The White House appeared to make a mistake Friday in its latest executive order, which blocked Nippon Steel’s roughly $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel.
The order, issued Friday, repeats language from a May executive order on Chinese Real Estate, beginning with “regarding the acquisition of certain real property of Cheyenne leads by MineOne cloud computing investment I L.P.,” according to an archived version of the executive order. It is the exact language used in the title of the president’s May executive order.
Oops.
White House copy-and-pastes from a previous presidential order on a Chinese real estate transaction and uses it for the Nippon Steel announcement. And forgets to delete the title. pic.twitter.com/8ibeSYujxI— Ken Moriyasu (@kenmoriyasu) January 3, 2025
The decision to keep U.S. Steel domestically owned was referred to the president by a national…
