President Biden Unveils ‘Invent it Here, Make it Here’ Initiative

President Biden, who is unapologetically “the most pro-labor President in history,” and who has made the issues of importance to working families the center of his economic agenda, signed an Executive Order last Friday in Maine referred to as ‘Invent it Here, Make it Here’, which directs federal government agencies leverage federal government resources towards policies and programs laser focused at increasing domestic manufacturing. 

IFPTE’s executive officers commented on the impending Executive Order, with Secretary-Treasurer, Gay Henson, calling it, “yet another in a long line of successful policies by the Biden Administration that has helped to create 800,000 jobs since President Biden assumed office”, and President, Matt Biggs stating that, “President Biden and his team don’t rest when it comes to bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States and this Executive Order is yet another example of such.” 

Read the Executive Order 14104, Federal Research and Development in Support of Domestic Manufacturing and United States Jobs. Read the Bangor Daily News article here.