Fetterman vows to fight sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese firm

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman on Monday vowed to block the sale of U.S. Steel to the Japanese firm Nippon.

Reports of the sale emerged on Monday, with Nippon Steel agreeing to a purchase price of $14.9 billion for the iconic American firm, according to Reuters.

"The acquisition of [U.S. Steel] by a foreign company is wrong for workers and wrong for Pennsylvania. I’m gonna do everything I can to block it," Fetterman posted on X.

"I just have to say it's absolutely outrageous that they have sold themselves to a foreign nation and a company," he said. "Steel is always about security as well, too. And I am committed to doing anything I can do, from using my platform and my position in order to block this... I am going to fight for the steel workers and the union way of life here as well, too. And we cannot ever allow them to be screwed over or left behind."

Fetterman made the remarks in a video filmed outside the Edgar Thompson plant in Braddock, Penn., from the roof of his own home.

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