WASHINGTON, DC — Workers in Michigan automobile plants are “actually encouraged” by President Donald Trump’s status quo-altering tariffs despite short-term uncertainty, according to Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), who told Breitbart News that people are “willing to make that trade off for long-term more jobs.”
The state’s ninth congressional district, which McClain has represented since 2023, is home to many auto workers employed at nearby plants, including Stellantis’s stamping plants in Warren and Sterling.
Both of those locations are gearing up for temporary layoffs as the auto giant pauses production at some of its assembly plants in Mexico and Canada, including just over the border in Windsor, Ontario, due to Trump’s tariffs, the Detroit Free Press reported.
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