Harris opposes US Steel’s sale to a Japanese firm during joint Pittsburgh event with Biden [Video]

Vice President Kamala Harris used a joint campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania on Monday to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — concurring with the White House’s monthslong opposition to the company’s planned sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel.Her comments came during a rally before cheering union members marking Labor Day in the industrial city of Pittsburgh, where Harris said U.S. Steel was “an historic American company and it is vital for our country to maintain strong American steel companies.””U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated, and I will always have the backs of America’s steelworkers,” she said.That echoes Biden, who repeated Monday what he’s said since March — that he opposes U.S. Steel’s would-be sale to Nippon, believing it would hurt the country’s steelworkers. It’s little surprise that Harris would overlap with Biden on the issue, but nonetheless constitutes a …