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Fetterman says he’ll work to block ‘absolutely outrageous’ US Steel sale
The Hill ^ | 12/18/2023 | LAUREN SFORZA

Posted on 12/18/2023 1:00:33 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) vowed Monday to work to block the $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel Corp. to Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel, which he described as an “outrageous” move.

The deal was announced Monday, prompting the stock prices of U.S. Steel to jump up 25 percent. Fetterman criticized the sale, saying in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the move was “wrong for workers and wrong for Pennsylvania.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bidenomics; block; clevelandcliffs; coke; fetterman; fetterstein; iron; japan; johnfetterman; nipponsteel; openborders; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; sale; steel; steelmills; stillademocrat; ussteel; ussteelcorp
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So he wants the company to close for good or what?🤔🙄
1 posted on 12/18/2023 1:00:33 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

2 posted on 12/18/2023 1:03:11 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Unlikely those are the only 2 options


3 posted on 12/18/2023 1:04:05 PM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If this clown is against the sale that PROBABLY means WE should be FOR the sale.


4 posted on 12/18/2023 1:06:14 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sen. Fetterman continuing to make friends and influence people...


5 posted on 12/18/2023 1:06:52 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nucor bribes better.


6 posted on 12/18/2023 1:07:24 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No, he is just mad he didnt buy any stock first.


7 posted on 12/18/2023 1:07:27 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

I don’t know about that. Fetterman is a bit of a loose cannon and he says a lot of things the Left doesn’t like. I’m beginning to think he may have been the more conservative choice over crypto-Oprah Dr. Oz after all.


8 posted on 12/18/2023 1:07:46 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Notice he can speak now?

Or his double?

Notice Marxist, satanic, pedophile politicians are all starting to act moderate in the run up to the election?


9 posted on 12/18/2023 1:07:56 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fetterman *might* have a point here. Certain companies are vital to our national security. For example, Electric Boat in Connecticut makes submarines for the Navy. Electric Boat should not be owned by any foreign nation.

Is US Steel in that same category?


10 posted on 12/18/2023 1:08:00 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Sorry, better to say (post #10):

Electric Boat should not be owned by any foreign company.

Is US Steel in that same category?


11 posted on 12/18/2023 1:10:11 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

Didn’t Truman call out the guard on a strike under the pretext that commerce (I believe it was a rail strike) was a matter of national security? I suspect the same rationale could be used for USS and GM....


12 posted on 12/18/2023 1:11:10 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Antoninus

He has been voting in lockstep for every single one of Biden’s far left judges and cabinet nominees.


13 posted on 12/18/2023 1:12:41 PM PST by Tipllub
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Senator Lurch is more MAGA than most of the Rs masquerading as Republicans. He’ll be reelected easily.


14 posted on 12/18/2023 1:15:27 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Notice he can speak now?

Whatever happened to that huge growth that the neanderthal had on his neck? Maybe they converted that growth to a functioning brain?

15 posted on 12/18/2023 1:16:45 PM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Leaning Right

US Steel doesn’t make anything truly vital to American security. No armor plating, they aren’t producers of steel for ships or submarines I’m aware of and their number one product is cold roll steel.

That’s appliances and cars. They still have a pipe mill I believe.

The days of them being the builders of bridges, skyscrapers, overpasses and rail from coast to coast have been gone for 30+ years.


16 posted on 12/18/2023 1:18:17 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Yup—big hit up on the stock price.

Now he can buy puts and kill the deal—if he is smart enough to do that.


17 posted on 12/18/2023 1:19:09 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s right on this.

Stop this merger madness.


18 posted on 12/18/2023 1:21:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Leaning Right
Fetterman *might* have a point here. Certain companies are vital to our national security.

Damn Straight! Imagine if we had sold our steelworks to Japan in the 1920s.

19 posted on 12/18/2023 1:21:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Made in America by the Japaneses.

We can’t do anything ourselves anymore.

Steel is in massive need in wartime so this is a national security nightmare.


20 posted on 12/18/2023 1:25:14 PM PST by Revel
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