Slotkin: Trump planning Chinese EV market access in Xi deal — SkimNews
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- Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) warned on X that Trump may allow Chinese cars into the U.S. as part of a broader deal with Xi Jinping, linking the threat to 1.2 million Michigan auto jobs and tying it to Trump's upcoming Washington meeting with Xi "in just a few weeks."
- The White House has announced no plan to roll back auto trade barriers with China, and Slotkin cited no source for the rumor.
- Slotkin and Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) are pushing the bipartisan Connected Vehicle Security Act to ban Chinese vehicles, software, and hardware from the U.S. market; it cleared the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously in July.
- The Biden administration quadrupled the Chinese EV tariff from 25% to 100% in 2024, and Trump has kept it, calling the 100% rate "one of the few things Biden got right."
Why it matters: The open 2026 Michigan Senate race gives Slotkin a clear motive to cast herself as the auto-worker champion, and the source itself flags the rumor as politics. The policy record undercuts the alarm: Trump has kept Biden's 100% Chinese EV tariff and called it one of the few things Biden got right.
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