blue collar workers

Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) is introducing a federal savings program to help individuals pay for equipment, certifications, and startup costs tied to careers in the trades and vocations.

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that the Republican National Convention (RNC) is heralding a new generation of the GOP: a party of blue-collar workers.

While it remains to be seen what the debate has in store, there are several key themes and storylines to watch out for heading into the evening, ranging from the competition between the candidates for blue-collar workers, Biden’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war, how the moderators treat Trump given a history of bias, and if Biden puts his campaign lies into action.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) is proposing an amendment to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that would protect working class Americans from Big Agriculture’s desire to flood the industry’s workforce with more foreign workers.

The United States must bring back the jobs “globalists sent overseas” to China in order to “rebuild the middle class,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Breitbart News on Sunday.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing movement harms the working class the most.

Tyler Sasse, owner of Western Welding Academy, said his Blue Collar Tour informs srudents of career opportunities in skilled trades.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s pro-migration policies are inviting another blue-collar migration flood across the southern border, say his Democrat allies.

In 2016, President Donald Trump won roughly 70 percent of white people who did not graduate college — but he won only 64 percent in 2020, according to exit polls.

The Republican Party should always abide by its core principles, and yet at the same time, it should return to its Lincolnian roots, becoming the avowed party of first responders, blue-collars, and other frontline workers—and joined by, of course, soldiers, homemakers, and believers.

Joe Grogan, White House Assistant to the President and director of the Domestic Policy Council, spoke about President Trump’s economic accomplishments and his devotion to blue collar workers, declaring that America is in the midst of a “Trump blue collar boom” and slamming arrogant, typical left-wing views about working-class people” during an appearance on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily at CPAC’s radio row.

During the 2020 State of the Union address, President Trump said his “Buy American, Hire American” economic nationalist policies have created a “blue-collar boom” in the United States.

A bipartisan coalition of United States Senators is asking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf not to follow the path of former Secretaries Kirstjen Nielsen and Kevin McAleenan by allowing businesses to import more low-skilled foreign workers.

Blue-collar and white-collar Americans “are being clobbered, they’re being killed,” former Vice President Joe Biden claimed at the January 14 Democrat debate in Iowa.

Known as the “dirtiest man on television,” Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch fame joined Breitbart News Sunday this weekend on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 to discuss his new show Returning the Favor and combating stigmas around blue collar work.

A tight labor market is good for Americans because it forces companies to train their workforces and to recruit sidelined Americans, Ivanka Trump told the annual meeting of the consumer electronics industry.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is continuing to push his populist agenda for Florida, joining Angel Families who have lost their loved ones to illegal aliens to demand mandatory E-Verify in the state to ban employers from hiring illegal aliens over Americans.

President Donald Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” economy, with the tightest labor market in decades, has grown the wages of blue-collar workers more than any other income group, analysis finds.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a top candidate for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, says amnesty for every illegal alien living in the United States is “good for” American workers who will be forced to compete against newly legalized low-skilled foreign workers.

At least Democrats are on message. The party even launched a campaign this summer in seven battleground states to make the case that the Trump economy is actually bad.

Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders took aim at New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) over remarks about Ivanka Trump, just days after formally leaving the White House.

Elaine Parker of Job Creators Network writes at foxnews.com that the rising tide of President Trump’s economic reforms is indeed lifting all boats, especially among blue-collar workers and the bottom 25 percent of wage-earners.

Billy Bova mocked descriptions of Joe Biden as a working class and blue-collar champion — i.e. “Lunchbox Joe” — as a “facade.”

Smaller sanctuary city jurisdictions are committing to welcome all illegal aliens that President Trump sends their way, should the White House follow through on a plan to bus border crossers to sanctuary cities and states.

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the flood of illegal immigrants arriving in the United States on a daily basis is “undercutting” President Trump’s “Hire American” economy by threatening to choke recent wage hikes for America’s blue collar and working class.

Wage hikes for America’s blue collar and working class can be readily suppressed and choked by importing more foreign workers for employers, the New York Times admits.

Washington Examiner commentary editor Timothy Carney, author of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, described the “destruction of a way of life” among “working class” people in rural and industrial regions wrought by the status quo of globalization in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

The majority of blue collar American workers say they are better off today with the economy under the direction of President Trump than they were during the Obama years, a new poll reveals.

The avid free trade-wing of President Trump’s administration is trying to convince him to weaken his economic nationalist agenda, which is expected to include harsh tariffs on potentially hundreds of imported Chinese goods.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is urging President Trump to impose tough tariffs on aluminum and steel imports to protect American industries and increase domestic production.

Americans are increasingly supportive of tariffs on cheap, imported goods from foreign countries to protect American industries and workers against wild globalization.

President Trump’s amnesty plan would potentially give a pathway to U.S. citizenship to an illegal alien population that is roughly six times the number of illegal aliens that were given temporary amnesty under former President Obama.

Two American solar manufacturing companies allege that they were practically driven out of business by Chinese solar manufacturers who unfairly dumped their products in the U.S. market at lower prices.

President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda has spurred a trend of American companies filing a record number of trade lawsuits against foreign competitors in 2017. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, “a wave” of trade lawsuits by American companies against

The current United States legal immigration system where extended family members and relatives of naturalized U.S. citizens are able to readily enter the country is “really hard to justify as a rational immigration policy,” a Harvard University economist says.

Decades of mass immigration to the United States, with more than 1.5 million legal immigrants entering the country every year, is the world’s “largest anti-poverty program” at the expense of blue-collar American workers and the middle class, says a Harvard University economist.