Gov. Josh Shapiro Claims He Will ‘Do Anything’ In His Power To Protect The State’s U.S. Steel Jobs

During Monday’s press conference, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) spoke about working to ensure U.S. steel jobs stay in Pennsylvania.

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00:00Okay. Yes. Chris.

00:03Because you're here in Pittsburgh, there's constant uncertainty about U.S. Steel.

00:07Hearing anything about developments involving U.S. Steel?

00:11With regard to U.S. Steel, look, my goal remains the same, which is to protect the jobs here in the Mon Valley

00:17and to make sure that the investment comes here and the jobs don't get ripped away to another state,

00:23as the CEO of U.S. Steel had been doing and had been on a path to do.

00:28While I'm not going to get into the specifics of my conversation with the President,

00:32I will tell you that we spent a good bit of time speaking about U.S. Steel.

00:36And I reiterated, or I said to him very clearly what I've now reiterated publicly many times,

00:42the need to protect the jobs in Western Pennsylvania, a goal that he shares as well.

00:48We agreed to stay in touch and continue to work on that.

00:50And I'm going to continue to speak to all of the different individuals involved at all the different companies

00:57and all of those who are interested in making investments in Western Pennsylvania.

01:01We have to protect these jobs.

01:03We've got to protect steel workers' way of lives here.

01:06And I'm going to continue to do everything in my power as Governor to do that.

01:09Okay?

01:10Thank you all very much.