JD Vance and Marco Rubio Launch Foundry School in Major Push to Reindustrialize America | AC1G

JD Vance and Marco Rubio Launch Foundry School in Major Push to Reindustrialize America | AC1G​

This critically important initiative launched today with the full support of the administration including remarks by both Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ‘Industrial Security Is National Security’, noted Vance. ‘We Lost Our Ability to Make Things’ Rubio warned as both explain the importance of the objective. WATCH:

This morning the Trump administration launched the Foundry School, a national program to train the entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders needed to rebuild American manufacturing. [Press Release Here]

“President Trump’s reindustrialization agenda has already brought trillions of dollars in industrial investment to American soil. Foundry School will focus on turning that investment into jobs. American manufacturers will need an estimated 3.8 million skilled workers by 2033 in semiconductors, defense, energy, and beyond, and Foundry School exists to make sure Americans fill those jobs. The program will put American workers first by equipping them with the skills needed to bring manufacturing jobs home and build careers in industries critical to our nation’s economic security.”

From the comments section posted above

Bruce Gordon
September 3, 2026 12:10 pm


Did anyone else notice how Secretary Rubio introduced VP Vance?
Rubio said that this initiative would need to be accomplished over the course of multiple administrations….and that’s why it was so important for Vance to be there to give his remarks.
And then Secretary Rubio repeated it for emphasis.
What do you suppose that Vance has to do with future administrations?
Hmmm. Very interesting.

Folks
I have maintained this for decades. One needs an industrialized base for national security. This ranges from tool and die makers to machinists to plumbers and electricians ... One of the big reason for this trade war with Canada is China shipping steel to Canada and it enters the US in that manner. ... This undercuts our steel production (if we have any left )
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Jett96
September 3, 2026 11:44 am


I grew up in Fremont CA, Bay Area. We had Pacific States steel, GM, Ford and Dodge plants in San Jose, Peterbilt in Newark, Caterpillar in San Leandro. All gone. Not a single Big 3 auto plant in the Western states, no steel mills. Columbia River Washington had Aluminum production facilities, gone. CA and OR were major producers of timber harvesting and production. Gone!, at least some members of the GOP are attempting to bring it back. A nation can’t survive without an industrial base. It is salt of the earth and provides a common bond.