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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Biden, Trump, the UAW and the GOP Debate

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden makes history by joining a United Auto Workers picket line, as Donald Trump plans a speech in Michigan in lieu of joining the 2024 Republican debate at the Reagan library. Plus, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to erase medical debt from credit reports, as the CFPB's funding goes to the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:39.4

President Biden and Trump make dueling visits to Michigan as the United Auto-Worker Strike

0:44.4

grinds forward and as other Republican candidates prepare to debate in California, plus the consumer

0:50.9

financial protection bureau moves to block medical debt from credit reports.

0:56.2

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:59.1

We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member, Manet Uquay Barua and columnist

1:05.3

Alicia Finley.

1:06.3

Let's start with President Biden on Tuesday.

1:09.4

He was on a picket line in Michigan.

1:12.6

This, according to the Washington Post, is the first time that a sitting president has joined

1:17.7

a picket line.

1:18.7

He was there with the head of the United Auto-Worker's president, Sean Fein.

1:22.8

Here is a piece of what President Biden said.

1:25.6

You guys, UAW, you see the automobile industry back in 2008 and before.

1:31.0

Made a lot of sacrifices.

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