President Biden's Push to Make Things In America Again
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis and White House correspondent Asma Khalid.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast, I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:07.7 | And I must m'challet, I cover the way. |
| 0:09.8 | And today on the show, we're going to do something a little different. |
| 0:12.4 | We're going to take a deep dive into a key part of President Biden's economic agenda, |
| 0:16.9 | especially now that he's running for reelection. |
| 0:19.8 | And that's his push to invest in America, make things in America, and buy things made |
| 0:25.1 | in America. |
| 0:26.1 | It's something he talks about a lot. |
| 0:27.7 | And we rebuild America, and I mean literally rebuild America. |
| 0:31.7 | We're going to buy America. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm going to invest in ourselves again, invest in America again. |
| 0:36.9 | Where is it written? |
| 0:37.9 | That America can't once again be the manufacturing capital of the world. |
| 0:42.6 | Where is that written? |
| 0:43.6 | It's a strategy experts call industrial policy. |
| 0:46.4 | And that's when the government uses rules, regulations, subsidies, tariffs, and legislation, |
| 0:52.1 | pretty much anything in its power to shape the private sector and boost particular |
| 0:57.7 | industries. |
| 0:58.7 | Osma, this has been an issue of particular interest to you. |
| 1:03.2 | So where do we start? |
| 1:05.2 | So, I want to put this in a bit of context because why I was so curious about this economic |
| 1:11.4 | vision is because of the political parallels it seemed to have to his predecessor, to the |
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