From the moment Wisconsin struck a deal to pay Foxconn more than $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies to build a plant in the Badger State, critics decried the plan as a total scam that had Donald Trump and Paul Ryan’s fingerprints all over it. And they weren’t wrong! Writing for The New Yorker last year, Dan Kaufman laid out the many ways Trump’s “incredible” deal was poised to screw Wisconsin locals for years to come, from the billions in “direct cash payments from taxpayers” that they wouldn’t recoup for about a minimum of 2.5 decades, to forcing homeowners to sell their properties “at a price determined by the village,” to granting the company special court privileges (like the ability to make numerous appeals of unfavorable rulings in a single case), to serious concerns about the factory’s impact on the water supply, to the fact that all those billions could be better used on things like the state’s crumbling roads or understaffed rural schools. In theory, these minor downsides would have been offset by the “potential for up to 13K new jobs in Wisconsin!” Unfortunately, Wednesday’s news introduced a slight glitch into that plan:

Foxconn, a prominent supplier for Apple and other electronics makers, says it’s scrapping plans to build a giant new factory in Wisconsin.

“In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory,” Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn chief executive Terry Gou, told Reuters. “You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment.”

Per Representative Mark Pocan, this turn of events comes as Wisconsin has already poured massive amounts of cash into campus construction, new roads, and paying families who lived on what was supposed to be the factory site to relocate. And that’s not all:

Woo . . . said about three-quarters of Foxconn’s eventual jobs will be in R&D and design—what he described as “knowledge” positions—rather than blue-collar manufacturing jobs.

Thousands of blue-collar jobs were, of course, one of the most important selling points of the original deal, and undoubtedly a major factor in Wisconsin’s decision to agree to put up billions in taxpayer funds. And speaking of jobs: