Bombardier Plans $270M Investment Across Three States

On Oct. 22, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Bombardier will invest $270 million in Kansas, Texas and Indiana. He wrote, "We are bringing back our Jobs, our Manufacturing, and the American Dream," and named Sen. Roger Marshall and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the post. In January, Trump had threatened to revoke certification for Canadian-made aircraft and impose a 50% tariff on Bombardier jets unless Canada certified Gulfstream jets; Canada certified those jets about a month later. Sen. Jerry Moran urged the administration to allow Bombardier’s Wichita operations to expand and said that facility supports more than 1,000 employees. Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on roughly $20 billion of U.S. goods were part of the same trade stretch. Bombardier separately announced about $50 million for Wichita, including a new North American Learning Center. The timeline and allocation of the $270 million have not been specified, and Bombardier did not respond to requests for comment.