Mike Rogers opposed a $500M grant to save hundreds of Michigan auto jobs, calling it a “bad investment,” and saying it “shouldn’t move forward.”
LANSING — As the Detroit Auto Show continues and Trump’s chaotic trade war pushes Canada to deepen its ties to China and cut tariffs on Chinese EVs, a reminder that multi-millionaire Florida resident Mike Rogers opposed saving hundreds of Michigan auto jobs for unionized workers at GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant, calling it a “bad investment” and arguing it “shouldn’t move forward.”
Mike Rogers said protecting Michigan auto jobs was a “bad investment,” claimed there’s no longer a ‘Big Three’ in Michigan, and has refused to speak out against Trump’s push to flood the U.S. market with Chinese autos:
- In 2024, Rogers opposed saving hundreds of Michigan auto jobs, saying that “he does not think the federal government should move forward with a $500 million grant” for GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant that “would have created 50 new jobs and saved 650 others” for unionized workers, calling it a “bad investment.”
- In 2025, the Trump administration reportedly threatened to use the GOP’s government shutdown to seek what’s been called “political retribution” and “could soon move to cancel more than $1 billion in federal grants” for GM and Stellantis, including “$800 million in total in Michigan.” One of the threatened investments reportedly included the grant opposed by Rogers for GM’s Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant.
- After Rogers called saving Michigan auto jobs a “bad investment,” he wrote off tens of thousands of U.S. autoworkers. Rogers has said that there’s no longer a “Big Three” in Michigan, writing off Stellantis and 48,000 U.S. auto workers—a move that Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel has called a “a huge mistake,” and “incredibly insulting to the union men and women who actually work on the line building those cars.”
- Rogers has also been silent after Trump told U.S. automakers to “let China come in,” a move that industry leaders have warned would “displace U.S. supply chains with Chinese ones,” and was slammed by Michigan Democrats, including U.S. Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters who called the president’s suggestion “bad for Michigan’s auto workers” and a “major national security risk.”
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