By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News
A day after General Motors announced thousands of job cuts and possible plant closures President Trump, who promised to help auto workers, threatened on Twitter to cut all GM subsidies.
If you’ve every taken I-80 through northeastern Ohio you’ve passed the huge General Motors plant in Lordstown. It is one of the factors that could be shutdown because GM will no longer make the Chevy Cruze. Lordstown Mayor Arno Hill says he’s hopeful that their plant can be refitted. “We have a fabulous product here but we have no market. With low gas prices, with people trending toward pick-ups, SUVs and crossovers, you know, we can’t hold guns to peoples’ heads and say, “Hey, you have to buy our product,” said Mayor Hill.
General Motors is also scrapping production of the Chevy Volt and Impala.
The automaker says the moves are designed, in part, to prepare the company for a future of driverless and electric vehicles.
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