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Democrats introduce bill to protect Gordie Howe Bridge from Trump threats
Democrats aim to block federal delays on the Gordie Howe Bridge opening after Trump threatened interference, citing risks to Michigan jobs and cross-border trade worth nearly $60 billion.
- Democrats have started investigating President Donald Trump's threat to delay the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Ontario and Michigan due to compensation demands and false claims about U.S. content in the bridge construction.
- Trump's threat came shortly after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the competing Ambassador Bridge and opposes the Gordie Howe Bridge project.
- Representative Robert Garcia accused Lutnick of favoring a politically connected billionaire donor family over American commerce and requested communications related to both bridges, criticizing the situation as corrupt and harmful to U.S. economic interests.
- Democratic House members introduced the Michigan-Canada Partnership Act to prevent federal officials from blocking the bridge's opening without congressional or Michigan governor approval, but the bill's success depends on support from the Republican-controlled House.
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Canada and the Constitutional Problem Beneath the Bridge
President Trump has declared that he'll block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge - a major infrastructure project connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario - unless "the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given [Canada]."
Three reasons the Gordie Howe Bridge is worth a fight
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Stephen Henderson’s “I Have Questions” Substack. Henderson is the founder and executive advisor for BridgeDetroit. It has been at least a 14-year journey from concept to almost-open for the Gordie Howe Bridge across the Detroit River. Fourteen years of forging an unusual deal, wrangling state, federal and international bureaucracy, community negotiations and input, and a painstaking, arduous site prepa…
The Democrats claim to have opened an investigation into the threat of US President Donald Trump delaying the opening of the Gordie-Howe International Bridge.
U.S. lawmakers move to block interference in Gordie Howe bridge as scrutiny grows over Ambassador Bridge meeting
As questions mount in Washington over a reported meeting between the Trump administration and the owner of the Ambassador Bridge, U.S. lawmakers are taking fresh steps to protect the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
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