Michigan Gov Whitmer finds common ground with Trump, pushes strategic tariffs in DC speech

For the second time in a month, Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was scheduled to meet with second-term Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday as the state continues to confront tariff and manufacturing issues.

Before that meeting, Whitmer delivered a speech near the White House to lay out her long-term ideas to grow American manufacturing and build national defense.

Earlier this year, Whitmer was a vocal critic of Trump’s tariff plans but has been relatively silent since broad taxes on goods entering the country were enacted last week.

In her speech, she pushed for targeted tariffs rather than the broad measures Trump introduced last week, which sent world financial markets diving.