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

Today, Shannon Malkihei's job in an Indiana steel plant was headed to Mexico.

Donald Trump vowed to keep those kinds of jobs inside the United States.

How the promise of America first has collided with the reality of American manufacturing.

It's Wednesday, October 18.

I'm going to bring jobs back. We're bringing jobs back to our country.

We're not going to let carrier leave. We're going to take numbers. We're going to do numbers.

There are consequences when you leave. And we'll talk about carrier because say what you want to do.

I've been talking about carrier now for four months.

Before I even knew that we were going to be coming, literally from the day.

Just a mile down the road from the carrier plant in Indianapolis is the Rexner plant

where steel workers have been manufacturing the Cadillac of steel bearings for nearly 60 years.

Strengthening the parts through a process known as heat treating.

I've never ran scrap the whole time I've been there.

You've never run scrap?

I guess that's kind of shop talk. scrap is like a bad part.

Knowing that it's bad and you send it on through.

Shannon Malkihei worked at Rexner for almost 18 years.

And heat treat has got to be pretty much perfect.

We've got different customers that depend on that bearing and it can't fail out on the field.

I mean, whether it be conveyor or bridge, different things like that,

and to hurt somebody out there on the field.

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