Trump Officials Visit Detroit Auto Show as Energy Costs Skyrocket & Thousands of MI Autoworkers Are Laid Off

Detroit, Mich. — Days after Trump’s visit to Michigan, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin are visiting the Detroit Auto Show to try to spin the administration’s terrible economic record. 

Reporters attending the Detroit Auto Show should ask how Trump and Republicans are making cars more affordable when they are:

1. Raising energy costs—Michigan utility rates have jumped 11% since Trump took office.
2. Cutting jobs—Last week, General Motors began permanently laying off 1,100 workers at its Factory Zero plant in Detroit.
3. Ending consumer EV credits—Americans saved more than $3.3 billionwith these tax credits in 2023 alone, which expired thanks to Trump’s “one big beautiful bill,” shrinking demand for EVs in the United States and costing GM and Ford more than $25 billion in EV-related losses.
4. Ceding EV market share—China was at the WTO trying to get the EV manufacturing tax credits struck down, which the Trump Administration has now done. Now that China is surging ahead in EV market share in Europe and across the globe, are you ready to concede the EV race and allow  China to dominate the future of global auto exports?

Trump has called the affordability crisis a “hoax” and at the Detroit Economic Club earlier this week, said affordability was “a fake word by Democrats.” The people of Michigan overwhelmingly disagree and know the truth about how in just one yearTrump and Congressional Republicans have made everything worse. 

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