Wed Sep 27, 2023 – 10:01 pm EDT
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (LifeSiteNews) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandates in his address to an auto union group Wednesday evening in Michigan while skipping this year’s second Republican presidential debate.
“[Biden] wants electric vehicle mandates that will spell the death of the U.S. auto industry,” Trump told a crowd of auto union workers in Clinton Township, just north of Detroit.
Electric vehicle mandates are a sore point for the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which launched a strike earlier this month against the three largest U.S. auto manufacturers — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler parent Stellantis — over complaints of low pay and lack of benefits.
The union’s discontent with wages, as well as federal auto industry policy, have already come at a cost for Biden’s political favor. While the UAW endorsed Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election, the organization does not plan on endorsing him for the 2024 presidential election, citing “concerns with the electric vehicle transition” he has initiated.
Though Biden has promised “to be the most pro-worker and pro-union President in American history,” the UAW has complained
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