President Joe Biden joins striking United Auto Workers on the picket line, in Van Buren Township, Mich. United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain stands at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Biden on Tuesday became the first sitting president to join a picket line when he spoke to striking members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at a General Motors facility in Van Buren Township, Mich.
The trip comes one day before former President Trump speaks to union members in Detroit as each attempt to frame themselves as the presidential candidate representing workers’ needs.
“You guys, UAW, you saved the automobile industry back in 2008 and before,” Biden said Tuesday. “You made a lot of sacrifices, gave up a lot and the companies were in trouble. Now they’re doing incredibly well. And, guess what? You should be doing incredibly well too.”
Michigan is not only an auto manufacturing hub, but a battleground election state. In 2016, Trump was the first Republican to win Michigan in a presidential election since 1988. Biden defeated Trump in the state in 2020.
Trump, who’ll be in Detroit tomorrow night instead of the second GOP primary debate in Simi Valley, California, criticized Biden’s policies to expand the use of electric vehicles on Tuesday, calling them a “draconian and indefensible Electric Vehicle mandate” that “will annihilate the U.S. auto industry and cost countless thousands of autoworkers their jobs.”
Biden’s campaign, meanwhile, has argued the Trump administration sent jobs overseas.
Biden announced his visit to Michigan on Friday, the day the UAW expanded its strike to 38 facilities, and after Trump’s campaign announced his Detroit trip.
As of press time, at least 19 Democratic senators and seven Democratic House members have called on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to resign after his indictment Friday on federal bribery charges. Menendez has called the allegations against him a “smear campaign.”
In public comments Monday, Menendez said he believed he’ll be exonerated and intends to stay in his seat. He didn’t say whether he plans to seek reelection next year.
Both the House and Senate are trying to push through their own continuing resolutions to temporarily fund the government before the Saturday deadline, buying lawmakers some time to hash out full-year appropriations bills while averting a shutdown.
Ahead of the formal vote at 5:30 p.m., Senate negotiators attempted to beat the clock by proposing a 79-page continuing resolution bill that would fund the government through November 17 before current funding expires this weekend.
A couple votes remain tonight that will further gauge the temperature in the chambers.
5:30 p.m.: The Senate takes a procedural vote on a bill that would serve as a legislative vehicle for a stopgap measure.
6:30 p.m.: The House takes a procedural vote on four appropriations bills (which won’t themselves fund the government by Saturday but could appease enough GOP holdouts to pass the House stopgap later this week — or so Republican leadership hopes).
Follow The Hill’s live blog for updates on these and other threads as they develop throughout the week.
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The White House announced the 12 inaugural members of the President’s Advisory Council on Africa Diaspora Engagement — a list that includes actor Viola Davis.
The Supreme Court denied Alabama‘s request to temporarily halt a lower court’s ruling that struck down the state’s GOP-drawn congressional map for not including a second majority-Black district.
Long COVID has affected around 18 million U.S. adults: Report
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on last year’s National Health Interview Survey showed around 18 million adults said they’d struggled with long COVID.
PUNDIT CORNER
“Who wins when union workers strike?” — Sheldon H. Jacobson, Ph.D., a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Read here)
“Why I chose to challenge Bob Menendez” — Kyle Jasey, Senate candidate from New Jersey. (Read here)
⏲️ COUNTDOWN
1 day until the second GOP presidential primary debate.
3 days until the government funding deadline.
🗓 ON TAP TOMORROW
9 p.m.: The second GOP debate airs on Fox Business Network and Univision (how to watch).
