President Donald Trump said on Friday that U.S. Steel will partner with the Japanese company Nippon Steel, and remain headquartered in Pittsburgh.
The partnership comes after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-revives-possible-sale-of-u-s-steel-to-japans-nippon-steel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> a review of the possible sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel in April. Former President Joe Biden blocked the $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, citing national security concerns and risks to U.S. supply chains. Now, the two companies will form a &#8220;planned partnership&#8221; that will result in 70,000 jobs, according to the president.
&#8220;I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, U.S. Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;For many years, the name, &#8216;United States Steel&#8217; was synonymous with Greatness, and now, it will be again. This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel and Nippon Steel, which will create at least 70,000 jobs, and add $14 Billion Dollars to the U.S. Economy.&#8221;
U.S. Steel is facing major losses, reporting a net loss of $116 million in the first quarter of 2025, but the steel industry remains an important part of the economy in America, <a href="https://www.zippia.com/steel-worker-jobs/demographics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employing</a> over 44,000 people.
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In December, one month before Biden blocked the deal, Trump said he also opposed the sale to the foreign company, vowing to &#8220;make U.S. Steel Strong and Great Again.&#8221; The White House confirmed that Trump received a recommendation from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which reviewed the proposed deal between the American and Japanese steel companies, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-23/trump-backs-us-steel-nippon-partnership-following-cfius-review" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Trump reportedly spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba over the phone on Friday, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Japan&#8217;s top trade negotiator to discuss tariffs. It&#8217;s unclear if either of those conversations included talks about the U.S. Steel-Nippon deal. Trump added that he will speak at a &#8220;BIG Rally&#8221; in Pittsburgh on Friday, May 30.
&#8220;The bulk of that Investment will occur in the next 14 months. This is the largest Investment in the History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;My Tariff Policies will ensure that Steel will once again be, forever, MADE IN AMERICA. From Pennsylvania to Arkansas, and from Minnesota to Indiana, AMERICAN MADE is BACK. I will see you all at US Steel, in Pittsburgh, on Friday, May 30th, for a BIG Rally. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!&#8221;
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

U.S. Steel

‘Made In America’: Trump Says U.S. Steel Will Remain In Pittsburgh, Partner With Japanese Company

Donald Trump

Economy

Japan

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh

Steel industry

Steel workers

U.S.

President Donald Trump announced that Japan&#8217;s Nippon Steel would invest heavily in U.S. Steel rather than purchase the company, reversing a $14.9 billion takeover proposal blocked by the Biden administration.
In early January, then-President Joe Biden blocked Nippon’s bid for U.S. Steel over &#8220;national security concerns,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/trump-says-nippon-will-invest-heavily-in-us-steel-rather-than-purchase-the-company.html">reported</a> CNBC.
President Biden <a href="https://m.usw.org/bargaining-update/biden-makes-good-on-promise-to-have-steelworkers-backs/">said</a> at the time that the acquisition “would place one of America’s largest steel producers under foreign control and create risk for our national security and our critical supply chains.&#8221;
Although President Trump agreed with Biden’s decision, Friday’s announcement comes as what Trump deems a mutually beneficial compromise between both sides, “They’ll be looking at an investment rather than a purchase. … They’ve agreed to invest heavily in U.S. Steel, as opposed to own it.”
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba affirmed that Nippon would provide technology to improve U.S. manufacturing, saying, “It is not one sided. It will be reciprocal, it will be mutually beneficial.”
U.S. Steel’s share price dipped by nearly 6% to close at $36.98 after the president’s remarks, likely due to expectations of reduced Nippon investment compared to the initial $14.9 billion plan.
The specifics of the deal are unclear, with Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-ishiba-ussteel-nippon-12dc0eb2239478d571a48f16abcf7238">saying</a> that he will meet with executives on both sides “to mediate and arbitrate” terms next week.
Both Nippon and U.S. Steel have pressed to overturn the initial block on the acquisition in court, contending the previous administration’s decision exceeded its constitutional limits.
Though Nippon is pivoting from a complete takeover to a significant capital injection, legal challenges remain regarding the government’s previous injunction, potentially affecting the timeline of any finalized arrangement.
Meanwhile, Cleveland-Cliffs continues to show interest in a possible purchase, with sources indicating that it discussed joining forces with another major steel producer to present a competitive offer in the high-$30-per-share range.
Nippon’s initial plan was to offer $55 per share, placing a premium on the stock. Should a fresh proposal from Cleveland-Cliffs materialize, it may include the divestiture of key U.S. Steel assets, although specifics have yet to be confirmed. Players in the steel industry are closely monitoring shifting negotiations while awaiting potential federal responses to any new bids.

