PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Six months after fading industrial giant U.S. Steel announced it was looking for a buyer and three months after Nippon Steel, a Japanese steel company, agreed to buy it, it appears that President Joe Biden has finally understood the political impact the sale could have on his reelection and decided to weigh in.
“U.S. Steel has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated,” the president said in a statement released by the White House.
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