From the New York Times, I'm Michael Mubaro. This is the Daily.

The construction of a massive factory in Arizona was supposed to embody the Trump administration's ability to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.

Instead, as my colleague Peter Goodman found out,

it's provided companies around the world

with literally 18,000 reasons to think twice about building in America.

It's Monday, December 22nd.

Peter, good of you to come into the studio.

Delighted.

I wonder, just to start this conversation, if you can describe this factory that you recently

visited to us.

Yeah, sure.

So it's about 9.20 in the morning on Friday, and I'm just arriving.

I mean, there's this giant, mostly empty desert valley in the extreme north of Phoenix,

as far as the eye could see, really, emptiness.

I'm standing on a gravel road, looking at cactuses and various desert scrub, just flowing out to to the horizons that this is all going to get

filled up with housing and offices.

So this factory, I've seen a lot of factories in my day, you sure have.

Is on a scale that I've never even imagined.

We're talking about more than a thousand acres.

The complex itself, I'm looking at a long, low, gray building with a bunch of smoke stacks

visible on top.

You can see at least a dozen cranes.

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