Vulnerable Steel-State Democrats Press Biden to Stop Nippon Deal

Two steel-state Democrats in tough reelection fights are urging President Joe Biden to do more to stop the proposed acquisition of United States Steel Corp. by Japan-based Nippon Steel Corp.

“We’re pushing the White House on national security grounds and on trade enforcement,” Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio told Bloomberg Television. “And fundamentally what this means for American workers and American jobs.”

Biden has publicly opposed the takeover and said the company should be American-owned.

The Biden administration is putting the deal through a secretive national security review process, one that is typically reserved for businesses ...