President Biden will soon finalize his proposed Buy American rule, which will require goods purchased with taxpayer dollars to be made up of at least 75 percent U.S. content.
The revised Buy American rule, first announced by the president last July, is intended to boost American manufacturing and reduce dependence on foreign nations to supply the U.S. with parts and components for vehicles, electronics and more.
The current iteration of the Buy America rule only mandates products are made up of 55 percent U.S. content. The revised rule will raise that figure to 60 percent in October of this year, before climbing to 65 percent in January 2024 and then 75 percent in January 2029.
The current rule also does not enable the U.S. federal government to follow up with a contractor to prove their products contain the required amount of American content. This will change under the revised rule, Biden said last year.
“First, 55 percent (US-made content) is not high enough, and second, contractors don’t have to tell us the total domestic content of their products,” Biden said when he first announced the Buy American revision last July. “They just have to tell us that they hit the threshold. With nobody checking. They’ve got a new sheriff in town. We’re going to be checking.”
This rule is particularly important to American automakers like Ford and GM, as the federal government is a major purchaser of vehicles for fleet use. Going forward, the Detroit Big Three must ensure their vehicles contain the right amount of American content, or they risk being left out of federal fleet purchasing orders.
Biden has also laid out plans to replace the entire federal vehicle fleet with EVs, so automakers that want to capitalize on this upcoming major federal fleet purchase will need to ensure their vehicles are made up of mostly U.S. parts and components. The feds will purchase only electric passenger vehicles by 2027 and will cease the purchase of all internal combustion engine vehciles for fleet use by 2035, Biden has claimed.
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It’s pretty obvious what this is. No one in the Administration really cares how much American content is in a vehicle purchased by the Feds. It all boils down to two things:
1.) Satisfying Big Union donors who’s money helped put President Biden in office;
And more importantly:
2.) Playing to more centrist and even conservative voters who bought into the Trump “Buy American, Hire American” moniker.
They see a midterm shellacking incoming, and it’s time for Operation Desperation. Essentially adopting Trump policies to sway independents to vote for Democratic candidates this fall.
Very doubtful it will work. I think it’s actually a decent policy idea, but it’s not saving them from what’s undoubtedly coming: a beatdown in November.
Not taking sides, just calling it like it is.
And it ain’t gonna work.
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I respectfully disagree, at least to the scale or extent you’re insinuating.
Nobody wants to adopt any Trump policies either. Being associated with him in any way is career suicide.
You don’t have to like him but what you just claimed about being associated with him is career suicide is pure BS and I have an extremely hard time believing you actually believe that.
Let’s go Brandon!
Seems like a good idea, especially getting us off of China’s reliance on components and manufacturing over the long term.
Clinton was a regular on Epstein’s private jet – If you believe that this is going to happen from the likes of Biden and the rest of the establishment politicians, then I have some beautiful ocean front property in Arizona I would love to sell you. Cheap!!!
It probably is better to see how this actually gets implemented first, you’re right. If it can be screwed up, a politician will find a way to screw it up.
You should be careful using words like molesting kids that’s a big accusation now this is the internet but I’ve seen people get their face broke making false accusations before.
Mark – obviously this person is a troll or he has a terrible case of TDS and his therapy sessions that his mom is paying for isn’t working.
What’s TDS?
TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. The power that President Trump has over your mind. Even though you don’t personally know him, your mind is occupied by the thought of Trump. Basically he is living in your mind rent free. It’s really sad. That’s what happens to weak minded people.
Oh weird. Well I try to avoid politics in general so it shouldn’t be a problem.
You try to avoid politics, but yet your screen name is Trump molested his daughter Ivanka in 1993? Yet another symptom of TDS.
I’m just trying to talk about cars man no idea what you’re on about.
I’m just here to talk about cars friend.
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No idea what any of that means sorry.
Bill stubbe look up the benefits of a vpn your welcome.
Still no idea what you’re talking about.
I bet you get that a lot. No idea on most things.
Interesting because your IP address changed finally lol.
She is pretty hot…
How come he didn’t get censored by a moderator? Also, when is everyone in America going to quit getting butt hurt over politicians and realize they work for US, the people? Most people aren’t really Democrats or Republicans, they are in the middle but tend to lean towards one side. But the media tries to force us to one side in this two party system, causing extremists. I think there would be a whole lot less extremists, if the media wasn’t allowed to put their spin on things. Also, I don’t like Trump, but I voted for Trump, not because I like him, but because out of him and Hillary, he was the better candidate IMO. Same with Trump and Biden IMO. But, the media got to successfully perform their social experiment and actually swayed people from Trump by using their feelings and emotion over reason and rationality. People forget we’ve already had Biden for 8 years before Trump. And that’s why I didn’t vote for him. The last time gas was this high was 2009. I don’t vote for who I like, I vote for the candidate with the most entrepreneurship, because it affects our pockets. Democrats screw up America, and Republicans screw up the rest of the world. What’s the lesser of two evils if you’re American?
He will it’s only a matter of time. It usually takes less then a week then he won’t be able to use those names anymore. They will flag certain words and when he he hits reply it won’t go through.
Good idea, but I doubt it will happen, Let’s Go Brandon!
Sounds like a theme heard before? What was it again? Oh yeah, America first!
Welcome to $130,000 half ton pickup trucks
Nope. Every single government vehicle will become a modified USPS mail truck or a (real) Humvee.
I’d actually support this, GM still had plenty of room in the Kansas City plant.
Well making stuff here is forced by supply Chain issues,Covid, lockdowns and that inflation will make lazy people have to work. I have a bad feeling thing to get worse for whatever’s to come yet. Also the whole getting off oil is not something other countries want to do there is a with us or shun you aspect
Biden can say what he wants till November…….
LMAO. Their liberal policies and taxation plus regulation strangleholds will continue to case businesses away. Things will not improve.
Never started or owned a business
Cutting throw politic crap… if you think American is union, you are an idiot. There are so many non-union jobs that make up America and can run circles around the union. This is a white collar union agreement with the WH to convince the blue collar voters to vote blue. Nothing more.
Non-union companies under this WH admin are second class and will never receive any funding – period. This country was built on mom&pop small businesses that eventually became big corporations. Small businesses still out rank the number of available jobs and non-union.
Tesla is the biddest EV non-union company making vehicles and has been shut out by this admin. Yes, Elon has done deals, but when you have no backing and trying to run a business and keep people employed, you make deals.
I’m not saying union is bad, just saying union management has played this for decades when you have a liberal in the WH. Union equals votes.
Yet, thousands of union type jobs are in other countries. Where is the union fighting that…
Biden is giving China all the green production jobs and paying them. American union gets the left overs of installing these green products, leaving manufacturing jobs in China.
Now, the WH cuts oil jobs and would rather pay Putin a billion a day for oil. Get ready to pay Iran next month a billion a day.
So anyone aruging these FACTS are misinformed and to lazy to research the truth.
If this wishful mandate happens it will help resuscitate dead industrial cities in the Rustbelt, that have had slow painful deaths. Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, Cincinnati, Youngstown, Fort Wayne, etc. Big help to Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Japanese auto parts makers will have to expand their facilities.
The Dems don’t want to lose the big electoral vote in Ohio. Although with modern applied technology elections can be fixed like the last national election.
Mary needs to keep her prayers and church candles going for Biden’s re election. Otherwise GM will be toast.