Gretchen Whitmer

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389 appearances 16 recordings 10 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 17 Apr

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Up First from NPR · Michigan's Governor Fears Interference in this Fall's Elections · 20 Jan 2026 podcast

And that's one of the reasons of many that I think the most important thing that Democratic leaders can do right now is to lead with integrity, to fight back where we must, and to make sure that we're recruiting a great group of Democratic leaders to put on the ballot in 2026 so that we can be ready for 2020.

Well, you know what?

I worked really hard to get a secure new fighter mission at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Macomb County.

It is about $850 million of economic activity to my state.

It was very much an unsure thing if we could get that done.

The president came here and announced it.

But until those planes get here on the ground, I'm going to keep working at it.

Make sure that it happens.

Well, you look at what's going on here.

We've had nine months of contraction when it comes to manufacturing in this country.

You know, if the goal is to onshore jobs and to bring investment to the United States, that's something I think we can all say we want.

But this capricious tariff policy that's ever-changing has absolutely shifted costs onto people, meant that businesses aren't making investments, and has certainly made doing business in this country a lot harder, and that's what we're seeing.

You know, the United Auto Workers are a big, diverse group of people, and some of the leadership says that they like tariffs, but right now we are seeing a contraction of U.S.

manufacturing.

That's job losses, and ultimately their rank-and-file members have got to be able to afford to take care of their families and know that they've got a job to show up to, and that's very much at risk right now.

I'm not working to persuade them to change their mind.

I'm doing what I know to be the right thing to do for the Michigan economy, for the United States economy, and that means fighting to make sure that as they go in to renegotiate the USMCA, they keep the parts that make sense, they improve on the parts that don't, but we can't scuttle it and we can't have a capricious set of rules depending on one person's mood from day to day.

We've got to have a real strategy.

I'm not going to put words in Mary's mouth.

She does a phenomenal job at General Motors, but she's got a hard job to do.

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