{"id":1958487,"date":"2023-06-27T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ford-cuts-american-jobs-after-biden-admin-boosts-company-with-green-subsidies\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:19:37","slug":"ford-cuts-american-jobs-after-biden-admin-boosts-company-with-green-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ford-cuts-american-jobs-after-biden-admin-boosts-company-with-green-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford cuts US jobs after Biden administration supports company with green subsidies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fford-cuts-american-jobs-after-biden-admin-boosts-company-with-green-subsidies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1958487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Ford Announces Layoffs Despite Green Subsidies<\/h2>\n<p>Ford has made the surprising decision to lay off at least 1,000 workers in the United States and Canada, despite the Biden administration&#8217;s strong support for electric vehicles and the allocation of billions of dollars in green subsidies that would benefit auto manufacturers like Ford.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The automotive giant has started notifying employees this week about the impending job cuts, as it seeks to offset the costs associated with developing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-push-for-electric-vehicles-democrats-pursue-the-paris-hilton-strategy-on-energy\/\" title=\"With Push For Electric Vehicles, Democrats Pursue The Paris Hilton Strategy On Energy\">manufacturing electric cars<\/a>, as reported by the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. The majority of the cuts will affect engineers, particularly those working in the green vehicles sector of the company.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to lay off workers comes as a surprise considering the White House&#8217;s focus on funding green initiatives and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-transport-bill-boosts-chinas-green-energy-sector\/\" title=\"Dem Transport Bill Boosts China\u2019s Green Energy Sector\">promoting electric vehicles<\/a>. Ford had expressed its intention to take advantage of President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2021 Inflation Reduction Act, which allocates nearly $400 billion to green spending. Both Biden and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm have actively promoted Ford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-recent-failures-of-green-energy-policies\/\" title=\"3 Recent Failures of Green Energy Policies\">electric car fleet<\/a>. In fact, Granholm even appointed Ford lobbyist Christopher Smith to serve on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, according to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Ford recently secured a $9.2 billion loan from the Biden administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ford-cuts-american-jobs-after-biden-admin-boosts-company-with-green-subsidies\/\" title=\"Ford cuts US jobs after Biden administration supports company with green subsidies.\">construct electric vehicle battery plants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It seems that other automakers are also making job cuts to balance their investments in green energy, as reported by the <em>Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\"><em>Many automakers are focused on areas where they can cut costs to offset their heavy investments in EV development. In recent months, General Motors and Jeep-maker Stellantis both began offering buyouts, with executives emphasizing the need to control costs as they pour more money into electric and digital technology. Stellantis\u2019s buyout offers also included unionized workers at its U.S. factories.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is set to lay off over 1,000 workers in the US and Canada, despite the Biden administration&#8217;s support for electric vehicles and green subsidies. Employees have been informed of the impending job cuts, despite the benefits these measures could bring to Ford and other auto manufacturers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1958488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}