Scot Bertram | General Motors Sales up 17% Compared to Previous Year

Here are 3 big things you need to know—

 

One — President Donald Trump will hold a meeting today with aides about possible investors who could buy a stake in TikTok. A deal like that could potentially stop the social media site from being banned in the United States. Among the possible investors are the software company Oracle and the investment firm Blackstone.

 

Two ----   Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest Senate speech ever, at more than 25 hours.  The New Jersey Democrat started his filibuster in protest of the Trump Administration.  And by this afternoon, no one will remember a single word of it.

 

And number three —   General Motors is reporting a 17-percent sales increase in the first quarter compared to last year.  The company sold nearly double the amount of electric vehicles, making GM the second-largest seller of EVs in the U.S.  Meanwhile,  Ford Motor Company is reporting U.S. new vehicle sales dropped by over one percent in the first quarter, compared to a year ago.  The company says the drop is due to rental fleet sales and the discontinuation of their transit connect van and Ford Edge SUV.