White House: Keystone exempt from 'Buy American' requirements

[HAB911]

The Keystone XL Pipeline will not be subject to President Donald Trump's executive order requiring infrastructure projects to be built with American steel, a White House spokeswoman said today.

Trump signed the order calling for the Commerce Department to develop a plan for U.S. steel to be used in “all new pipelines, as well as retrofitted, repaired or expanded pipelines” inside the U.S. projects “to the maximum extent possible.”

By the White House’s judgment, that description would not include Keystone XL, which developer TransCanada first proposed in 2008.

“The Keystone XL Pipeline is currently in the process of being constructed, so it does not count as a new, retrofitted, repaired or expanded pipeline,” the White House spokeswoman said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/keystone-pipeline-buy-american-exemption-235639?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange

[spanone]

1. smoke & mirrors....it's all bullshit

[HAB911]

4. I never knew what a nightmare was before now

[RKP5637]

2. EVERYTHING that comes from tRump is convoluted, distorted, filled with lies and changes

with the wind as he promotes his lying propaganda. This jerk is a disaster.

[Achilleaze]

3. republicans screwing American workers - same as it ever was

freaking republican liars are disgusting.

America deserves better.

[Bengus81]

5. You mean Trump LIED in his address to Congress?? Nah,couldn't happen.....

He WAGED his finger at me and said it would all be built with American steel!

[Blue_Tires]

6. Working-class white folks in the rust belt were unavailable for comment

[flygal]

7. Oh it doesn't count...na uh...

how do they get away with it.

[rdking647]

8. trump cant order a pipline built with american steel anyway

no matter what his exec order says.

[babylonsister]

9. I imagine this is because

dt doesn't want to bite one of the hands that feeds him.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/19/dakota-access-pipeline-steel-evraz-russia-putin

Like Keystone XL, Much of Dakota Access Pipeline Steel Made by Russian Company Tied to Putin

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[Progressive dog]

10. That buy American plan

didn't last long, but we get a pipeline to carry Canadian tar sands oil to the Gulf of Mexico, so it can be shiipped to China.
I wonder if Trump counts the anticipated need for spill cleanup workers in his jobs claims for the pipeline.

[Takket]

11. Lol even drumpf doesn't want to listen to drumpf executive orders lol

[RedWedge]

12. Most of thsoe pipes had already been ordered anyway -- and they weren't made here.

[hatrack]

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