Deluzio launches \u2018Build America Plan<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pittsburgh, this week announced his new \u201cBuild America Plan\u201d to re-industrialize America and grow solid manufacturing jobs. Congressman Deluzio\u2019s plan rejects the era of half-measures and piecemeal tax credits.<\/p>\n
Instead, it lays out a real industrial strategy to rebuild American manufacturing, invest in skilled workers, and make foreign polluters pay instead of letting them undercut cleaner, American-made products.<\/p>\n
Deluzio said this industrial policy plan follows the Trump Administration\u2019s announcement of additional tariffs on trade partners, including Canada, and analysis showing that the last six years of President Trump\u2019s signature United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) saw a net loss in United States manufacturing jobs and failed to rebalance our North American trade deficit.<\/p>\n
Deluzio believes it is time for America to build big things again \u2014 and that means investing in a strong 21st-century industrial policy that can herald in a new era of booming American manufacturing.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor too long, we\u2019ve seen factories close, jobs shipped overseas, and entire American communities hollowed out alongside rising costs,\u201d Deluzio said. \u201cThe United States used to be the manufacturing powerhouse of the world \u2014 and I think it can be again if we stop letting our economic foes undercut us, fighting fire with fire, and make real investments in our workers. I want the next generation to know and inherit an America that builds and creates amazing things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Build America Plan three bills.<\/p>\n
\u2022Build America Fund creates a Manufacturing Sovereign Wealth Fund to make direct investments and take equity stakes in American manufacturing companies to bolster domestic manufacturing. This would allow the nation to keep up with our global economic competitors that subsidize their domestic industry.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pathway to Trades Act brings the trades back into the classroom by tying federal dollars to career and technical education. Expands opportunities for America\u2019s young people beyond four-year college programs<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Fighting Foreign Polluters Act puts a fee on foreign polluters flooding our markets with their high-emission products and dirtying our air and waters. Specifies which goods are subject to this fee. Includes an incentive structure for domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n
Bill to improve broadband mapping process<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-SD), and U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) this week introduced the Broadband Mapping Accurate Providers (MAP) Act of 2026 \u2014 bipartisan legislation that directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to evaluate and improve its broadband mapping process.<\/p>\n
The senators said the FCC has made significant strides in enhancing the accuracy of its National Broadband Map, but providers have reported difficulties with the FCC\u2019s challenge process, which allows providers to dispute the serviceability of certain locations. They said the Broadband MAP Act of 2026 would instruct the FCC to review and assess its mapping and challenge procedures.<\/p>\n
\u201cBroadband internet is a necessity, especially for our rural communities. The first step we can take to ensure families have internet access across Pennsylvania and the country is figuring out who still doesn\u2019t,\u201d Fetterman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBroadband providers who are on the ground in South Dakota and across rural America have vital, firsthand knowledge of the communities they serve,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need a better understanding of where internet connectivity falls short, especially in rural America,\u201d Fischer said.<\/p>\n
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