Biden’s Hope for Michigan Repeat Rides on Strike He Can’t Avert

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, White House correspondent Jordan Fabian reports on the political stakes for President Joe Biden in the UAW contract talks with automakers. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

President Joe Biden is hoping the United Auto Workers and Detroit’s Big Three carmakers pull off a miracle and avoid a strike that puts the brakes on the US economy.