Mother Jones: Joe Biden Is Bailing Out Papaw's Steel Plant in JD Vance's Hometown. Vance Is Trying to Stop Him.

[Dennis Donovan]

Joe Biden Is Bailing Out Papaw’s Steel Plant in JD Vance’s Hometown. Vance Is Trying to Stop Him.

But the locals of Middletown, Ohio, are jubilant.

Environment
3 hours ago

Oliver Milman



A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city’s economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump’s vice-president.

Its future, however, may hinge upon $500 million in funding from landmark climate legislation that Vance has called a “scam” and is a Trump target for demolition.

In March, Joe Biden’s administration announced the US’s largest ever grant to produce greener steel, enabling the Cleveland-Cliffs facility in Middletown to build one of the largest hydrogen fuel furnaces in the world, cutting emissions by a million tons a year by ditching the coal that accelerates the climate crisis and befouls the air for nearby locals.

In a blue-collar urban area north of Cincinnati that has long pinned its fortunes upon the vicissitudes of the US steel industry, the investment’s promise of a revitalized plant with 170 new jobs and 1,200 temporary construction positions was met with jubilation among residents and unions.

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Joe still working for America!

[gab13by13]

1. Stuff like this needs to be on page 1 of the MSM

But it isn't. NY Times should spare a columnist to investigate this story.

[lostnfound]

2. Biden's policy is to protect American future -- by investing in cleaner tech, tariffs to slow Chinese domination

Trump tariffs are blunt instruments for unclear purposes — appealing to naive populist slogans, perhaps creating black markets or loopholes for his favorite billionaires, or satisfying his foreign puppet masters. Or punishing those who won’t bribe him.

Biden uses tariffs sparingly — to slow or block imports of certain forward-looking technologies — and combines them with incentives, all designed to grow America’s future. Export controls over superconductor chips, AI tech, quantum computing; tariffs on EVs from China — and subsidies for growing supply-chains of key minerals and key technology within the US or its closest allies.

[heckles65]

3. I'm now thinking

that Hillbilly Elegy is complete fiction, or 90% so. I know Vance recycled that BS story of being the grocery line and seeing someone on relief buying seafood / better beef than he hand.

[appalachiablue]

4. Recycled Welfare Queen story for the Ohioans & Appalachians he hates.

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The Sil Val millionaire hillbilly hypocrite and fraud. Thanks for the post.

[Cha]

5. Vance is an Ugly American/Putin Puppet.

Mahalo, Pres Biden.. TY!