Post

Conversation

Brian Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
@Brian_Riedl
Wild that Biden's ARP gave the Teamsters an unprecedented, massive, $80 billion bailout to their bankrupt pension fund, and they responded by endorsing Trump. I disagreed with the bailout, but why should any politician ever help the Teamsters again? foxbusiness.com/media/teamster
Teamsters president offers blunt assessment of Dems' 2024 election loss: 'A lot of soul-searching...
From foxbusiness.com
167.2K
Views
Who can reply?
Accounts @Brian_Riedl mentioned can reply
Brian Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
@Brian_Riedl
While working for Sen. Portman, I worked on the Teamsters pension issue for 2 years. They were extremely aggressive, portraying their pension bankruptcy as literally life & death for them. And Biden's $80 billion exceeded anything thought realistic. Wild to endorse Trump.
18K
Brian Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
@Brian_Riedl
The chef's kiss is unions demanding that Biden give them pension bailouts, spending, tariffs, Buy America rules, tighter Davis-Bacon regs, etc - which are all inflationary - and then complaining that Democrats are out of touch on grocery and gas prices. That's some chutzpah.
Image
48K
Brian Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
@Brian_Riedl
As
@greg_ip
notes, Teamsters HQ was officially neutral - although their president spoke at the GOP convention and the local teamster branches generally endorsed, financed, and aided Trump over Harris. Functionally, it was a Trump endorsement that is remarkable after the bailout.
Image
8.4K