I'm Mike Rogers: This is why I want Michigan's vote for Senate

Over a twelvemonth ago, my woman Kristi and I were checking retired a market store successful Brighton, portion the clerk explained however much and much families were being forced to instrumentality indispensable nutrient items disconnected the conveyor loop and enactment them backmost connected the support due to the fact that they could nary longer spend them. Our hearts sank. These are moving families who are doing everything right, yet they are struggling to get by.

Over the past 14 months, I’ve traveled crossed Michigan and heard straight from moms and dads, autoworkers, students, and seniors who enactment hard to marque Michigan the top authorities successful our union. It’s been incredibly rewarding, but besides heartbreaking.

We’ve traveled the authorities sharing meals, coffees, and the occasional beer, with folks and asking them, ‘what keeps you up astatine night?’ Their stories are wherefore I’m running.

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Under Vice President Kamala Harris and my opponent, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Michigan families are being crushed by precocious state and market prices brought connected by their overspending. These skyrocketing costs person made the astir costly conveyance to thrust your market cart. The precocious prices don’t halt astatine the registry and the pump. Today, vigor is up implicit 30%, car security is up implicit 55%, and rent is up astir 23%. These soaring prices person near Michiganders surviving paycheck to paycheck.

Former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers speaks connected Day 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 16, 2024.  (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon)

These precocious costs are harming the aboriginal of Michigan’s economy too. Our autoworkers are disquieted astir their jobs being outsourced to China owed to the Harris-Slotkin EV mandate, arsenic EVs necessitate 40% little labour to produce, which means less car jobs successful the authorities that enactment the satellite connected wheels.

Democrats similar Slotkin would alternatively tally from their grounds of supporting EV mandates than speech to the 2,400 autoworkers who were laid disconnected astatine Stellantis, oregon the 1,000 autoworkers who were fto spell astatine GM. I worked successful an car mill to assistance enactment myself done college. I recognize however captious these jobs are to Michigan families.

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I’ve listened to car suppliers who fearfulness they’ll person to fto spell of employees, leaving them incapable to marque caller investments successful their businesses. I’ve heard from car dealers who are being forced to acquisition EVs from car companies for which they person nary customers.

For many, calamity astatine location is different devastating reality. I’ve met with parents who’ve mislaid children to the fentanyl that flows freely crossed our unfastened confederate border. These families are aggravated and disappointed by Democrats similar Harris and Slotkin, who threw retired President Trump’s unafraid borderline policies and alternatively opened our confederate borderline and sat idly by portion transnational transgression cartels harmed our communities.

In the past 4 years, America’s communities person been burdened by more than 10 cardinal amerciable immigrants. Today, we spot higher transgression rates, accrued fentanyl deaths, and empowered cause cartels. A lawman sheriff told maine that his girl was killed aft she inadvertently smoked marijuana that was laced with fentanyl.

We look superior challenges arsenic a federation and a state, but we cognize erstwhile we enactment unneurotic and person beardown enactment successful Washington, we tin Get America Back connected Track.

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When it comes to the economy, we’ll chopped Washington’s wasteful overspending and empower America’s vigor producers truthful we tin go vigor independent. We volition slash prices astatine the pump, trim the outgo to vigor your home, and bring down prices crossed the board. I’ll enactment with President Trump to destruct taxes connected tips, overtime, and Social Security benefits, allowing you to support much of what you earned. Finally, we’ll springiness parents the assistance they request by expanding the kid taxation credit.

I volition unleash Michigan’s manufacturers connected time 1 by eliminating the Harris-Slotkin EV mandate. If Detroit automakers privation to vie successful the EV market, they are escaped to bash so, but I volition not unit them to nutrient vehicles consumers don’t privation to buy.

Michigan Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate Mike Rogers speaks with the quality media earlier erstwhile president and existent Republican statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump speaks astir the economy, inflation, and manufacturing during a run lawsuit astatine Alro Steel connected August 29, 2024, successful Potterville, Michigan. 

I’ll spell a measurement further to support Michigan’s manufacturing assemblage by reducing taxes connected American companies who physique their products successful America. We’ll combat unfair overseas competitors similar China who bargain our intelligence spot and undermine our manufacturers. If overseas trading partners garbage to play fair, we volition enforce tariffs connected their imports. Simple arsenic that.

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Securing our confederate borderline is my apical priority. On time one, I volition enactment with President Trump to reinstate the palmy "Remain successful Mexico" argumentation and restart operation of the borderline partition to support amerciable immigrants disconnected of our streets and deadly fentanyl distant from our kids.

As a calved and raised Michigander, I cognize however hard beingness has go implicit the past 4 years. My committedness to you, present and arsenic your Senator: I volition ever person your back, and I’ll combat each time to Get America Back connected Track.