Policy, Power, and the Future of Automotive Manufacturing with Congresswoman Haley Stevens

About this episode

Jan Griffiths discusses the intersection of policy and automotive manufacturing with Congresswoman Haley Stevens.

If you had told Jan a year ago she would bring a member of Congress onto this show, she would have said you were crazy. But this isn’t about politics. It’s about survival. It’s about supply chains, tariffs, China, semiconductors, and the reality that policy decisions now move faster than most production lines. In this episode of the Automotive Leaders Podcast, Jan Griffiths sits down with Congresswoman Haley Stevens, often called the “manufacturing geek,” for a direct conversation about industrial policy, public-private partnership, national security, and what automotive leaders should expect from Washington. Whether we like it or not, policy volatility is now a leadership variable. Themes Discussed in this Episode Why Manufacturing Mondays keep policymakers grounded in shop-floor reality Lessons from the 2008–2009 auto rescue and bipartisan public-private partnership The Chips and Science Act and reshoring semiconductor production China’s 95% dominance in rare earth processing and why it matters Critical minerals, battery recycling, and national competitiveness Tariff volatility and the cost of policy uncertainty USMCA review, Canada relationships, and North American stability…

People in this episode

Host: Jan Griffiths

Guest: Haley Stevens

Topics covered

• automotive manufacturing
• industrial policy
• supply chains
• public-private partnership
• national security
• tariff volatility
• semiconductors

Keywords

• automotive
• manufacturing
• policy
• supply chain
• semiconductors
• tariffs
• China
• national security
• public-private partnership

Sponsors

Lockton

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: USMCA, China, Chips and Science Act, North America, Congress

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