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May 17, 2024 · Presidents of both parties have embraced the “Buy America” political messaging. Biden can lay claim to implementing broader requirements on how federal money is spent, such as those in a major...
Feb 13, 2009 · President Barack Obama’s visit to a Caterpillar manufacturing plant provided the perfect backdrop to highlight Obama’s change of heart on controversial “Buy American” provisions that...
- Birth of America, Birth of Buy American
- The First Buy American Act
- 1970s – 1980s: Manufacturing in Decline
- Defense Purchases and The Berry Amendment
- Trump Executive Orders
- Criticism of Buy America Requirements
- Where Trump and Biden Meet
By the late 1760s, American colonists start a “non-consumption movement” against British goods in the attempt to force Britain to repeal its taxes. In Boston, merchants vote to block English trade, a move that culminates in the famous Boston Tea Party and the dumping of 45 tons of British tea into the harbor. The First Continental Congress of 1774 ...
Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst decorates his mastheads with American flags to launch a popular Buy American campaign to bring the United States out of the Great Depression. Hearst’s own views and politics were tinged with racism. His anti-immigrant sentiment and reporting was likely a contributing factor to the Japanese-American internme...
The Buy America Act of 1982, a provision of The Surface Transportation Assistance Act, is introduced in reaction to capital flight in the 1970s and the beginning of steady decline in manufacturing employment. The requirements are extended to purchases made by third party agencies, as well as those made directly by the federal government. The act ap...
The Berry Amendment to the Fifth Supplemental Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 1941 gives preference in defense procurement to a range of products including clothing, food, and fabrics grown, produced or manufactured in the United States. It imposes stricter domestic content requirements on such purchases than the Buy American Act and is...
In the 2000s, the Obama administration approves Buy American requirements in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. All public projects backed by the Act’s funding were required to use domestically-produced iron, steel and manufactured goods unless the cost of doing so increased the overall project cost by 25 percent. During his presidenc...
A 2018 studyby the Government Accounting Office (GAO) found that of the $196 billion in federal obligations in fiscal year 2017 to purchase end products, just $7.8 billion or 4 percent were foreign end products purchased using exceptions to Buy America requirements. 47.1 percent of that amount went to end products used outside the United States and...
Presidential candidate Joe Biden has put forward his own version of Buy American as part of his platform to “ensure the future is made in all of America by all of America’s workers.” Biden promisesto use taxpayer dollars to buy American and spark American innovation. In the debate over which candidate can out-“buy-American” the other, only one thin...
Aug 10, 2009 · Pres. Obama defended the "Buy American" clause in the stimulus package, saying it has not endangered trade between the U.S. and Canada
Nov 22, 2020 · A 2009 stimulus bill, being promoted here by former U.S. president Barack Obama, included a Buy American provision. The provision was watered down in the U.S. Senate, and later led to a new...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 111–5 (text)), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.
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Jul 28, 2021 · The proposed rule directs the following changes to strengthen Buy American requirements: “Make Buy American Real” and close loopholes by raising the domestic content threshold.