President Trump And Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Hold News Conference

Trump Brokers Compromise For Japanese Investment In U.S Steel, Avoids Acquisition

Free Trade

Trump Administration

President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> announced Friday that he would block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese manufacturing giant Nippon Steel. 
Biden said that he was making the move over concerns about national security and supply chains. Nippon had offered to buy U.S. Steel for $15 billion and said it would invest billions in the U.S. if the sale went through. 
“It is my solemn responsibility as President to ensure that, now and long into the future, America has a strong domestically owned and operated steel industry that can continue to power our national sources of strength at home and abroad; and it is a fulfillment of that responsibility to block foreign ownership of this vital American company,” Biden said in a statement. “U.S. Steel will remain a proud American company – one that’s American-owned, American-operated, by American union steelworkers – the best in the world.”
He said that the decision was made after a committee of national security and trade experts determined that the “acquisition would place one of America’s largest steel producers under foreign control and create risk for our national security and our critical supply chains.”
While the United Steelworkers union opposed the proposed sale, U.S. Steel said last week that it hoped Biden would approve the deal.
&#8220;It is the best way, by far, to ensure that U. S. Steel, including its employees, communities, and customers, will thrive well into the future,&#8221; the company <a href="https://investors.ussteel.com/news-events/news-releases/detail/706/u-s-steel-statement-on-cfius-referring-decision-on" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;It is our hope that President Biden will do the right thing and adhere to the law by approving a transaction that so clearly enhances U.S. national and economic security.&#8221;
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buyer-beware-trump-promises-to-block-sale-of-u-s-steel-to-japanese-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first</a> came out against the proposed sale in March 2024, three months after it was first announced. His opposition also came months after President-elect Donald Trump publicly opposed the deal in January 2024, saying he would block the deal if elected president. 
Trump again reiterated last month that he would not allow Nippon to buy U.S. Steel. 
“I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. Steel being bought by a foreign company, in this case Nippon Steel of Japan,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113586503722263487" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social. “Through a series of Tax Incentives and Tariffs, we will make U.S. Steel Strong and Great Again, and it will happen FAST! As President, I will block this deal from happening. Buyer Beware!!!”
U.S. Steel was once the largest company in the world and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/biden-blocks-japans-nippon-steel-acquiring-us-steel-rcna186073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employed</a> as many as 340,000 workers, but now ranks as just the 24th largest steel producer globally as of 2023,  <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-us-steel-pittsburgh-nippon-japan-67042a39de838f4cccd45d7a77ec0a40" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the World Steel Association. Nippon was the fourth largest producer as of 2023.

