Vance won't commit to $500M federal grant for building EVs at Michigan auto plant
Wright Township — Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance would not commit a second Trump administration to honoring the Biden administration's $500 million federal grant to General Motors Co. to convert a Cadillac sedan assembly plant in Michigan into a future electric vehicle plant.
In July, President Joe Biden's administration announced a $500 million grant for GM to subsidize the conversion of its Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant into an EV plant. It was part of $1.7 billion in grants the Biden administration doled out through its "supply chain conversion" to incentivize automakers to invest in EVs.
During two campaign stops Wednesday in Oakland and Ottawa counties, reporters with The Detroit News asked Vance whether former President Donald Trump would have the federal government involved in subsidizing the transition to electric vehicles as Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's opponent, have done.
In Auburn Hills, speaking to supporters inside an aerospace supplier's plant, Vance said any subsidy of the EV industry should benefit an American supply chain of companies and workers.
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