{"id":88918,"date":"2017-06-09T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=88918"},"modified":"2017-06-09T07:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:32:32","slug":"brown-buy-america-for-all-fed-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/06\/09\/brown-buy-america-for-all-fed-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown: Buy America for all fed projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wrote to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney\u00a0urging the Trump Administration to apply Buy America to all federally-funded infrastructure projects\u00a0as they begin to implement President Trump\u2019s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order (EO).<\/p>\n

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Brown sent his letter to Trump as the president discusses the\u00a0Administration\u2019s infrastructure plan in Ohio\u00a0today. The\u00a0President\u2019s infrastructure budget<\/a>\u00a0makes no mention of Buy America provisions he promised on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

\u201cI share President Trump\u2019s goal of promoting economic and national security and supporting the American manufacturing and the U.S. defense industrial base,\u201d Brown wrote in his letter.\u00a0\u201cIf implemented in a manner consistent with my legislation, the Buy American, Hire American EO will put U.S. jobs and U.S. manufacturers first.<\/p>\n

\u201cI urge the Administration, through the EO, to seize this opportunity to ensure that all federally funded infrastructure projects use materials produced in the United States,\u201d\u00a0Brown added.<\/p>\n

In April, President Trump signed the Buy American, Hire American EO, which, in part, works to ensure that the entire steel making process must take place in America to be considered \u201cBuy American.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown\u00a0has introduced legislation\u00a0with U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) that would expand Buy America to all federally funded infrastructure and public works projects.<\/p>\n

In January, Brown\u00a0wrote to Trump\u00a0asking him to make Buy America rules a top priority when in office and outlining the Buy America legislation. Trump\u00a0responded with a handwritten note<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brown is also a co-sponsor of the\u00a0Made in America Water Infrastructure Act,\u00a0along with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin). President Donald Trump expressed support for the bill, which would ensure that American steel and iron are used in all projects funded by the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.<\/p>\n

Brown led the fight last Congress to\u00a0restore Buy America provisions\u00a0to the water infrastructure bill that would have permanently changed the law to require the use of American-made iron and steel products in infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n

While Buy America rules apply to some federal infrastructure programs, many taxpayer-funded projects still lack rules requiring the use of American-made products. Brown\u2019s proposed legislation would ensure Buy America rules apply to all federally-assisted projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wrote to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney\u00a0urging the Trump Administration to apply Buy America to all federally-funded infrastructure projects\u00a0as they begin to implement President Trump\u2019s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order (EO). Brown sent his letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 02:50:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}