Washington (AP) – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Oval came together in the office specially President Donald Trump To file a lawsuit he does not want to hear: the automotive industry he said he wanted to save was injured Tariffs.
The Democrat came with a slide deck to give points in a visual presentation. Tuesday was a success for someone who was seen as a contestant for his party’s White House nomination in 2028.
Whitmer’s coping strategy Donald Trump While expressing that they are against the agenda, he emphasizes the enigma for himself and other democratic leaders while trying to protect the interests of his states. It is a dynamic that Whitmer circulates in a very different way from many other democratic governors.
Michigan State University Political Professor Matt Grossman said Whitmer was unique to “direct appeal” specifically for Trump.
It was him Third meeting with Trump He’s been in the White House since he took office in January. However, in April, when Whitmer was unaware, he was much less public than time. Improvisation news conference It embarrassed him so much, covered his face with a folder.
On Tuesday, the President, tariffs Michigan, a state that helps to surrender the White House in 2024, may be severe. Whitmer brought federal support for rescue efforts after an ice storm and tried to delay changes in Medicaid.
Trump did not offer a certain commitment, according to people who are not authorized to discuss the public and are familiar with the special conversation that describes only anonymity.
Whitmer is not the only person to show potentially harmful results, including factory business losses, lower profits and upcoming price increases, Trump’s import taxes, which will be economic salvation for American production.
White House spokesman Kush Desai said that no other president said, “The dominance of the American automobile industry did not show greater interest than President Trump”. Desai said that the trade frames negotiated by the administration will open Japanese, Korea and European markets for vehicles made on the assembly lines in Michigan.
However, Trump’s preferred social assistance tends to be presentations leaping by technology CEOs. On Wednesday, at the OVAL office, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave the President a customized glass plaque with a gold base for promising Cook’s investment of $ 600 billion. Trump claims that none of these figures have yet emerged in economic data, but it brings $ 17 trillion investment commitments.
Under the executive orders and trade frames series, US automobile manufacturers face 50% in steel and aluminum, 30% of parts from China and 25% of goods not within the scope of the 2020 trade agreement of Canada and Mexico. This makes the United States’s automobile manufacturers and parts suppliers disadvantaged against German, Japanese and South Korean vehicles, which faced 15% import taxes by Trump last month.
Furthermore, last week, Trump threatened a 100% tariff in computer chips, an integral part of cars and trucks, but would exclude a fireworks at home at home at home.
Whitmer’s two previous meetings with Trump resulted in earnings for Michigan. However, tariffs represent a significant wider demand of a president who implements them in a more aggressive way in the face of criticism.
The materials in the presentation that Whitmer brought to the meeting and obtained by Associated Press said how trade with Canada and Mexico has invested $ 23.2 billion in Michigan since 2020.
General Motors, Ford and Stellantis operate 50 factories throughout the state, while more than 4,000 facilities support the supply chain. In total, the sector is the backbone of the Michigan economy by supporting approximately 600,000 production businesses.
Whitmer summarized the main points of the materials to Trump and left copies with his team.
According to Michigan State Professor Grossman, a key question is whether Trump’s import taxes can react to the tariffs if the promised economic growth will react.
“Everyone realizes that Michigan is a critical swing state and the automobile industry has a great influence not only directly but symbolically, Gr said Grossman.
AP VoteCast found that Trump won Michigan in 2024, because two -thirds of voters described economic conditions poor or “not so good”. Approximately 70% of the voters who felt negative about the economy supported the Republican. The state was essentially divided about whether the tariffs were positive, and Trump received 76% of voters who saw them positively.
General Motors, Ford and Stellantis’s presidents warned that tariffs will repeatedly reduce company profits and weaken global competitiveness. Their efforts have led to a little more than a one -month pause, which aims to give time to adapt to companies. Repriev did very little to blunt financially.
Only in the second quarter, Ford reported costs about $ 800 million tariff, GM import taxes cost $ 1.1 billion, he said. These costs can make it difficult to re -invest in new domestic factories, a target of Trump.
Ford CEO, Jim Farley, said in the company’s call for earnings, “We expect tariffs to be a clear wind of approximately 2 billion dollars this year, and we will continue to closely monitor the developments and interact with policy makers to ensure that US cars and customers are not disadvantaged by the policy change.”
Since Trump returned to the White House, Michigan has lost 7,500 manufacturing business, according to the Bureau of Statistics.
Smaller suppliers also felt tension.
Detroit Axle, a distributor of automobiles operated by the family, became one of the more vocal companies on the impact of the tariffs in Michigan. The company initially announced that he had to close a warehouse and leave more than 100 workers, but he said he could at least keep the facility open for now.
M Mi Mesheinesh, the owner of Detroit Axle, said, “It is not a market that can survive right now, who can develop.”
