Mary Bala sues the Trump administration to court despite GM’s overseas manufacturing

General Motors CEO Mary Bala has been publicly comfortable with the Trump administration over the past few months, including driving massive investments in the US last week, but her tenure at the company includes several examples of shipping production and employment for companies overseas.

“I look forward to actually working with the President and the administration because I think we can increase the importance of the automotive industry and manufacturing, so I think there’s a lot of things we have in common.” Rose said About the next Trump administration in December 2024.

this month, GM announced That they are investing $4 billion in US plants over the next two years to boost the production of gas and electric vehicles in a welcoming move on social media.

The announcement comes two years after GM pledged $13 billion to US plants over the next five years as part of a settlement to end the UAW strike. Two sites mentioned in 2023, the Orion Assembly Plant and the Spring Hill Plant, were mentioned in the 2025 announcement.

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GM did not respond to inquiries from Fox business about how new the investments in the recent announcement are.

Despite investment and the willingness to work with the recent Trump administration on Rose, Fox News Digital Review has discovered several examples of GM closing US plants and becoming equipment to produce overseas.

Since 2018, GM has closed three US factories in Michigan, Ohio and Baltimore, converting it to its fourth electric vehicle. Detroit News reported.

“We were extremely disappointed with General Motors and its CEO, Maryborough, after closing plants in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland.” Posted on social media at that time. “Nothing is being shut down in Mexico and China. The US has saved General Motors. This is a thank you for what we’ve got!”

In 2024, GM was listed in a Mexican Business News Report As Mexico’s largest vehicle manufacturer.

Furthermore, in 2024 Bloomberg reported GM imports more cars into the US than any other car company, surpassing Japan’s Toyota Motor Corporation. The report states that almost half of all vehicles GM sold last year were made overseas.

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Since 2015, the following year when Barra took over, GM has been I lost 12 points Kogod Auto Index is an American university tracker that ranks automakers on how American cars are cars.

“GM is the latest company to play America’s First Cards, while shipping jobs and production overseas,” a senior GOP operator told Fox Business. “President Trump was the creator of the greatest work this country has ever seen.”

Rose has publicly supported President Trump’s tariff agenda, despite saying the company would hurt them financially. Wall Street Journal He said the decision was made that “we hope that the White House will maintain some kind of influence and avoid any worse policy harm.”

“This is a classic example of a large corporation’s influence by residing in political office owners,” Eji Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, told FOX Business. “Instead of making the vehicle that people actually want, at a price they can afford, along with American labour and American material, GM failed in all four counts because they were banking Democrats who forced consumers into EVs.”

Bloomberg reported Earlier this year, Barra was doing something “staked her legacy with EVS” and chose to “keep the course” in EV production, rather than following other carmakers who have returned more production to gas and hybrids.

in Letters to shareholders Last month, Barra said he “thanks President Trump for his support for the US automotive industry.”

Antoni told the FOX Business that GM “would “want to turn the corner from this misguided bet on EVS, he’ll need to do more than pay lip service on President Trump’s agenda.”

“GM stupidly went all in on the transition to electric vehicles, but the bet hasn’t been paid. Looking at the political donations, GM and its affiliates have given far more money to Democrats, including Kamala Harris, than Republicans.

“GM is not only the wrong side of politics, but the wrong side of consumer preferences, but at least in the numbers they produced, GM doesn’t want electric cars produced. The only way GM can push such cars to consumers is if the government forces it to them. Throat.”

It appears that the amount of GM UAW workers has also been reduced since Barra took the helm. 73,000 employees in 2007 just 45,000 in 2024.

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in CNBC Interview Earlier this year, Rose responded to allegations that she was “dancing questions” to bring more work to the US.

“Are you planning to take the plants back to the US?” Barra was asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“So we have a lot of plants,” Rose said. “Already there are more assembly plants in the country. There are more than 50 plants, not just the final gathering, but component plants and some distribution centres.”

“We are going to take advantage of that footprint we have because we have the ability to add capacity to many of these plants, so we can do this efficiently. We can do this faster than we would if we were to start from the green field. Production in this country is taking advantage of the strong manufacturing footprint we already have.”

Fox Business contacted General Motors for comment.