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WARREN, MI – Today, Representative John James (MI-10) issued the following statement regarding the UAW strike:

“The Biden Administration has signaled that it does not care about UAW workers. The administration is forcing our country into a comply-or-die EV mandate that has already burned billions in American taxpayer dollars on a capacity that autos can’t afford, for demand that doesn’t exist, and with an infrastructure that isn’t built in the first place—it’s built in China.

“UAW workers get up early every morning and work hard for a living—that’s the Michigan way. Meanwhile, coastal elites in the Biden Administration wake up and go to the couch where they’ll work from home. Michiganders don’t have that luxury, but while the administration works from home, they’re gutting our local economy by mandating an EV transition that caves to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) agenda which has a chokehold on the American automotive industry. Meanwhile, Michigan’s families and workers are being left behind—once again.

“We all want the UAW and Big Three leaders to negotiate in good faith, to negotiate quickly, and to resolve this pressing matter so that we can refocus our energy on the real fight: holding the Biden Administration accountable for how they’re prioritizing our adversaries over our automotive workers. The fight is not with the workers on the picket line in Detroit; the fight is with the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., and that’s what I’m focused on.”