Lawmakers in both parties are up in arms about the $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japanese Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC), warning the deal could threaten national security, shift steelworking jobs to low-wage states and undermine U.S. industrial capacity. In a letter sent Tuesday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Republican senators said Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) should block the sale. “[CFIUS] can and should block the acquisition of U.S. Steel by NSC, a company whose allegiances clearly lie with a foreign state and whose record in the United States is deeply flawed,” Sens. J.D. Vance…
