Press Releases
Slotkin Statement on General Motors Announcing $4 billion Investment, Including at Lake Orion Plant
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) released the following statement after news that General Motors announced a $4 billion investment, which included a commitment to investing in the Lake Orion plant, supporting thousands of Michigan jobs. “I represented Orion Assembly in Congress, I’ve walked the picket lines with the UAW workers there, and I secured federal funds to support the infrastructure around this plant. I know this plant, and I know how much it means for the Lake Orion community. “Whenever any Big Three auto company invests billions of dollars and supports our auto industry and auto workers – that’s a
Peters, Slotkin, Bergman Call on Small Business Administration to Approve Disaster Declaration to Assist Communities Impacted by Northern Michigan Ice Storms
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (MI) and Elissa Slotkin (MI), as well as U.S. Representative Jack Bergman (MI-01), are calling on President Trump to approve the State of Michigan’s Small Business Administration (SBA) Rapid Administrative Disaster Declaration request following the severe winter storms that impacted Northern Michigan and the Eastern Upper Peninsula in late March. In a letter to SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, the lawmakers expressed their support for Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request to the SBA, which would help provide federal assistance to businesses, homeowners, renters, and private nonprofit organizations that were negatively impacted by the storm. “The economic fallout from the
Slotkin Introduces Legislation to Lower Drug Costs and Crack Down on Big Pharma’s Price Gouging
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Peter Welch (D-VT) in reintroducing the Strengthening Medicare and Reducing Taxpayer (SMART) Prices Act. Building on the historic measures in the Inflation Reduction Act, which allowed for the negotiation of prescription drugs on Medicare, this legislation extends that progress by more than doubling the number of prescription drugs Medicare must negotiate to a minimum of 50 per year. Making more drugs cheaper for individuals on Medicare. “No matter where I am, or who I am talking to in Michigan, one of the most common things Michiganders bring up with me is