Buy American. Every administration brings out a version of it. Enter the Biden administration’s Buy American executive order. It says all of the expected things, including support for:
Well-paid, union jobs Clean energy future Closing “loopholes” to offshore production and jobs More U.S.-made components inside
All worthy goals, perhaps. But one thing they won’t do is make goods less expensive.
The order also creates “central review of agency waivers” of Buy American, with the General Services Administration posting them on a website.
This might be something of a feel-good executive order that won’t necessarily change a lot materially. It comes, oddly, less than a week after new Buy American
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