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AdventurousBus4355 Mar 29, 2026 +1

They're not going to have to look far. This is their version of capitalism. MAGA are just going to have to deal with it.

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fuck-nazi Mar 29, 2026 +1

Wut this have to di with anything

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ApprehensiveBead Mar 29, 2026 +1

"Bipartisan Push" usually means "Too Late." I’m glad they are investigating, but what is the actual end game? Unless they are prepared to slap massive tariffs on these machines when they try to ship them back into the U.S., a Senate investigation is just a very expensive "shame on you" session. John Deere knows the fine for being "investigated" is cheaper than the savings from Mexican labor.

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COMM_NTARIAT Mar 29, 2026 +1

The most expensive part will be the ten figure bonus that John Deere's board awards the CEO for pretending to eat a big bowl of shit in front of some Very Serious People.

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backstageninja Mar 29, 2026 +1

They are running an investigation to see if these companies made too much money by offshoring...so the result is to *apply tariffs* which these companies will pass on to the consumers. So you let them fire American workers, increase their profits and your "punishment" is to....increase their profits more? Makes sense.

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BasicCaptainn Mar 29, 2026 +1

Don't forget that John Deere is also the king of making their equipment impossible for farmers to fix themselves. They are anti-worker and anti-farmer. If Baldwin can tie the outsourcing investigation to Right to Repair laws, she’ll have every farmer in the country behind her. We need to stop letting these companies "monopolize" the American heartland and then abandon it.

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DecembersDragons Mar 29, 2026 +1

I don't like exporting jobs. But if I had to Canada and Mexico would be my preferred destinations. Helping our two closest neighbors stay stable and employed helps our security long term.

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learns_the_hard_way Mar 29, 2026 +1

MAGA would do literally anything before helping Mexico. They view brown people as the boogeyman

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BackgroundAny1387 Mar 29, 2026 +1

it's literally always the exact same playbook. these corporations get huge tax breaks, spend billions on stock buybacks to enrich their executives, and then immediately offshore all the union jobs to mexico to pay poverty wages. just tax them into the ground tbh.

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biasednotshyaboutit Mar 29, 2026 +1

Shine a light on this shit. Oh my god the screaming gop over jobs being moved.

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OpenImagination9 Mar 29, 2026 +1

Well that’s where Trump sent their factory workers …

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Pretty_Bed6476 Mar 29, 2026 +1

john deere and caterpillar have spent tens of billions on dividends and buybacks recently right before gutting their midwestern workforce. they aren't going to care about a "bipartisan investigation" unless the administration actually slaps them with heavy section 232 tariffs that wipe out the profit margins they saved by offshoring.

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MrPantsyFlants Mar 29, 2026 +1

America has become an unreliable business partner with the tariff rollercoaster and the decaying infrastructure and laws that are subject to the whim of an insane megalomaniac president. I feel like those things are more involved in the decision to forge ahead with the move.

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ceiffhikare Mar 29, 2026 +1

Revoke the corporate/business license, Refuse access to the American market; The companies will fold.

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RedditReader4031 Mar 29, 2026 +1

Should other countries also require that farm equipment sold for use there be made domestically as well?

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sayn3ver Mar 29, 2026 +1

I'm typically not a proponent of such nationalism. However it would be in a country's best interest to secure a level of food independence. Having at least one domestic manufacturer of farm and agricultural equipment (including timber harvest, heavy equipment for other resource extraction) would then possibly prevent interruptions in production during times of war or global instability. It's not unusual to see Germans buy German tools or cars or equipment and Japanese buy their own and South Korea, etc.

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RedditReader4031 Mar 29, 2026 +1

Would you say that to the Americans who work at the BMW assembly plant in South Carolina, where more than half of the production is exported to other countries?

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tombatron Mar 29, 2026 +1

Odds that Howard Lutnick does anything? 😂

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ooooogirlshedonealre Mar 29, 2026 +1

I don't get it...are tractors only allowed to be made in the US? What's to investigate?

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PeopleB4Profit Mar 29, 2026 +1

Sorry Tammy, MISSED AGAIN! Saving SSI not Progressive LGBTQ/Abortion not Progressive Reactionary legislation that will never pass NOT PROGRESSIVE You should sit one of her INFOMORCIALS (online CENSORED townhalls) BANNING people in the god business from public restrooms is PROACTIVE, will save the lives of children and shine the light on one of the real problems in this nation! RELIGION! This would be the most PROGRESSIVE thing dems have done in what seems forever!

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Tammy Baldwin leads bipartisan Senate push for investigation into farm equipment companies moving jobs to Mexico

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