Joe Biden's 'Buy America' policy on infrastructure projects leads to factory jobs in Wisconsin
Efforts by the Biden administration have been helping create new factory jobs as part of a push to bring high-speed internet to the whole country
WASHINGTON — Efforts by the Biden administration have been helping create new factory jobs as part of a push to bring high-speed internet to the whole country — jobs that coincidentally help to back up President Joe Biden's messaging for the 2024 elections.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Thursday that up to 200 new manufacturing jobs would be coming to the swing state of Wisconsin. The workers at the Sanmina factory in Kenosha County are to make parts for Nokia that help to connect customers to broadband internet.
Nokia's choice to move production to the U.S. came after an extended engagement with the Commerce Department over how to deliver on the “Buy America" rules in the government's $42.5 billion investment to provide universal internet services.
“Whereas in the past, many of those jobs would have been created overseas, President Biden and I required that the materials and products used in these projects, from steel to electronics to fiber optic cable, must be made in America, by workers in America,” Harris said in her speech at the factory.
The remarks were part of a broader effort by the administration to get voters to link job gains to specific actions taken by Biden, one of the foundations of his reelection effort amid continued public gloom about the economy because of the burst of high inflation that began during his presidency.
Much of the effort to deliver on those promises has occurred out of the public view, but Nokia and government officials agreed to discuss how this particular project came together.
“It was a labor of some length and passion,” said
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