This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Elizabeth Peake about manufacturing.

The ostensible explanation from the Trump administration, why the tariffs, why now,

bringing home America's factory floor, bringing home investment from overseas to factory floors in America?

Is it showing yet on the statistics?

And here's Liz to explain.

There are contradictions.

But slow growth is possible.

Here's Liz to explain.

It involves Ford Motor Company.

Much more of this tonight.

So, no.

I mean, it's, as I, the PMI that came out today indicated that manufacturing had, was, had, had tapered

off a bit.

Remember, we had, I think, 26 months in a row of manufacturing contracting,

and then we had two or three where it expanded,

and now it looks like it's contracting a little bit again.

But then I look at today's, I think it was today's report on four from Ford and everybody was very

concerned about auto sales and auto production in May but Ford came in just a few

hours ago and reported that there they had a 16% increase in year-over-year sales increase in May.

That sounds like pretty good manufacturing number to me.

Again, the backlog in manufacturing is pretty good nationwide, and new orders are pretty strong.

So I don't think manufacturing is in a slump.

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