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Trump Seizes Sovereignty in $14 B Nippon Steel Partnership to Preserve U.S. Steel
On May 23, 2025, former President Donald J. Trump announced via his Truth Social platform that the United States would retain operational control of U.S. Steel Corp. under a newly negotiated partnership with Japan’s Nippon Steel, following a $14 billion investment pledge from the Japanese firm. This “planned partnership,” as Trump characterized it, promises to create at least 70,000 jobs and inject $14 billion into the U.S. economy over the next 14 months, while preventing any loss of American stewardship over a once-iconic domestic industrial asset (Reuters, turn0news17). Yet, beneath the celebratory rhetoric lies a mesh of constitutional questions, statutory authorities, and geopolitical considerations. What legal mechanisms permit—or constrain—such executive interventions in a corporate transaction? How does this align with Congress’s delegated powers, judicial precedents, and established international norms governing foreign investment? More broadly, what tensions emerge between national sovereignty, free-market principles, and global economic integration?