General Motors will cut back on production at a truck plant in Oshawa, Ontario, eliminating a shift this fall due to President Donald Trump’s auto import tariff.

GM said that an “evolving trade environment” and lower demand led to the decision to end the shift at the plant, which produces Chevrolet Silverados, The Detroit News reported on Friday. The move will result in around 750 employees getting laid off, according to the union representing affected workers.

“These changes will help support a sustainable manufacturing footprint as GM reorients the Oshawa plant to build more trucks in Canada for Canadian customers,” the Detroit-based automaker said in a statement.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the news from GM is “extremely tough for the workers in Oshawa and their families.”

“These are hardworking people who have helped build Ontario’s auto industry,” Ford added. He then blamed Trump’s tariffs for causing “economic uncertainty and chaos.”

The Oshawa plant stopped producing new cars in 2019, but GM revitalized it just two years later and began making new trucks there.

“GM Oshawa was reopened thanks to the hard work of our members and significant investments by the federal and provincial governments based on a promise to maintain good jobs and production. We will not sit idly by as that promise is eroded one shift at a time,” said Chris Waugh, the chairman of Unifor, the Canadian general trade union.

Trump’s 25% tariff on auto imports has sent car manufacturers scrambling to move production to the United States or cut back on production costs. Last month, GM announced to its staff that it would ramp up production of light-duty trucks at its assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The increased production at the Fort Wayne plant promises to add more temporary jobs and increase overtime opportunities for employees.

Foreign car makers are also looking to boost manufacturing and investments in the United States. German automaker Mercedes-Benz announced on Thursday that it will build another car in the United States, adding a “core vehicle segment” to its factory in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Bloomberg reported.

Trump has credited tariffs for bringing more manufacturing jobs back to the United States. After South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai announced a $21 billion investment in the United States over the next four years, Trump said that “tariffs very strongly work.”

WASHINGTON—The Department of Transportation is terminating $54 million worth of recently-discovered “woke university grants,” The Daily Wire has learned, arguing that the grants advanced radical agendas that ran counter to the department’s mission.

Seven schools received grants which Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told The Daily Wire were advancing a “radical DEI and green agenda” that is wasteful and counter to the Trump administration’s priorities.

The University of California, Davis’s National Center for Sustainable Transportation was receiving $12 million for “accelerating equitable decarbonization” research, according to the department, while City College of New York’s Center for Social and Economic Mobility for People and Communities through Transportation was receiving about $9 million for research into “equitable transportation for the disadvantaged workforce.”

“The previous administration turned the Department of Transportation into the Department of Woke,” Duffy told The Daily Wire Friday afternoon. “I’ve focused the Department on what matters; safety, making travel great again, and building big, beautiful infrastructure projects.”

The department’s discovery is yet another instance of massive amounts of American taxpayer dollars going to the ideological pet projects of the past administration. In the Transportation Department’s case, officials looked under the hood and were horrified to find that many of the grants weren’t even aligned with transportation at all.

“The American people have zero interest in millions of their tax dollars funding research on the intersection of gender non-conforming people and infrastructure inequality or whether road improvement projects are racist,” Duffy added. “It’s time to inject a dose of reality back into our higher education system, and that starts with ending these wasteful and divisive grants.”

Other recipients of grants that have now been terminated included the University of Southern California Pacific Southwest Region, New York University, San Jose State University, University of New Orleans, and Johns Hopkins University, The Daily Wire can first report.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The University of Southern California’s Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center received about $9 million for research on how “the transportation system creates and perpetuates inequities,” the Transportation Department said, and New York University’s Connected Communities for Smart Mobility Toward Accessible and Resilient Transportation for Equitably Reducing Congestion was receiving $6 million for research into “e-bikes to low-income travelers in transit deserts.”

Under the former grants, San Jose State University’s Mineta Consortium for Emerging, Efficient, and Safe Transportation was also receiving about $6 million for research on “intermodal inequities, particularly how improvements to auto travel can benefit higher income, often white drivers, while depressing transit ridership potential and depriving it of revenues necessary to provide comprehensive services to lower income, often BIPOC people and research into using crowdsourcing and collaborative planning to address safety concerns of women and gender non-conforming people using public transportation,” the Transportation Department told The Daily Wire.

The University of New Orleans’ Center for Transit Oriented Communities was receiving $6 million for “equitable transit-oriented communities [and] how neighborhood stabilization efforts support environmental justice” research, and Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Smart Transportation was receiving $6 million for climate change focused research on “hyperlocal pollution exposure inequalities in New York City, promoting EV usage for low-income gig workers, long distance ride sharing, gentrification.”

The Trump administration has been vocal about ending these types of grants and wasteful spending, tasking the Department of Government Efficiency with ending wasteful spending. DOGE has cut almost $200 billion from government spending since Trump took office, Elon Musk shared in a recent interview.