Biden Joins UAW Strike, Shutdown Negotiations, Election Worker Turnover
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President biden heads to detroit today to support striking auto workers.

Biden has called himself the most pro union president in history, but his administration is also trying to work with car companies on climate goals and other priorities. So how's he going to walk that line?

And is he going to walk on a picket line? Let's ask, can pr. Political correspondent don gyi, who joins us from his home? And detroit? Hey, good morning. What's the president doing?

So far as you know, we don't know exactly what the drill will be. We do know he will be on the pick of line. We know that much, but there are a lot of questions.

Will be march with a black word, will IT be more of a meet, greet with workers filing past him? But we do know that U. A, W.

President sean fee will be there. He invited biden to come, and i'll just said he did so despite the fact that the U. A.

W. Has not yet endorsed by ignore for reelection. Just yesterday at the White house, biden was asked .

about the trip. Here's this answer. I among back when the the industry on another thank you.

Everything from the tension are 对， 对， that now that the industry is born back, they should participate in that. I just want have done. I looked this up.

President in the united states is not a union job, would be very small union. That was a union job is IT rare for president to .

stand on a picket line. I careful. Listeners may know. I've been covering the Y. W.

For a long time. I be careful listening.

Yes, I do know. Go on. I've not seen anything like this.

I've seen presidential candidates, candidates greeting striking workers. I've toward factories with candidates. I've gone to union halls and picket lines with senators.

But we can find any record of A U. S. President visiting a picket line, talking to striking workers there.

So that alone makes this a big moment, right? For the U. A, W.

N. For all unions, really, picket lines are hugely symbolic. IT means something to have a president actually show up. He really .

involved in the negotiations.

He has kept open lines of communication with the companies, according to the White house. But this is the job of the negotiators, not the president. To find a deal is a balancing act. He wants unions to get good contracts, but IT also wants these companies to be able to lead the world in electric vehicle production. So that's a big chAllenge.

There's also a partisan contrast here because Donald trump is going to be heading to michigan before long. And I want to ask about that done. Been reading this by David lean heart called ours was the shining future goes, it's like a history of the american middle class in the twenties century.

And he talks about the one thousand nine hundred and thirties when there was a president of congress who supported and Foster the union movement. There was a big audit worker strike. There was a big part of that. So that's my question. Now, if bitten is pro union, as he says, has you been able to actively make the environment easier for unions?

Those within one thousand nine hundred and thirty six, thirty seven sit down strikes in flint, michigan. A seminal moment for labor. Roseville was a huge help.

Back then to the U. A, W. Biden has changed the environment for unions. The N, L, R B, the national labor late relations board, is much friendly to unions.

A biden also supports something called the process, which is called protect the right to organize that's big for labor. And republicans in the past always support so called right to work laws in states. Brighton has opposed them, so he has indeed been a friend, if not perfect.

and has done gandy. I thank so much my pleasure. Good talk with.

Here in washington, lawmakers return to the capital with just four days to go until the country faces another government shut.

If IT happens, IT would be the fourth such shut down in the past decade. The last one was in two and nineteen, how speaker Kevin Murphy says he remains hope more than a short term funding, though, can be passed before the deadline .

and political correspondent san Davis john is now Susan. Good morning. Good morning. How does this keep happening?

You know, this situation is unique in that IT wasn't supposed to happen at all. Steve, if you recall how speaker mccarthy and joba and cut a budget deal back in late may, IT raised the debt limit for two years and said spending targets for the same time. The goal was to get us past the presidential election without any of these kind of stand offs within days of that being signed at all. Mccarthy essentially walked away from the deal under pressure from the right and said he would pass bills at lower target levels. The senate upheld their terms of the deal, and since then, the carthy has been trying and fAiling repeatedly to try to prove that he can pass things on a republican .

vote alone OK republican vote alone, very near our majority. So to keep all almost republicans together. But just just I guess that could be that there's four hundred to the four hundred thirty five votes in the house to pass at least a temporary extension. Why does not bartha just ask some democratic votes and go ahead?

He still could know to these dog get bills are routinely passed with by partisan support. The vast majority of lawmakers on capital hill do not want to be in the shutdown scenario. But doing so from a coffee also opens up a very real risk that a member from the far right, most likely my gates of florida, because he's been the loudest on this, we try to introduce a resolution to throw him out of the speakership if he aligns himself with democrats, to try to pass the spending bills.

or even a stop gap. Okay, I I get this. I remember when mccarthy was elected speaker, he had to give his critics powered to more easily, asked him. But I really have a question here. Are we really heading for a shutt down based on what you said that we're really heading for a shutdown because Kevin mccarthy wants to keep his job?

