In 2018, Bill Huizenga called Trump's steel tariffs 'misguided' and warned they could cost West Michigan workers their jobs. In 2025 he said Trump's new tariffs were 'the right thing to do.' That year, three West Michigan employers announced about 350 job cuts.
As the governor's point person in the late 1980s and early '90s, Collins pushed cuts to benefits for workers hurt on the job, asked business to lobby for them, and stood by as the fight shut down Maine's government.
A Meriden metal-fabrication executive told Marshall tariffs had cut demand, squeezed margins and stalled an expansion. Marshall called him the exception and doubled down on the policy that the New York Fed says has pushed up prices on everyday goods.
As Mike Rogers runs for Senate in Michigan, UAW members say that when they came to lobby him in Congress they were met by staffers outside his door. A 2003 letter from his own archive complains about them — and in 2007 he publicly opposed their strike against GM.
In a TV ad, Iowa governor candidate Zach Lahn vows to 'ban H-1B visa holders from being hired by Iowa government and universities.' The private school he co-founded in Wichita petitioned for H-1B workers in 2018 and again in 2021 — with Lahn listed as the main contact.
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Virginia Foxx attacked the federal rule limiting the silica dust that gives coal miners black lung while she held Alliance Resource Partners stock. She has also held stock in AbbVie, which took on Allergan's opioid liabilities — Allergan agreed to pay up to $2.37 billion in a nationwide opioid settlement North Carolina helped lead.
John James took $11,325 from two poultry-industry executives — one whose company settled claims over polluted drinking water and a scheme to suppress poultry workers' wages. As governor, James would pick Michigan's environmental and farm regulators.
Strive, the firm Ramaswamy co-founded in Columbus, moved its headquarters to Dallas. He told a Teamsters podcast he was 'just a shareholder.' An August 2025 SEC filing says he and an affiliated trust controlled all of Strive's Class A voting stock.
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Mike Rogers tells Michigan voters he put himself through college building Chrysler Sebring convertibles on an auto plant assembly line.