US Steel Assets Face Chopping Block Without Japan Deal

Biden Blocks Sale Of U.S. Steel To Japanese Company

Executive

Joe Biden

Politics

President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said Monday that he would block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese manufacturing giant Nippon Steel. 
Trump frequently spoke about his opposition to the sale while campaigning, saying he would prevent the deal from happening through tax incentives and tariffs. Nippon has proposed acquiring the American company for $15 billion. 
“I am totally against the once great and powerful U.S. Steel being bought by a foreign company, in this case Nippon Steel of Japan,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113586503722263487" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social. “Through a series of Tax Incentives and Tariffs, we will make U.S. Steel Strong and Great Again, and it will happen FAST! As President, I will block this deal from happening. Buyer Beware!!!”
Shortly after the sale of U.S. Steel was announced in December 2023, Trump said he would block the deal if elected president again. 
“I would block it instantaneously. Absolutely,” Trump said. “We saved the steel industry. Now, US Steel is being bought by Japan. So terrible.”
The Japanese company said in an email that it would invest billions in the United States as part of the deal. 
“Nippon Steel is determined to protect and grow U. S. Steel in a manner that reinforces American industry, domestic supply chain resiliency, and U.S. national security,” the company said. “We will invest no less than $2.7 billion into its unionized facilities, introduce our world-class technological innovation, and secure union jobs so that American steelworkers at U. S. Steel can manufacture the most advanced steel products for American customers.&#8221;
The United Steelworkers union has lobbied against the measure, saying that it would be harmful to domestic production and a national security risk. 
“Altogether, the proposed sale is bad for workers, our communities and the domestic industry – as well as our national security, critical infrastructure and domestic supply chains. We must continue to resist it – together,” the union said Monday. 
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After Trump came out against the deal in January, both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-swipes-yet-another-trump-policy-this-time-about-steel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed</a> his lead. Biden said he didn’t support the agreement in March, while Harris announced her opposition in September, a few months into her presidential campaign. 
The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment is <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/03/trump-repeats-vow-to-block-nippon-steels-bid-for-us-steel.html">currently</a> evaluating the deal.
U.S. Steel was once the largest steel producer in the world, but <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-us-steel-pittsburgh-nippon-japan-67042a39de838f4cccd45d7a77ec0a40">according</a> to the World Steel Association, it was the 27th-largest steelmaker in 2023. Nippon Steel was the fourth-largest steelmaker last year in an industry that has become dominated by China.

Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Campaigns In Pennsylvania

‘Buyer Beware’: Trump Promises To Block Sale Of U.S. Steel To Japanese Company

Kamala Harris

Tariffs

If you&#8217;ve ever worked in some capacity on procuring a federal government contract, then you&#8217;re familiar with maybe the single most obvious and grotesque <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-contracting-is-the-next-dei-target-race-affirmative-action-supreme-court-ca60eaf4?st=567k88x0e9wat4y&amp;reflink=article_gmail_share">form</a> of affirmative action that exists in this country.
It&#8217;s been around for a long time. As far back as Nixon&#8217;s administration, gender and racial affirmative action became mandatory for federal construction projects in the city of Philadelphia. Any federal contractor that hired fewer than 80% of the local share of “any race, sex, or ethnic group” risked losing their contract — and being barred from working with the federal government entirely. Within a year, those requirements applied to contracts with all federal agencies, nationwide.
As an attorney named Michael Toth <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-contracting-is-the-next-dei-target-race-affirmative-action-supreme-court-ca60eaf4?st=567k88x0e9wat4y&amp;reflink=article_gmail_share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> recently in the Wall Street Journal, those rules are still in place today, half a century later. In fact, they&#8217;ve only expanded in scope. Now the federal government can <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/welcome-to-the-world-of-minority-contracting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">award</a> no-bid contracts to so-called &#8220;minority-owned&#8221; businesses in many cases.
The end result of this policy has been exactly what you&#8217;d expect. For one thing, contractors know that they need to employ a token number of women and minorities in order to get any kind of government grants. Additionally, so-called &#8220;minority-owned&#8221; contractors often get government contracts, and then subcontract them out to contractors who didn&#8217;t meet the diversity quota.
This is all highly inefficient — it&#8217;s fraud, basically — and it&#8217;s resulted in taxpayers being forced to waste a lot of money. As City Journal reported recently, some government projects <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/welcome-to-the-world-of-minority-contracting">cost</a> nearly 20% more than they would have without these affirmative action programs. Multiply that by hundreds of billions of dollars&#8217; worth of federal government contracts every year, and you begin to see the problem.
Instead of ending this social engineering, and simply allowing markets to work without crude demographic manipulation, the Biden administration&#8217;s allies in state and local governments are doubling down. They&#8217;ve decided that they know exactly what the demographic makeup of each industry should be — and it just so happens that white men aren&#8217;t wanted in any industry.
I&#8217;ll start with Maine, where this week, Democrats have determined that the field of construction — where blacks and hispanics make up nearly 40% of the workforce — simply isn&#8217;t diverse enough. Specifically, the governor, Janet Mills, has determined that more women need to be construction workers. And therefore, Mills has signed an executive order that, among other things, will use state and federal funding to prioritize construction projects that involve women. Watch:
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&#8220;We need construction workers, especially women, now.&#8221; Why? Why especially women? This is odd coming from Janet Mills, who spent her college years traveling through Europe and learning French, before going to law school and spending the rest of her life in government. What does Janet Mills know about construction, exactly? How is she qualified to say anything about what the construction industry needs, or who’s most qualified to fill those needs?
As always, this DEI initiative is a solution in search of a problem. There is absolutely no reason to believe and not a single shred of evidence to suggest that the construction industry was in any way suffering due to a lack of female representation. There isn’t one problem in the construction industry that you can point to and say: “You know what will solve that? More women!” That’s because no problems can be solved by involving more females in construction. And on top of that, there is no evidence at all that any qualified female has ever been denied a job in construction due to her sex. By all accounts, fewer women are in construction for two simple reasons: First because most women don&#8217;t want to do construction. And second because men are generally much better at it.
Of course, it&#8217;s completely rational for women to dislike the idea of working in construction. It&#8217;s one of the most <a href="https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1787885252847013976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dangerous</a> jobs you can have.
<div id="attachment_734755" style="width: 721px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-734755" class="wp-image-734755 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-711x576.jpg" alt="Source: bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. AEI." width="711" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-711x576.jpg 711w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-300x243.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt-768x622.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/vvvv-rt.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px" />Source: bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. AEI.</div>
As you can see from this chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it&#8217;s among the top 20 most dangerous jobs, along with roofers, police officers, truck drivers, miners, farmers and ranchers. And you&#8217;ll never guess what all of these top-20 most dangerous jobs in America have in common. They&#8217;re all overwhelmingly done by men. Construction is more than 97% male-dominated, and it has a fatal injury rate of 15 per 100,000 workers. That&#8217;s on par with cement and concrete manufacturing, which is also more than 97% male-dominated.
These jobs can be very dangerous — and in fact would be even more dangerous for women.
That’s not just because women are weaker and more injury prone — though they are. It’s also because a large percentage of the deaths on construction sites are caused at least in part by heat exhaustion. It just so happens that women are more sensitive to temperatures — both hot and cold. Any married man is very familiar with this phenomenon. One minute your wife is complaining that she’s freezing to death, you adjust the thermostat by one degree, and now she insists that the house is a sweltering desert.
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So that is just one of the reasons why men tend to do most of the physically demanding jobs outside. Men tend to do most of the physically demanding and dangerous jobs everywhere. This is not a privilege that men have but rather a responsibility they carry. The takeaway from this shouldn’t be that we need more women doing these jobs. It&#8217;s that men (and white men in particular, historically) have had a unique and essential role in building and maintaining our civilization. We would not have this civilization without them.
