{"id":1517302,"date":"2022-06-15T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517302"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:20:12","slug":"illinois-dem-shocked-after-another-manufacturer-leaves-democrat-run-state-for-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-dem-shocked-after-another-manufacturer-leaves-democrat-run-state-for-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Dem \u2018Shocked\u2019 After Another Manufacturer Leaves Democrat-Run State for Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-dem-shocked-after-another-manufacturer-leaves-democrat-run-state-for-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Illinois congresswoman Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday said she was &#8220;shocked&#8221; after the world&#8217;s largest construction-equipment manufacturer announced it would move its headquarters out of her state to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m shocked and disappointed by Caterpillar\u2019s decision to move its HQ from Illinois,&#8221; Duckworth <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/senduckworth\/status\/1536839938464956416?s=21&#038;t=p7Hl1Mp5zL1FPBNf36EVIg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on Twitter. &#8220;While this will only directly affect about 1.5 percent of IL-based employees, I&#8217;ll keep working to encourage Caterpillar to preserve jobs and follow through on its promise to hire even more Illinoisans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Caterpillar, a Chicago area-based company with more than $50 billion in annual revenue, announced it will set up its new headquarters outside Dallas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/caterpillar-to-move-headquarters-to-texas-from-illinois-another-blow-to-the-chicago-area-11655224397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> the move is &#8220;in the best strategic interest of the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer&#8217;s move marks the second time in recent weeks that a major corporation announced it would move its headquarters out of the Democrat-governed state. Last month, Boeing said it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/illinois\/caterpillars-planned-move-adds-to-more-than-1-000-lost-manufacturing-jobs-in-illinois-since\/article_5de9fdda-ec2d-11ec-89ff-63d76029060f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Center Square <\/em>that Democratic policies that are unfriendly for business are to blame for Caterpillar and other companies moving jobs out of the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve heard it once, I\u2019ve heard it a thousand times of what these manufacturers are paying and there\u2019s really little for them to do,&#8221; Durkin said. &#8220;They\u2019re getting no relief from local governments nor from the state. \u2026 When it comes back to it, it\u2019s the cost of doing business in Illinois.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duckworth has advocated policies unfriendly to business as a member of Congress. In March, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralillinoisproud.com\/news\/politics\/on-the-record\/sen-tammy-duckworth-unveils-legislation-aimed-to-prevent-gas-price-gouging-hold-oil-companies-accountable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for<\/a> a federal &#8220;tax on excessive profits&#8221; by oil companies.<\/p>\n<p>In a poll of nearly 700 CEOs and business owners conducted this year by business magazine\u00a0<em>Chief Executive<\/em>, Texas was ranked the number-one state for business. Illinois came in 48th place out of 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Illinois congresswoman Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday said she was &#8220;shocked&#8221; after the world&#8217;s largest construction-equipment manufacturer announced it would move its headquarters out of her state to Texas. &#8220;I\u2019m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}