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Uline, a business and shipping supplies company owned by billionaire Trump supporters Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, is pausing the construction of a new distribution facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin, citing economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n
The construction pause comes in a key battleground state, where Trump won in 2016 and 2024, but lost to Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n
An official with Uline recently asked Kenosha\u2019s city planning commission for an extension of a conditional use permit for the more than 1m sq ft facility in Kenosha.<\/p>\n
The request said the pause is \u201cdue to current economic conditions and available space within Uline\u2019s existing network\u201d and states construction will be paused until 2027 or later.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s any secret there\u2019s unsettlement in the economy right now,\u201d Brad Folkert, director of construction at Uline, told the commission. \u201cSo, we\u2019ve been looking at that. And then, we were able to extend a couple of leases at our Pleasant Prairie properties that have put us in a position where, right now, we\u2019re pretty well set. We kind of need an extension here in order to just push this back a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The commission extended the permit for 12 months in response to the request.<\/p>\n
Richard Uihlein donated nearly $80m to a pro-Trump political action committee in 2024. The Uihleins polled their own employees in October 2024 ahead of the presidential election on whom they planned to vote for through a survey. In January 2026, a Uline employee resigned from the company in protest of the couple\u2019s support for Trump and Republicans.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Uihlein responded in a statement to the Guardian about the survey: \u201cThis is stupid! The survey was for fun after enduring two years of this presidential election. The results were anonymous and participation was voluntary. This is completely benign.\u201d<\/p>\n
Uline and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the pause of construction of the distribution facility in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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