Year: 2023

Inventions resulting from Federal funding should benefit American producers and workers when possible. Bidenomics is mobilizing historic levels of private sector investment in the United States, supporting American innovation and research and development (R&D), strengthening domestic manufacturing after decades of offshoring, and creating new, good-paying jobs, including union jobs and jobs that don’t require a college degree. Over the last several decades, American workers, researchers and companies have created and commercialized many of the world’s most important technologies. However, many innovative technologies have ended up being manufactured elsewhere, even when the research behind those inventions has been funded with taxpayer…

Following the very productive meetings that took place earlier this week in Mexico between President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and a U.S. Delegation led by White House Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, the United States is taking additional steps to expand access to safe, orderly, legal migration pathways. Today we are announcing our full support for an international multipurpose space that the Government of Mexico plans to establish in southern Mexico to offer new refugee and labor options for the most vulnerable people who are currently in Mexico. We also commit to accept refugee resettlement referrals from qualified individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua,…

Yesterday, the Biden-Harris Administration met with representatives from more than manufacturers, manufacturing experts, and manufacturers’ associations to discuss how small and medium-sized domestic manufacturers can participate in the Investing in America agenda. Director of the National Economic Council Lael Brainard, Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mayor Mitch Landrieu, and Chief Economist to the Investing in America Cabinet Heather Boushey, and other senior administration officials reviewed opportunities for domestic manufacturers to participate in clean energy, infrastructure, and semi-conductor supply chains.    During the event, Administration officials highlighted how the Administration’s work to invest in American infrastructure and clean energy is revitalizing America’s manufacturing…