Tag: Trumps
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Why strategy trumps process in pursuing bids
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Chad Prinkey is CEO of Well Built Construction Consulting, a Baltimore-based firm that delivers strategic consulting, facilitation services and peer roundtables for construction executives. Opinions are the author’s own. We’ve all heard it: Trust the process. Much…
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Supreme Court questions Trump’s tariff powers in landmark case
Supreme Court justices who will decide the legality of President Donald Trump’s unlimited use of tariffs under a self-declared national emergency questioned both sides of a historic case in a hearing on Wednesday. During over two and a half hours of oral arguments, the nine-member panel focused on the scope of presidential power, the meaning…
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Gateway construction continues despite Trump’s claim of termination
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. President Donald Trump said Oct. 15 in Washington his administration had “terminated” funding for New York City’s Gateway program. On Manhattan’s West Side, however, contractors on the site have not missed a shift, they say. Earlier this…
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‘Projects will cost more’: building in Trump’s America
Rod Sweet talks to two of Gleeds’ big hitters about the president’s impact on the US construction industry. Image: The White House CC Whether it’s ordering ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids on building sites or slapping huge tariffs on staple imported materials, Donald Trump may be the most interventionist US president in the post-second…
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Appellate court rules Trump’s global tariffs illegal, but delays action
A federal appeals court on Aug. 29 ruled that President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose broad tariffs was illegal, but delayed any action until mid-October in anticipation of a Supreme Court review. In a 7-4 decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with the Court of International Trade, which…
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Why Trump’s tariffs alone aren’t enough
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Brian Gallagher is vice president of corporate development at Oakbrook, Illinois-based contractor Graycor. Opinions are the author’s own. I’ll go out on a limb with what may be an unpopular sentiment at the moment: President Donald Trump’s…
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JCB plans San Antonio factory expansion to dodge Trump’s tariffs
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Heavy machinery maker JCB announced earlier this month that it’s doubling the size of its upcoming San Antonio factory in an effort to evade President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The revised Texas site plan, which is still…
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Could Trump’s trade war make green energy cheaper in the UK?
As the US under President Donald Trump escalates tariffs on Chinese goods – particularly clean energy components – industry insiders say the UK could become a key alternative market. The trade war may divert solar panels, batteries, wind turbine parts and heat pump components from the US to Europe, increasing supply and driving down costs.…
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Trump’s immigration enforcement against employers has been gradual. That may soon change.
Federal immigration authorities may be gradually boosting their enforcement activities, but the slow pace has not changed employers’ need for caution, employer-side immigration lawyers told HR Dive. Prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, incoming officials promised large-scale worksite enforcement. So far, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has targeted small entities for raids, with recent examples…
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Four ways construction can navigate Trump’s tariffs
Uncertainty is usually a cause for concern in construction. However, it is nothing new to the UK market. Recent years have seen Brexit, covid, war in Ukraine and more. The effects of the tariffs are likely to be another in a long line of challenges affecting the supply chain. The industry has proven itself to…