DETROIT (WHTC-AM/FM) – Mike Pence wanted to talk economics before the Economic Club of Detroit.
In an appearance postponed a week due to the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, the Vice President promoted the Trump Administration’s replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement in speaking to around 300 of the Motor City’s financial leaders yesterday at the Motor City Casino and Hotel. “The United States Mexico Canada Agreement is completed, and support in Congress is growing by the day,” he said.
The former Congressman from Indiana touted the 87 hundred “opportunity zones” nationwide: “These Opporunity Zones can be transformational, and are in fact expected to spur a hundred billion dollars in long-term, private capital investment.”
And Mr. Pence wasn’t about to forget one of the Administration’s crowning achievements, a corporate tax cut that the White House believes has helped the entire economy, saying, “The United States of America had one of the highest corporate rates in the world, but now we’ve lowered the corporate tax rates for the companies right here in Michigan (to) compete with companies (worldwide) and create jobs.”
The Vice President, took no questions from attendees and made no remarks afterwards to reporters covering the event, which was only open to existing club members in an effort to avoid disruptions in a similar speech by then-Candidate Donald Trump three years ago.
