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The Politics of Steel Are Center Stage in Pennsylvania

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The Politics of Steel Are Center Stage in Pennsylvania
U.S. Steel's Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant in Clairton, Pa., is shown on Feb. 26, 2024. Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo
Salena Zito
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BUTLER, Pennsylvania—On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan’s Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of steelworkers at his Butler Works plant and let them know just what he thought of the pending vote.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.