On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) reacted to Ford partnering with a Chinese firm to manufacture electric vehicle batteries by stating that “while it would be tough on Ford, I think that we can produce batteries here” and corporate and government policy “must be an America-first policy before it’s a profit-first policy.”
Host David Asman asked, “[A]nother scam that we all have to deal with — and you’ve only got about 30 seconds — a China tech company may be benefiting from U.S. taxpayer subsidies for batteries through a deal that Ford has now made to have this Chinese company work and create batteries — that get subsidies through the whole electric car program. That’s as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act. What do you make of that, how do you stop it as a member of Congress? Quickly.”
Perry…
