Harris plans to tout IRA spending at Michigan event

By Gavin Bade | 10/18/2024 01:26 PM EDT

The vice president will visit a union hall to highlight former President Donald Trump’s threat to manufacturing spending.

Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris after speaking at a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Thursday. Susan Walsh/AP

Vice President Kamala Harris will escalate her attacks on Republican nominee Donald Trump’s economic plans Friday, campaigning at a union hall in Michigan whose members’ jobs are threatened by Trump’s agenda.

Harris will visit United Auto Workers Local 652 in Lansing, which represents workers at the General Motors Grand River Assembly plant, according to plans obtained exclusively by POLITICO.

That factory is slated to receive a $500 million grant under Democrats’ 2022 climate and tax law, the Inflation Reduction Act, to convert it from assembling gas-powered cars to electric vehicles.

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Those 650 jobs could be wiped out if Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to rescind unspent funds from the law, Harris will warn the workers.

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