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On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on “Ensuring the Future is Made in all of America by All of America’s Workers” (the “Order”) to advance the stated policy set forth in Section 1 of: “us[ing] terms and conditions of Federal financial assistance awards and Federal procurements to maximize the use of goods, products, and materials produced in, and services offered in, the United States.”
The Order includes several key components to further the stated policy, including: (1) Establishing a Made in America Office headed by the Made in America Director; (2) Creating a General Services Administration (GSA) public website to increase visibility into the processing for waiver of the requirements and waiver decisions; (3) Enacting changes to the Buy American Act’s (i) “component test”, (ii) domestic content threshold, and (iii) price preference for domestic end products and materials
getting americans back to work is something they all can agree on. it s just a matter of how to create those jobs and how much workers should earn. you talk to almost every single without question, every governor, one of their top priorities is jobs. and their economy. so even as we look at tax reform or education, we re always looking at how does that translate into jobs of the future. create more jobs, stronger job, build a stronger economy, create better opportunity for our children, for other generation of children, even for those adults in the workforce. the white house is capitalizing on having so many state leaders in one place. president obama riding the momentum from the state of the union, he continues to push an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. he says real action and real results happen at the state level. raising american s wages isn t just a good deed, it s good business and good for our economy. it helps reduce turnover, it