safely and profitably operate the mill to meet 2026 demand."
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The company also said it expects to resume production in the first part of 2026, hiring and training workers. The number of jobs this could net is somewhere between 400 and 500 people to effectively operate the plant, the AP report noted.
The move by the steel company comes after President Trump and Japan-based Nippon Steel sealed a deal for the company to buy U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion, in what both sides called a historic partnership.
“Together, Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel will be a world-leading steelmaker, with best-in-class technologies and manufacturing capabilities,” the companies said.
The AP report added:
To resolve national security objections to the acquisition, Nippon Steel agreed to give the federal government a say in certain company decisions involving domestic steel production, including over closing or idling U.S. Steel's plants.
It also pledged to invest some $14 billion in steel production in the U.S., including building a new electric furnace.
Lower gas prices across the country, and now this news out of the Rust Belt. All great news for America!
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