BREAKING : Ahead of Trump Meeting IBM’s CEO Pledges to Hire 25K and Invest Over 1 BILLION in the U.S.

On the eve of a YUGE tech industry meeting with Donald Trump, IBM’s Chief Executive Ginny Rometti said she plans on hiring over 25,000 people in the U.S. and invest over 1 billion over the next four years.

The spirit of “America First” is contagious!

From Investors.com:

Rometty, who is on Trump’s advisory panel of business leaders, will join Facebook’s (FB) Sheryl Sandberg, Amazon.com’s (AMZN) Jeff Bezos and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Larry Page and Eric Schmidt at a summit with Trump on Wednesday in New York that is said to focus on jobs.

During the run-up to the election, Trump made employment issues a mainstay of his campaign, promising to scrap trade deals he viewed as draining jobs from the country and impose tariffs on imports if necessary. He has since claimed credit for preventing thousands of manufacturing jobs from moving overseas and used state incentives to strike a deal with Carrier, a unit of United Technologies (UTX), to pull back on its plans to move some operations to Mexico.

Rometty is continuing what is emerging as a formula among technology companies. In conjunction with meetings with Trump in his Manhattan tower, they’re pledging to create jobs and invest billions of dollars in the U.S., even if the plans had already been in the works since before he was elected.

Over the past few years, IBM — like many large U.S.-based companies — has been criticized for eliminating thousands of jobs in the country and moving resources to places such as India. The company reported fewer employees at the end of 2013 than the beginning of the year for the first time in a decade, and reduced its total workforce by 12 t year. IBM said it hired more U.S. employees last year than it had in the five years prior.

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