TRUMP STEEL PLANT HITS IOWA, CORTES VOWS IT BUILDS | WAR ROOM AM W STEVE BANNON | (EP.# 5703 - 5704)
Steve Bannon opens Thursday, October 1, 2026, with Steve Cortes on the Mesabi Metallics plan for a roughly $15 billion integrated steel complex in Lee County, southeast Iowa. President Trump unveiled it at the White House on September 28 as the largest steel plant ever built in the United States.
The White House and the company put the project at about 1,750 permanent jobs, up to 6,000 construction jobs, first steel targeted for 2030, and an estimated $95 billion in economic output over construction and the first decade. Ore would come from Mesabi's Minnesota mine as "Patriot Pellets."…
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