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On Thursday, while most Americans were spending time with their families celebrating Thanksgiving, President-Elect Donald Trump was working on one of the top promises he made on the campaign trail: keeping jobs in the country.

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We were curious as to whether or not there was a chance he was actually making progress keeping the manufacturing company from moving its operations from Indianapolis to Monterrey, Mexico leaving behind its 1,400 workers. So we reached out to T.J. Bray, a Carrier employee for 14 years who we interviewed in our Carrier episode of The Table, and he said he was aware of Trump’s tweet and that he is waiting to see what it’s all about.

A little over an hour after Trump’s tweet, Carrier acknowledged that they have spoken with the incoming administration but stayed mum on the details.

During his presidential run, Trump cited companies leaving the country for cheaper labor as an example of the failure of Nafta and other free-trade agreements. To help re-craft these agreements, Trump is expected to select billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as his commerce secretary to help in the renegotiation or withdrawal process.

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A big hurdle the men will have to overcome in convincing Carrier to stay is the financial benefit for the company. In the U.S., Carrier pays its employees $15 to $26 an hour, which is about what the company’s workers in Monterrey earn in a day. And with the pressure from Wall Street investors to increase the bottom line, Carrier argued its best option to meet the demand, stay competitive and protect the company long-term was to move its operations.

Two days after Trump’s tweet, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released details on legislation he will soon be introducing to “make sure that Donald Trump keeps his promise to prevent the outsourcing of American jobs.”

The goal of Sanders’ legislation is to “send a very loud and very clear message to corporate America: the era of outsourcing is over,” and based on its four measures, listed below, it seems it would be very hard for an American company to justify outsourcing jobs to save money.

Sanders’ Outsourcing Prevention Act would:

  1. Prevent companies that outsource jobs from receiving federal contracts, tax breaks, grants or loans.
  2. Require all companies that outsource more than 50 jobs in a given year to pay back all federal tax breaks, grants and loans they have received from the federal government over the last decade.
  3. Impose a tax on all companies that outsource jobs. The tax would be equal to the amount of savings achieved by outsourcing jobs or 35 percent of its profits, whichever is higher.
  4. Prohibit companies that offshore jobs from enriching executives through golden parachutes, stock options, bonuses, or other forms of compensation by imposing stiff tax penalties on this compensation.

For now, we’ll have to wait and see whether Trump can get Carrier to stay and what measures he will take to make it happen. According to The New York Times, earlier this the week, Indiana state officials stopped by the factory to explain what benefits workers could expect as layoffs begin. The first production lines are expected to shut down in August 2017.

We will continue to update this story with the latest info and reactions.