Media Ignores Biden Policies in Coverage of Biden at UAW Picket Line

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Media Ignores Biden Policies in Coverage of Biden at UAW Picket Line

Yesterday President Biden joined United Auto Workers (UAW) members on a picket line in Michigan. The visit comes as Biden faces low poll numbers on economic issues. Biden expressed solidarity with workers, but the guy on the left above doesn’t seem to be buying it. The media largely ignored that the primary reason for the strike is the Biden administration’s policies on electric vehicles.

CNN reported that he told the workers, “Folks, you’ve heard me say many times, Wall Street didn’t build this country, the middle class built this country, and unions built the middle class. That’s a fact, so let’s keep going. You deserve what you’ve earned, and you’ve earned a hell of a lot more than you’re getting paid.”

Later in the article, there is only one mention of EVs with CNN noting “the union has criticized the administration’s support of a transition to electric vehicle manufacturing.”

Former President Trump is set to visit workers tomorrow and rightly focused his criticism of Biden. From Just the News:

"Joe Biden's draconian and indefensible Electric Vehicle mandate will annihilate the U.S. auto industry and cost countless thousands of autoworkers their jobs," Trump said. 

Biden signed an executive order in 2021 with the goal of having 50% of all new passenger cars and light trucks have zero emissions by 2030.

Additionally, Biden's goal is for the federal government to go completely electric. His plan requires federal agencies to acquire 100% light-duty zero-emission vehicles by 2027 and 100% medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles by 2035.

"The only thing Biden could say today that would help the striking autoworkers is to announce the immediate termination of his ridiculous mandate," Trump also said. "Anything else is just a feeble and insulting attempt to distract American labor from this vicious Biden betrayal."

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