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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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To: ChicagoConservative27

This means the Japanese forgot to make their campaign contributions to Fetterman.


21 posted on 12/18/2023 1:25:19 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fetterman is now a populist.


22 posted on 12/18/2023 1:36:36 PM PST by Wuli
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, we’re living here in Allentown
And they’re closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem, they’re killing time
Filling out forms, standing in line


23 posted on 12/18/2023 1:41:37 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Not used to seeing Fetterman with an actual brain that is functioning.


24 posted on 12/18/2023 1:42:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: eeriegeno

I’d guess this is the fetterman body double...

And I won’t believe otherwise until we see a fingerprint match.


25 posted on 12/18/2023 1:45:45 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: Wuli
> Fetterman is now a populist. <

I was struggling to find a word to describe Fetterman as he is today. I think “populist” might be it. And his stances are evidently genuine. Here he is at a pro-Israel rally, draped in an Israeli flag. Folks who are just playing games wouldn’t do that.

However, Fetterman probably still has all his socialist ideals. Time will tell if he moves more to the left or more to the right. Given how “different” Fetterman is, I wouldn’t bet much either way.

26 posted on 12/18/2023 1:46:00 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“John Fetterman would make a better Senator than Dr. Oz” was not on my Bingo Card.


27 posted on 12/18/2023 1:46:11 PM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fettermunster taking a page out of the ol’ Kyrsten Sinema playbook. Dude may be more populist than I thought, but certainly no conservative.


28 posted on 12/18/2023 1:47:51 PM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: Antoninus

You could be onto something...maybe the stroke killed the progressive side of his brain.


29 posted on 12/18/2023 1:48:50 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I 100% support forbidding sale of US Steel to a foreign company.


30 posted on 12/18/2023 1:52:41 PM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show up)
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To: JonPreston
Senator Lurch is more MAGA than most of the Rs masquerading as Republicans. He’ll be reelected easily.

An argument can be made he's more MAGA than Dr. Oz ever would've been.

I truly believe had he been elected, Oz would've immediately denounced Trump and joined the Romney/Collins/Murkowski wing of the GOP Senate.

31 posted on 12/18/2023 1:53:02 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s a rutabaga; he doesn’t know what he wants.


32 posted on 12/18/2023 1:54:33 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: maddog55
You could be onto something...maybe the stroke killed the progressive side of his brain.


33 posted on 12/18/2023 1:55:57 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: eeriegeno

It was a fatty, subcutaneous cyst; it was removed surgically.


34 posted on 12/18/2023 1:59:18 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Japs will produce better steel, be more profitable and make a better work environment for the workers.Let me tell ya, the Japs know how to make steel with the best quality.


35 posted on 12/18/2023 1:59:52 PM PST by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: Drew68; JonPreston

Take a peek at post #26. Can you imagine Mehmet Oz doing the same thing? Draped in the Palestinian flag, maybe. The Israeli flag, not one chance in a million.


36 posted on 12/18/2023 2:02:22 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Antoninus

......I think his atture predilections in going to work in the Senate “probably” reflect his degree of respect for the institution.

That said, I wish the Senate deserved the respect that people like Grassley think it does.

In a conversation this morning, I remarked that I THINK that the number of CLEAN Senators and Representatives (out of 535), as determined by a hard, aggressive, no holes barred investigation, could probably all be put inside one school bus. That’s how much respect I have for them.


37 posted on 12/18/2023 2:04:40 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Leaning Right
Fetterman is exactly what you’d expect from a semi-retarded statewide politician in Pennsylvania. For all his flaws, he can count votes in his state and he knows there isn’t much of an appetite to have a Japanese company buy out one of the oldest heavy industrial players in PA.

U.S. Steel is a mere shadow of its former self, but it is still one of about two dozen Fortune 500 companies with its corporate headquarters in Pennsylvania.

38 posted on 12/18/2023 2:09:08 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Switch parties?

The rats are not very honorable. Fetterman does seem to have some of it in his DNA.


39 posted on 12/18/2023 2:17:37 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Antoninus

Talk’s cheap. Watch how he votes.


40 posted on 12/18/2023 2:23:25 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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