“A Trump administration will stop the jobs from leaving America.”

“We’re just shipping company after company after company is leaving this country and leaving jobs behind, And I’m going to get it stopped.”

Remember when Trump was going to stop the offshoring of jobs?
Well, a funny thing happened along the way.

While Trump campaigned on his “America First” message, promising to stop corporations from sending good jobs abroad, the tax bill he signed into law actually incentives companies to set up shop—and stash profits—overseas. Of all the campaign promises that Trump abandoned via the tax law, this one is perhaps the most egregious.

The new law established a lower 10.5 percent tax rate—half the domestic corporate rate—on the income that American corporations earn abroad. As Kimberly Clausing, a tax policy expert at Reed College, told The New York Times, “It’s sort of an America-last tax policy. We are basically saying that if you earn in the U.S., you pay X, and if you earn abroad, you pay X divided by two.” On top of that, American companies do not have to pay U.S. taxes on any profits earned from factories and equipment that is overseas, so long as such profits remain below a certain threshold of overall international investment. Critics say this could spark a new wave of offshored jobs.

I wonder how many Trump supporters know how badly they've been betrayed?
So with offshoring further incentivized, what do you think happened?

But U.S. companies sent thousands of jobs overseas in his first year as president. And many of the companies responsible for offshoring jobs received huge government contracts.

In fact, according to employment data charted by Good Jobs Nation and Public Citizen, federal contractors alone outsourced 10,269 jobs while taking over $19 billion in government money.

Never before in U.S. history have federal contractors sent so many jobs overseas.

So with jobs fleeing the U.S. at the highest rate ever, what do you think that's done to wages?

The average hourly wage paid to a key group of American workers has fallen from last year when accounting for inflation, as an economy that appears strong by several measures continues to fail to create bigger paychecks, the federal government said Tuesday.

For workers in “production and nonsupervisory” positions, the value of the average paycheck has declined in the past year. For those workers, average “real wages” — a measure of pay that takes inflation into account — fell from $22.62 in May 2017 to $22.59 in May 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said.

This pool of workers includes those in manufacturing and construction jobs, as well as all “nonsupervisory” workers in service industries such health care or fast food. The group accounts for about four-fifths of the privately employed workers in America, according to BLS.