Biden promises union workers to keep US Steel ‘American-owned, American-operated’ [Video]

President Joe Biden on Wednesday continued his 2024 campaign swing through Pennsylvania, speaking to the United Steelworkers union as he proposed tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum and denouncing the sale of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, promising union workers he will keep it a “totally American company.”

“U.S. Steel has been an iconic American company for more than a century, and it should remain a totally American company,” he said in Pittsburgh. “American-owned, American-operated by American union steel workers, the best in the world. And it’s — that’s going to happen, I promise you.”

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