{"id":31622,"date":"2025-09-19T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31622\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:39:09","slug":"trumps-team-is-considering-a-550bn-fund-to-boost-factories-energy-and-critical-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31622\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s team is considering a $550bn fund to boost factories, energy and critical sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"483\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">President Trump\u2019s administration is considering a sweeping program to boost U.S. manufacturing, according to documents and people familiar with the talks says a Wall Street Journal report (gated). <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"483\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The plan would tap a $550 billion fund created during trade negotiations with Japan to invest in sectors such as semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals, energy, shipbuilding, and quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"874\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Some projects could receive preferential treatment, including fast-tracked regulatory reviews and access to federal land or water through special leases. The initiative would expand Trump\u2019s direct involvement in industry, following earlier moves such as securing a government stake in Intel, obtaining a \u201cgolden share\u201d in U.S. Steel, and winning a cut of certain chip sales to China.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"982\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">The proposals are still under discussion, and officials caution details could change before any rollout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s administration is considering a sweeping program to boost U.S. manufacturing, according to documents and people familiar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69,30353],"class_list":["post-31622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-trump-manufacturing-investment-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}