WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump will speak Wednesday at the Loren Cook Company in Springfield, Mo., the White House announced Monday.
The afternoon speech will be aimed at promoting tax reform, but it will not be open to the general public. Trump is expected to exhort Congress to move forward on cutting tax rates and simplifying the tax code, a top campaign promise of the president's when he was elected in 2016.
Loren Cook, which was established in 1941, describes itself as a "leader in the design and manufacturing of fans, blowers, gravity vents, laboratory exhaust systems and energy recovery ventilators."
Trump will make a separate trip to Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday, to survey flood damage from Tropical Storm Harvey, which is devastating southern Texas and Louisiana with heavy rains and winds.
Trump has chosen to give the speech at the company of a Republican campaign donor. Federal records show that since 2008, someone identified as Loren Cook or Loren Cook II and affiliated with the company has given more than $24,000, individually, to GOP candidates, including Trump, who got $2,800, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Other recipients included Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the previous Republican presidential nominees, as well as Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Reps. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., and Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo.
Several members of the Missouri congressional delegation plan to attend the speech, including Blunt, Wagner and Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., their offices said Monday.
