Mills defends Trump’s use of Chinese steel as “a competitive business decision”

In an interview with Roll Call, multi-millionaire Stewart Mills III defended Donald Trump’s use of Chinese steel in his buildings:

Mills is quick to say that he didn’t caucus for Trump. But he’s voting for him next week and he defended the real estate mogul’s use of Chinese steel — a point Democrats here have seized on — as a competitive business decision.  

Earlier this month the United Steelworkers were “furious” with Donald Trump after investigative reporting revealed Trump used Chinese-made steel in his hotels, a practice that directly undermines Minnesota’s iron-ore industry, and one which Mills apparently supports.

Stewart Mills III, who already had a record of paying his construction workers less than minimum wage, last year sold out his employees to a Wall Street investment firm notorious for laying workers off and slashing pensions. Now Mills has confirmed 8th District workers’ worst fear: that he will happily stick it to Minnesota workers if it can pad the bottom lines of millionaires and billionaires like himself.

“Stewart Mills III just publicly confirmed what we already knew to be true: that he’s running for Congress to represent millionaires and billionaires like himself, even at the expense of Minnesota workers,” said Sacha Haworth of the DCCC. “From supporting risky Social Security privatization schemes to calling himself a ‘free trader’ behind closed doors, Stewart Mills III is not on the side of Minnesota’s middle class families.”