LANSING — With all the coverage of Trump’s outlandish claims about the auto industry and electric vehicles, Michigan Dems are setting the record straight about Trump’s history of deserting auto workers and selling our EV future to China. This November, the country will decide between a president who has had workers’ backs every single day or a president who has sold them out at every chance he got. The stakes have never been higher for workers.
During his presidency, Trump abandoned every promise he had made to auto workers. Let’s look at the facts:
- In 2016, Trump stood in Michigan and promised that, if elected, they would “not lose one plant.”
- During his presidency, GM shuttered not one but two different factories – a 78-year-old plant in Warren, MI and in Lordstown, OH plant.
- While Biden has been president, he saved a plant and entire community in Belvidere, Il.
- Trump was president in 2019 when GM was on strike for 40 days, yet he did and said nothing to support the workers asking for fairer wages.
- Trump’s USMCA has resulted in trade deficits getting worse for auto workers – thousands of auto jobs were lost under Trump.
- As president, Trump ceded the electric vehicle future and good-paying union auto jobs to China.
- While Biden has been president, Trump has lied time and time again about an “electric vehicle mandate” that doesn’t exist.
- While Biden has been president, Trump has lied time and time again about an “electric vehicle mandate” that doesn’t exist.
- Even still, Trump promises to double down on this approach, destroying the high-paying, union electric vehicle and battery jobs created under President Biden.
- Trump will end the EV tax credits that make them affordable for more Americans and kill their production, sending those jobs to China.
- Trump will end the EV tax credits that make them affordable for more Americans and kill their production, sending those jobs to China.
Thanks to President Biden, we are beating China in planned new private sector investments in electric vehicle and EV battery manufacturing. This administration has also seen a jobs boom with 800,000 new manufacturing jobs across the country — keeping Biden’s promise to ensure that the future of the automobile industry will be made in America by unionized American workers. These high-quality jobs support working families and help grow the middle class instead of lining CEO’s pockets, proving once again that Biden is the most pro-union, pro-worker president in America’s history.
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