Ford’s announcement this week that it would cut more than 1,000 jobs at its planned electric vehicle battery plant in Glendale and shift to a new business model was a watershed moment for what Gov. Andy Beshear has called "the biggest economic development project this state has ever seen.”
But if you ask the governor, whose 2021 announcement was a linchpin of his reelection two years ago, the sky in Hardin County isn’t falling — and if it is, blame lies at the feet of President Donald Trump and U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie, the Republican who's represented the region in Congress since 2009.
“They took a hatchet to the EV industry, where we’d become a national leader,” Beshear told reporters hours after Ford’s announcement. “Any temporary job loss is directly on this president and that congressman, because there was a big, bright future in front of us.”
Guthrie quickly pushed back on Beshear's comments. In a statement to The Courier Journal, he said Beshear is "once again trying to deflect from the fact that the policies he and the Biden-Harris Administration championed have made life more expensive and limited choice for the American people."
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