Make It In America

America’s manufacturing sector played a major role in propelling our economy to world leadership and helped to create the strongest middle class in history. Manufacturing means secure, well-paying, middle-class jobs. But our manufacturing decline—which hit particularly hard during the Bush Administration, when America lost nearly a third of its manufacturing jobs—is one of the reasons why middle-class families are finding it difficult to make it in America today. To confront this challenge, Democrats are working to enact the “Make It In America” agenda: a plan to rebuild American manufacturing and create well-paying jobs.

View the list of bills included in the "Make It In America" initiative.

Make It In America is a wide-ranging program that fosters innovation, invests in a well-prepared workforce, fights for a fair playing field for American companies to compete abroad, and creates an environment to encourage investment in manufacturing job-creation at home. Several Make It In America bills have already become law, cutting taxes and creating loans for small businesses, speeding up the patent process, lowering costs of raw materials, and ending tax loopholes that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas. Under Democratic leadership, the House also passed Make It In America legislation to support American clean energy firms, invest in job training partnerships, hold China accountable for the unfair currency manipulation that costs American jobs, and more. Democrats continue to seek ideas from business, labor, and individuals to add to the Make It In America agenda and intend to make it a key part of job-creating efforts over the next several years. When more products are made in America, more families can Make It In America, as well.