Rather than this constant drumbeat of scolding and lecturing and guilt and resentment — and treating the presence of this group as a problem that must be solved or a cancer that must be treated — the appropriate attitude is one of appreciation and gratitude. Men built every building you’ve ever been in, every bridge you’ve ever crossed, every road you’ve ever driven on. Sure, if you’re a bitter, resentful little brat, maybe that fact will make you feel somehow diminished. But if you’re a smart, mature, decent person, instead of demanding that we kick men out of these industries, you will instead have some gratitude. You will say, “Thank you men. Thank you for everything you’d done for civilization, and for me personally.” That should be our answer to the Janet Mills of the world. Rather than going on the defensive and justifying ourselves, men as a group should say to her: “Hey you ungrateful child. The correct response is thank you. Didn’t your parents teach you manners?”
This same logic applies to race as well. These days, of course, as noted, it’s not just white men in the construction industry. But historically speaking white men have been uniquely indispensable contributors to western civilization. Most modern technology was invented by white men. Most of the great discoveries were made by white men. Most of our wars were fought and won predominately by white men. Most of the advances in medicine and science have been achieved by white men. Most of the great leaders, artists, thinkers, and philosophers in western history have been white men. And yet this is the one group most demonized — most hated for the sin of providing us with so much of what we value. A sane society would be finding ways to get this group more involved in things, given its incredible track record. Instead we go the other way.
Outside of communist countries, modern western societies are the only ones in the history of the world that go out of their way to identify the people most responsible for building and maintaining their societies — only to villainize and alienate those same people.
And we&#8217;re doing it more and more. This isn&#8217;t just happening in the federal government or in Maine. It&#8217;s also happening in the most populated city in the United States. Officials in New York have just proudly announced that they&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-jfk-airport-construction-sets-record-mwbe-participation-23-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded</a> more than $2 billion in contracts for the purposes of renovating JFK Airport. And all of that money has gone to so-called &#8220;MWBE&#8217;s,&#8221; which is short for &#8220;Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises.&#8221; 
As the governor&#8217;s <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-jfk-airport-construction-sets-record-mwbe-participation-23-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release reads</a>: &#8220;This is the largest participation of MWBE firms on any public-private partnership project in New York State history. &#8230; With today’s announcement JFK surpasses the LaGuardia Airport redevelopment, which set the previous New York State record for MWBE participation.&#8221;
In other words, no one wanted reparations. Even in New York, it wasn&#8217;t a popular idea. So the state government just decided to do it anyway by handing out money on the basis of race and gender. They&#8217;ve chosen airports as their preferred vehicle to launder this money, evidently.
If you watch the New York Port Authority&#8217;s press conference announcing this funding for the JFK renovation, you&#8217;ll see exactly what&#8217;s motivating these officials. It&#8217;s basically an hour of various New York officials, including a sitting member of Congress, celebrating the fact that they excluded white-owned businesses from receiving taxpayer funding. Here&#8217;s how it began:
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This is the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announcing — to applause — that JFK&#8217;s renovation involved as few white men as possible. He&#8217;s not proud of the quality of the renovation. He doesn&#8217;t talk about how the airport is going to be better as a result of this work. Instead, he&#8217;s just happy white people didn&#8217;t have a role in it. Never mind the fact that white people — white men, specifically — have pretty much single handedly built the entire aviation industry, beginning with inventing the airplane. Now we need to get them all out, for some reason.
And then he goes on to explain that the government did everything it could to ensure that non-white people secured the government contracts for JFK, by preparing specialized, segregated &#8220;boot camps&#8221; to help them along in the application process. So he&#8217;s acknowledging that this was not a remotely fair or merit-driven process at any point. It was the purest form of affirmative action. He&#8217;s not celebrating that these minority businesses earned the job; he&#8217;s celebrating that the government rigged the process.
This is illegal, obviously, and it gets worse. Here&#8217;s Congressman Gregory Meeks explaining why it was so important to discriminate against white male contractors:
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The congressman says it&#8217;s important for racial and gender discrimination (in the form of DEI) to be a part of everything New York does, but he doesn&#8217;t really say why. He gets some applause when he says it&#8217;s good for &#8220;business,&#8221; but he doesn&#8217;t elaborate on that point.
That&#8217;s probably because, as I&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imLMG7C6oF4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> before, it&#8217;s demonstrably false that DEI is good for business. The only time DEI is good for business is if you&#8217;re a non-white business and you&#8217;re looking to get a government payout. In that case, DEI is good for business. For everyone else, it&#8217;s a massive economic drain at a minimum. It&#8217;s probably also a safety risk.
Even if racial discrimination were somehow profitable, that still wouldn&#8217;t justify it. And it&#8217;s pretty remarkable that a sitting member of Congress would imply otherwise. Only a deep-seated hatred of white men would explain what we&#8217;re seeing here. As if there was any doubt about that, the next speaker at this press conference — a New York assemblymember named Alicia Hyndman — came right out and admitted that, yes, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on. Watch:
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So, the woman can&#8217;t figure out how Zoom works, apparently, but she&#8217;s in charge of renovating the airport because, with apologies to white people, the airport isn&#8217;t for them anymore. It&#8217;s for people who look like Alicia Hyndman now: &#8220;We knew it was for us. For us, by us, to make sure this community that we represent looks like us.&#8221;
To be clear, she&#8217;s talking about an airport. This is a public facility that isn&#8217;t &#8220;for&#8221; or &#8220;by&#8221; any racial group. And Alicia Hyndman is a public official. She supposedly represents a &#8220;community&#8221; that includes white people. But here she is, proudly declaring that the airport is &#8220;for&#8221; black people. And her &#8220;community&#8221; doesn&#8217;t include people who don&#8217;t &#8220;look like&#8221; her.
So white men don&#8217;t get to build airports anymore. The airports aren&#8217;t for them. Neither are construction jobs. You have to wonder what, if anything, these politicians want white men to do. Should they ever receive any funding from the government? Should they be allowed to compete for government contracts on a fair and equal playing field? Should would white men build, maintain, and run their own airport? I’d be quite happy to use that airport, personally. I think most people would be.
Really, though, everyone knows what’s happening here. Her goal, and the goal of her party, isn&#8217;t simply to erase white men from history. Their goal is to erase white men from the workforce, as punishment for doing everything so well, for so long. This isn&#8217;t a secret at this point. As conservatives spend all their time talking about college campuses, their enemies are being very methodical and explicit about what they&#8217;re doing — one airport renovation and construction job at a time.

