Trump Announces That Sprint, OneWeb Will Bring Back 8,000 Jobs to U.S.

This is a nice trend.

12.29.2016

Since Donald Trump was elected president, a myriad companies have announced they will be bringing back American jobs. Of course the Left has attempted to downplay the current trend, yet with consistency, Trump keeps announcing good news for American workers.

For instance, on Wednesday the President-elect announced that both Sprint and OneWeb will bring 5,000 and 3,000 jobs, respectively, back to the United States from overseas.

Trump noted that the current deal is connected to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who recently agreed to invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 U.S.-based jobs.

"The 5,000 jobs announced today are part of the 50,000 jobs that Masa Son (Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank) announced a few weeks ago, but these jobs will be funded by Sprint," the Sprint spokesman told NBC News. The outlet adds:

SoftBank owns about 80 percent of Sprint and earlier this month invested $1 billion in OneWeb, a U.S. satellite venture that aims to provide affordable internet. Son said at the time that the OneWeb investment was the "first step" in his commitment to Trump.

"Because of what's happening and the spirit and the hope, I was just called by the head people at Sprint and they're going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the United States and taking them from other countries," Trump told reporters Wednesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. "They're bringing them back to the United States and Masa and some other people were very much involved in that so I want to thank them. And OneWeb, a new company, is going to be hiring 3,000 people and that's very exciting."

It is not clear exactly from where the Sprint positions will be moved. The company said in a statement that the jobs will support a "variety of functions" like customer care and sales. It added that it will start talking to business partners, states and cities to determine the locations for the jobs.

[...] Carrier said Indiana agreed to give it $7 million in financial incentives over multiple years to keep some operations in the state, while it will still close a separate facility and move 700 jobs to Mexico. The deal also prompted concerns that Trump would intervene with companies on an individual basis and potentially pick winners and losers.

Trump asserts that the SoftBank investment is directly connected to his election.