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Biden Pitches New Buy American Rules During Truck Factory Visit They got a new sheriff in town,” Biden said after touring Mack Truck s Lehigh Valley operations facility. Jul 28th, 2021 President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Lehigh Valley operations facility for Mack Trucks in Macungie, PA on Wednesday, July 28. AP Photo/Susan Walsh MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) President Joe Biden checked out the big rigs at a Pennsylvania truck factory on Wednesday and promised workers that his policies would reshape the U.S economy for the working class a message clearly aimed at a group of voters who have drifted to Republicans. ....
Mack Lehigh Valley Operations 1:59 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, I’m not going to say anything; I just came to drive a truck. (Laughter.) And I’m not sure which one I want to drive. That one? There’s one back in the corner you can’t see. It’s the biggest damn pick-up truck you ever saw in your life. (Laughter.) I tell you what. Please, everybody have a seat. Everybody have a seat. Carlo, thank you. And, Carlo, I’m sorry about your mom. I really am. So many so many people. Well over 630,000 Americans have lost their lives because of COVID. And the only thing I’m going to and the press keeps wanting me to talk about COVID, but I’m going to mention this one thing. ....
âYou may have heard that, in Washington âand I was just on the phoneâ it looks like we reached a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure âa fancy word for bridges, roads, transit systems, high-speed Internet, clean drinking water, cleaning up and capping the orphan wells, over thousands of them abandoned, and abandoned mines âand a modern, resilient electric grid to build,â Biden said. Bidenâs agenda and proposed rule changes are not without opposition, as critics worry the new rules will make it more difficult more companies to work with the government. âWe know that Americaâs dozens of domestic content requirements create burdens for businesses, decrease competition for government contracts, and increase costs for taxpayers, said Tori Smith, economist at the Heritage Foundation. Existing regulations limit the number of companies that can qualify to bid on government contracts. ....
US Economy: Joe Biden Unveils New Buy American Proposal 07/28/21 AT 6:49 PM Speaking at a Mack Trucks plant in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden on Wednesday highlighted an initiative to increase the share of U.S.-made parts of products to qualify as Made in America. Biden is seeking robust changes to the Buy American Act of 1933. The Buy American Act required the federal government to purchase goods determined to be 55% made in the United States. Biden seeks to immediately increase that threshold to 60%, then 65% by 2024, and eventually 75% by 2029. BUY AMERICA: President Biden announces significant proposed changes to the 1933 Buy American Act, including increasing the percent of a product purchased by the federal government that must be manufactured in America from 55% to 75% and heightened enforcement of the act pic.twitter.com/AV6RZHVDAS— Forbes (@Forbes) July 28, 2021 ....
On ‘Buy American’ visit, Biden spotlights Pa. manufacturing Julia Terruso and Jonathan Tamari The Philadelphia Inquirer MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP, Pa. President Joe Biden came here Wednesday to a sprawling Mack truck plant in the Lehigh Valley to unveil a plan to pump more federal dollars into American products, like the red, white and blue trucks lined up beside his podium. “Today we’re going to make the biggest enforcement changes in ‘Buy America’ in 70 years,” Biden told about 130 employees, supporters and elected officials gathered inside the one-million square-foot facility. Biden’s proposal is to boost American manufacturing by upping the threshold for what products qualify as American “enough” for the federal government to buy. ....