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President Biden’s Historic ‘Buy American’ Expansion Answers Decades-Long Calls from U.S. Workers
March 4, 2022
Machinists Union | By Robert Martinez Jr.
https://www.goiam.org/news/machinists-union-president-bidens-historic-buy-american-expansion-answers-decades-long-calls-from-u-s-workers/
“Today’s announcement makes real what we have been saying all along—that ‘Made in America’ should mean ‘Made in America.’ In fact, the Machinists Union, along with U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, championed an amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act that would have made a similar ‘Buy American’ threshold increase for defense products. That bipartisan amendment passed the House before being defeated by corporate-backed politicians in the Senate.