Trump’s latest rambling lie has quite a bit to unpack here..
First off, he’s not “announcing” anything, because the Brownsville refinery deal was made in 2024, under Biden. All that’s happened is that the company that originally secured the rights to build it sold those rights to Reliance.
Second, it’s not 300 billion dollars. It’s more like..3 billion. Even if it’s the biggest refinery in the history of the world, you’re looking at 25-30.
Third, it’s not a win for American workers, because Reliance is an Indian company that is going to staff the refinery…with Indians. On H1B visas.
And this is supposing the refinery ever even gets built – remember, it’s been approved for 2 years and not a single shovel of dirt has been moved. With a new company taking up the plans, you have to start the process of finding contractors, finalizing design, getting permits etc. all over from scratch. Trump claims this thing is going to be finished and producing by EOY – when was the last time you saw any large scale project done in 9 months? Hell, you have to add 40% to the cost of a decent HOUSE to get it build in less than that.
Of course, the Con Inc grifters just take everything said in his stupid post as gospel and run with it, because they don’t care if it’s misinformation, only if it’s good for engagement.
Courtesy of @BonkDaCarnivore on X