President Trump Threatens To Pull Electric Car Subsidies Over Gm Plant Closures

(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said he may try to eliminate electric car subsidies for General Motors Co. after it announced it will close factories and lay off thousands of U.S. workers. GM fell as much as 2.9 percent and traded down 2.4 percent at $36.73 at 2:16 p.m. in New York. Trump has repeatedly expressed anger over GM’s plan to close five North American factories and since its chief executive Mary Barra announced the layoffs on Monday. “There’s great disappointment that it seems like GM would rather build its electric cars in China rather than the United States,” Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday, just before Trump’s tweets.

 

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