During the election campaign, Donald Trump kept calling Joe Biden “made in China”. Because the Democratic candidate had approved Beijing’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 and promoted free trade which led, according to the Republican, to American deindustrialization.
The candidate Biden understood this well when he sought, in a workers’ discourse, to win back the white working-class electorate of the so-called “rust belt” states (Rust Belt), those that Hillary Clinton missed in 2016. And here he is taking action, defending the American worker and the unions, in a policy that is largely in line with … Donald Trump.
Joe Biden signed a presidential decree on Monday January 25 to more effectively force the administration, which spends 600 billion dollars (494 billion euros) each year, to buy American. “I don’t accept the defeatist view that automation and globalization can prevent union jobs from growing here in America”, said the Democratic president, before adding: “We are going to use taxpayer dollars to rebuild America. We will buy American products and support American jobs. ”
Reindustrialize America
President accused Donald Trump of letting go of the case : “Under the previous administration, federal government contracts awarded directly to foreign companies increased by 30%. This will change under our watch ”, assured Mr. Biden, who cited the $ 3 billion granted by the Defense Ministry to foreign companies and ordered his services to track down exemptions that allow them to supply the US government.
The Democratic President estimated that the 50% US component content was not “Not high enough” to define that a product is American and he requested a revision of the method of calculation. Joe Biden wants to take advantage of his major ecological works plan ($ 2 trillion over four years) to reindustrialize America. “The federal government also has a huge fleet of vehicles, which we will replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America by American workers, creating a million jobs,” he clarified.
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