In the small hours of June 30, Joe Klima lay awake in bed. A little before 5 a.m., he rose and packed his lunch. Ahead of Klima was his last shift at the Conn Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio — everyone’s last shift, because the factory was closing. At a time when the president of the United States said the country was in the midst of a manufacturing renaissance, the 150 people who still worked at the plant were losing their jobs, and seeing many of them offshored to China https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/01/conn-selmer-factory-closes-ohio-despite-trumps-manufacturing-push/