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White Men Deserve Gratitude, Not Demonization

Construction

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Equity

Farmers

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Race

Women

On Labor Day, when most Americans have the day off, President Biden spoke at a Pennsylvania rally which was open to members of the local United Steelworkers of America Local Union, but the turnout didn’t exactly reach record numbers.
The meeting was held outside the United Steelworkers of America Local Union 2227 hall in West Mifflin. Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“While some professional photos from the event concealed just how sparse the crowd was, others showed the paltry number of people who showed up to hear the president&#8217;s words,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11183569/Pitifully-small-crowd-union-workers-rock-support-President-Bidens-Labor-Day-speech.htmlMarkl;e">The Daily Mail</a> reported, noting that the “miniscule” crowd “could be described as being in the dozens.”
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If Biden loses union support in the state in which he was born, he may well lose the state in 2024 if he runs again, as he won the state by a scant 80,000 votes in 2020.
In 2020, roughly 12% of Pennsylvania’s workers belonged to a union. United Steelworkers endorsed Biden that year. When Biden launched his presidential campaign in 2019, he claimed, “I’m a union man, period.”
In mid-October 2020, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/union-voters-are-at-center-of-trump-vs-biden-battle-for-pennsylvania-11602939600">noted</a>, “Since June, Mr. Biden has visited Pennsylvania 13 times, five of which have been focused on union issues. &#8230; The campaign is targeting union-heavy ZIP Codes in Pennsylvania with Facebook and YouTube ads touting Mr. Biden’s union endorsements.”
Days after Biden was elected in 2020, he <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/biden-promises-to-be-the-most-pro-union-president-and-rep.html">promised</a> that “unions are going to have increased power” in his administration, enthusing, “I want you to know I’m a union guy that’s not anti-business.”
Meanwhile, many iron workers in south-central <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> have no patience for President Biden’s $500 billion student loan giveaway, and they spoke out against what they feel is the unfairness of the plan.
Various workers at the Donsco, Inc. iron foundry aired their grievances to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-manufacturing-workers-blast-bidens-student-loan-handout">Fox News</a> about Biden’s intention to cancel $10,000 of borrowers’ student loans if they make less than $125,000 annually while Pell Grant recipients in the same boat will receive $20,000.
“It&#8217;s not going to affect the people that are here, the people that are actually out doing all the work,” said supervisor Jim Davis. “He said he’s going to help the people in the bigger cities because that&#8217;s what [he] wants.”
“A lot of those families are rich,” snapped cancer survivor Francisco Hernández, who says he returned to work after retiring because of the inflation that has surged under Biden. “They have the money to pay it off, so they get a break and they get to sit on their couch and their kids are stuck with a degree they can&#8217;t even use.”
“The sad part is the rich aren&#8217;t going to pay for this, we are,” he continued. “Everything is a gift, but that goes on the back of our debt and the taxpayers are the ones who have to cover it.”
“I think it&#8217;s a bad idea,” echoed Iron worker Tony Bell. “Donsco is always hiring people, these college kids can always come here on their time off and work and pay their debt back.”
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Biden Rally For PA Steelworkers Draws ‘Miniscule’ Crowd

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