Biden-⁠Harris Administration’s Progress Creating a Future Made in America

 The Biden-Harris Investing in America agenda is a Made in America agenda. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law put Americans to work rebuilding our nation with American-made materials, and included the Build America, Buy America Act to require that all iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials used in Federally funded infrastructure projects are produced in the America. The CHIPS and Science Act is making the United States once again a world leader in manufacturing semiconductors that power our lives. And the Inflation Reduction Act is powering a manufacturing revolution in clean energy industries of the future.

Under President Biden and Vice President Harris, businesses are building factories that will power our economy for years to come. The private sector has committed nearly $900 billion in investments in American manufacturing and our power sector, including sectors central to our industrial strength. Construction of factories has doubled — to a record high — after falling under the previous administration. And the United States has created nearly 800,000 manufacturing jobs, after the last administration lost manufacturing jobs.

These are the largest investments in American manufacturing in generations, and they build on historic actions by the Biden-Harris Administration that are making “Made in America” a reality.

The Biden-Harris Made in America Agenda

  • Closing Loopholes: In his 2024 State of the Union address, the President announced that the Biden-Harris Administration is taking a historic step to boost domestic manufacturing in transportation. The Department of Transportation published a proposal to discontinue a sweeping Reagan-era Buy America waiver for manufactured products in federal-aid highway projects. This proposal would close a giant loophole and further advance the President and Vice President’s commitment to support American manufacturers and good-paying jobs across the United States. This proposal will bolster our nation’s manufacturing and help create good-paying, American jobs that support the growth of domestic manufacturing.
  • CHIPS: The CHIPS and Science Act has spurred a reshoring of high-tech semiconductor manufacturing capacity back to the United States. Semiconductors are the lifeblood of the future economy and are vital to our economic and national security. Since the President and Vice President took office, dozens of companies have committed to invest nearly $400 billion in total semiconductor investments across this country. These investments have been enabled by the Department of Commerce CHIPS incentive program, which has reached preliminary terms with 13 semiconductor manufacturers across the supply chain to provide nearly $30 billion in direct funding and $25 billion in loans. The Department of Commerce has also launched the National Semiconductor Technology Center and announced billions in research and development funding opportunities; the National Science Foundation has catalyzed hundreds of millions in funding for workforce initiatives; and the Department of Defense has funded research hubs throughout the country to ensure America continues to lead industries of the future. America invented the semiconductor, and once again we are on track to revitalizing our domestic semiconductor industry through over a hundred thousand jobs all across the nation – helping ensure more chips are made in America by American workers.
  • Buy American: In 2022, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the most robust updates to the implementation of the Buy American Act in nearly 70 years to ensure taxpayer dollars create good-paying jobs here at home, and strengthen critical supply chains. This rule increased the domestic content requirements for Made in America for federal procurement from 55 percent of the value of their component parts that are manufactured here to a threshold of 60 percent in 2022, 65 percent in 2024, and 75 percent in 2029. This action also closed loopholes in the current regulation while allowing businesses time to onshore manufacturing and adjust their supply chains to increase the use of American-made components.
  • Broadband: The Biden-Harris Investing in America agenda includes historic funding for high-speed internet access, spurring hundreds of millions of dollars in investments in broadband manufacturing as numerous companies onshore and expand domestic manufacturing capacity.As a result of these policies, close to 90% of the funding spent on equipment for the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program will be spent on equipment manufactured in the United States. Implementation of the BEAD Program is creating thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs across the country — from Kenosha, Wisconsin to Hickory, North Carolina and Gilbert, Arizona. Workers in these communities are now producing broadband equipment, like fiber optic cable and key electronics, necessary to bring affordable, reliable high-speed internet to everyone in America.