Harris Has a Manufacturing Record Trump Craves. She Should Use It.
The vice president is too focused on populist inflation proposals. She should brag more about the investment boom she helped foster with Biden.
Jobs and investment need more focus.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has some serious manufacturing credentials, and she shouldn’t be afraid to brag about them in her campaign against former President Donald Trump, who has long claimed to champion domestic industry without delivering anything near the current administration’s results.
Spending on manufacturing construction in the US has tripled under the Biden-Harris industrial policy, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Inflation Reduction Act (where Harris cast the tie-breaking Senate vote) and CHIPS Act. Most notably, the spending has been led by investments in computer and electronic manufacturing facilities, and the benefits have been shared across the country.