You know, I can't presume how he navigates out of this, but IT is absolutely true. The congress has got itself into this point because of leadership decisions he has made, and his leadership could be on the depending on how all of the shakes out over the course of the next weeks and months. I think this is always senate minority leader.

Mmc o has taken a very different view of this. He said just last week that shutdowns have historically been, quote, a loser for republicans. And I think that view is shared pretty widely by republicans on capital hill.

But mirtha, even in private meeting, dared his colleagues go ahead, submit the resolution, you know, try to fire me if you can. Why doesn't he just tell them that, and then go ahead and do what he thinks he needs to do?

Know a lot of times on the hill, forty sounds like a short time, but in the shutdown standoff, IT can still be a lifetime. I think a lot of times, leadership likes to prove they exhausted every option before the most realistic one has to pass. And the most realistic one is that a stop spending bill and divided washington will need both republican and democratic support to get through a democratic senate and be signed by democratic sight.

You mention having a different opinion of this. And of course, republicans have CoOperated with democrats and done their job. Are there some house republicans who think that are shut down would be politically good for their party?

There is a small number of fringe hardwork republicans who do not think that the politics of a shutdown would be that bad. These republicans intended represent very conservative districts. Bob good of Virginia is one republican who is very publicly said, I don't think a shut down would be that bad for us.

That's a fringe view. I do not think that is a majority view of either republicans or any lawmakers on capital hill. Shutdowns also tend to be very bad for the economy. And I think republicans campaigning are trying to present themselves as the party that is Better for the economy.

Npr political correspondent Susan Davis, so I hope you get sleep when you can over the next few days, since there might be some nights when you don't.

Okay, ever since donal trumps failed effort to overturn his election defeat in twenty twenty, we've heard stories about threats and harassment for local officials who run elections.

It's becoming clear that many of these officials have decided they just don't want to put up with that anymore. A new report out today says that in some states, more than half of the local election officials have .

left their jobs since npr voting correspond. Es park says washington miles.

good night of the facts. So this group issue won, which is a democracy focus advocacy group, has basically been tracking since chiny tiny election officials leaving their jobs. And they look at western states, the eleven states that make up the western united states, and found that half of voters live in a juror's diction, where the chief local election official will be new in two thousand and twenty four compared to twenty. And that is almost certainly tied to the environment changing specifically around election conspiracy theories.

Okay, when we here are more than half of officials in some states have left their jobs. What are you hearing from some of those people?

Yeah, I talked about IT for a while, Daniel, who ran elections in utah county, utah. He's a republican, but he decided not to run for election in twenty twenty two, specifically because of this election conspiracy. He said he spent hundreds of hours over the last couple years researching and debunking these sorts of theories that just kept t popping up from voters.

IT really was like, you know, the twilight zone of government service ground hog day as IT were that every day you wake up and it's the same thing over and over again. IT does matter how much information and data you share, doesn't matter how many concerns you answer, there will just be a new group of critics to, again, dish out the new conspiracy of the day.

I'm thinking about this guy's location because is in utah, which is not the most trumpy of states. But I guess if you have even one hundred or one thousand conspiracy, the senior state, uh, that can keep you really busy. Are there places in this country where it's even worse than in utah?

What we seem to be seeing is that it's worse in places where threats are the worst, that swing states, places with competitive districts. In arizona, fifty five percent of the local chief election officials will be new in two thousand twenty four in va, at numbers fifty nine percent. Kim, why is the former republican cretz to washington? And I taught to her about this. SHE told me, basically, county clerks graded their teeth, pushed through chi chi, in a lot of cases, through tiny chi too, but that this is not a sustainable work. SHE got emotional talking .

to me about IT. Everybody kind of hunker down. And you just began to believe he was just you. And I think now, three years later, were talking about IT. And we're realizing we've been through trauma.

You have remember, Steve, these county clerks are often not paid very much money, and a lot of times they have other responsibility. Lie s in addition of running elections. So then you add in this threat environment, and it's just too much for a lot of people to take.

what does all this mean for twenty, twenty four?

Well, you know, people in new jobs make more mistakes. So what I kept here from experts that they expect new clerks to make more human mistakes. Normal election scenario, there are all sorts of checking baLances to make sure those mistakes don't translate to results. 是。 But in nowadays, you know, human mistakes can mean more conspiracy.

Something went a little wrong. IT didn't actually matter, but it's rest for someone. exactly.

Miles, thanks are going by. I really appreciated. thanks. Tiff, that's in paris. Miles, parks. And that's at first for this tuesday, september twenty six.

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