Which political party opposes the Michigan Auto bailout?”
The Republicans oppose the Auto bailout, and even have bashed Bush about it, saying that “it would leave the American taxpayer with a tab of tens of billions of dollars while failing to receive any serious concessions from the industry” (John McCain). Republicans are not generally big supporters of unions. Union workers are generally democrats…We saw this first hand at Christmas with my brother-in-law, a retired worker from Rouge Steel in Detroit… Congressional Republicans don’t like the idea of using money from the $700 billion bailout program intended for banks and other financial firms, and the union representing autoworkers says this is too harsh on its members. Others have concerns regarding the use of Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) funds for industry specific bailouts. Not all Republicans, however, were against the bailout. Republican Senators Kit Bond of Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio, who both have auto industry interests in their home states, were among the b
