Article snippet: General Motors’s plans to slash 15,000 jobs and shutter up to four U.S. factories sparked a firestorm of criticism from Washington on Monday. The company’s plans to massively restructure its business played well with investors, sending GM’s stock rising. But MORE and lawmakers from both parties blasted the company for moving to cut jobs nine years after a multibillion-dollar auto industry bailout. Trump said Monday that he urged General Motors CEO and Chairman Mary Barra to keep producing cars in the Lordstown, Ohio, plant the company plans to close and told her that GM “better get back in there soon.” “I love Ohio,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal. “I told them, ‘you’re playing around with the wrong person.’ ” Democrats and Republicans from states hosting targeted plants accused GM of betraying the workers who devoted their careers to the iconic automaker and the taxpayers that saved it from failure during and after the Great Recession. Ohio and Michigan officials say they will push Barra for a reprieve from the planned cuts, but local company employees are bracing for devastating plant closures as soon as March 2019. “This decision is corporate greed at its worst,” said Sen. MORE (D-Ohio) in a statement. GM announced Monday it would not assign products in 2019 to auto assembly plants in Lordstown; Detroit-Hamtramck, Mich.; and Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, and auto parts factories in Warren, Mich., and White Marsh, Md. As many as 5,901 hourly and 804 salaried... Link to the full article to read more