EXCLUSIVE — A former Trump White House senior adviser has started a new outside conservative group to support President Donald Trump’s manufacturing and job-creating policies.
Former Trump Domestic Policy Council Director Joe Grogan announced the nonprofit organization Restoring American Dominance on Friday with a seven-figure investment and mission to “bring back homegrown, American manufacturing and bring about a golden age for the American people,” and “ensur[e] that the United States leads the world in manufacturing, trade, and innovation.”
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“For too long, Washington allowed our competitors to steal jobs and weaken our economy,” Grogan told the Washington Examiner. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we have a historic opportunity to bring those jobs back, rebuild American industry, and unleash a golden age for workers and families across this country. We are excited to get to work advocating for the policies that will make this more prosperous future a reality.”
A spokeswoman for Restoring American Dominance described the group as “concerned employers, workers, and policy experts,” who “will work to support the Trump administration’s agenda to strengthen America’s workers, restore America’s economic strength, and unleash manufacturing across the country.”
Restoring American Dominance’s launch coincides with a new digital ad, “Golden Age,” which will launch next week and target key policy influencers in Washington, D.C.
The 50-second spot opens with a narrator accusing Trump’s predecessors, including former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, of having “shipped our jobs overseas, putting America last.”
“Now, President Trump is bringing them back and putting America first,” the narrator says. “Cars, agriculture, energy: Since Trump took office, leading companies have pledged trillions of dollars in U.S. manufacturing investments.”
The ad includes clips from news broadcasts covering, for example, Trump’s framework for a trade deal with the European Union.
“He’s negotiating trade deals for middle America, protecting homegrown American agriculture, and creating good-paying jobs for Americans,” the narrator adds. “Trump’s mission to restore American dominance is working, the Golden Age of the American workers here, and the best is yet to come.”
Restoring American Dominance comes as the Trump administration this week underscored the president’s manufacturing and job-creating policies ahead of, on, and after Labor Day.
“President Trump’s America First trade policy has driven more than $8 trillion in new U.S. investment as scores of companies bring their manufacturing and production back home — ultimately creating hundreds of thousands of new, good-paying jobs for Americans,” the White House told reporters this week. “President Trump has reached historic trade deals with major U.S. trading partners covering more than half of global GDP and driving hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenues — keeping his promise to liberate the country from decades of failed trade policy and leveling the playing field for American workers after decades of being sold out for cheap foreign labor.”
Democrats have criticized Trump’s manufacturing and job-creating policies after the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics in July drastically revised May and June’s jobs reports from 125,000 and 147,000 to 19,000 and 14,000, respectively. The bureau’s first jobs report since Trump fired former commissioner Erika McEntarfer in July is due on Friday.
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BLS released its job openings and labor turnover report on Wednesday. It found there were 7.18 million job listings in July, the second time there have been fewer than 7.2 million since 2020.
“Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that for the first time in years, the U.S. now has more unemployed people than job openings,” the Democratic National Committee told reporters this week. “The official ‘hiring rate’ in the US is just 3.3% — nearly the lowest level since 2013. U.S. manufacturers are being hit hard, with the sector contracting for a sixth straight month, and factory orders declined in July for the third time in four months.”