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US President Joe Biden has said that Made in America is the top priority of his administration and announced that bridges, roads and highways in the country will be made with American construction materials.
In a report by PTI, Biden in his second State of the Union Address on Tuesday said to maintain the strongest economy in the world, the US also needs the best infrastructure in the world.
“The US used to be number 1 in the world in infrastructure, but then it fell to number 13th,” he said. “Now we’re coming back because we came together to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System,” he said.
He said ‘Buy American’ has been the law of the land since 1933. “But for too long, past administrations have found ways to get around it. Not anymore,” Biden said in his joint address to the US Congress.
“Tonight, I’m also announcing new standards to require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America. American-made lumber, glass, drywall, fiber optic cables,” he said.
He said under his watch, American roads, bridges and highways will be made with American products. Biden asserted that his economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten.
“Amid the economic upheaval of the past four decades, too many people have been left behind or treated like they’re invisible, he noted. Maybe that’s you, watching at home. You remember the jobs that went away. And you wonder whether a path even exists anymore for you and your children to get ahead without moving away. I get it,” he said.
