Manufacturers Outline Executive Action Policy Priorities for Incoming Administration

Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Manufacturers called on President-elect Joe Biden to help ensure the future strength of manufacturing in America by extending key executive orders into the new administration and rescinding those that have harmed manufacturing.

“For decades, we have worked with policymakers from across the ideological spectrum to craft policies that encourage the growth of manufacturing in the United States,” said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons in a letter to the incoming administration. “Now more than ever, America needs leaders in Washington who are focused on increasing American jobs, wages and investment.”

The letter outlines executive orders that have had a significant impact, positive or negative, on manufacturers over the past four years, and it urges the president-elect “to reverse the most harmful of these orders and keep or expand those that create an environment that is conducive to growing America’s manufacturing sector.”

The NAM’s recommendations will help manufacturers continue to respond to the devastating pandemic and will also power the United States’ economic recovery by setting the stage for manufacturing growth.

To read the full letter, click here.

Background:

The NAM has requested President-elect Biden repeal the following executive orders and consider executive orders for extension.

Executive Orders

Rescind:

“Rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program”
E.O. 13950 – “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”
E.O. 13672 – “Revocation of Federal Contracting”
E.O. 13769 – “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”
“President’s Report to Congress on the Proposed Refugee Admissions for FY 21”
Presidential Proclamation 10052 – “Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak”
E.O. 13944 – “Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States”
E.O. 13948 – “Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First”
E.O. 13957 – “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service”

Extend:

E.O. 13771 – “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs”
E.O. 13805 – “Establishing a Presidential Advisory Council on Infrastructure”
E.O. 13766 – “Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High-Priority Infrastructure Projects”
E.O. 13845 – “Continuing the President’s National Council for the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board”
E.O. 13932 – “Modernizing and Reforming the Assessment and Hiring of Federal Job Candidates”
E.O. 13777 – “Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda”
E.O. 13806 – “Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States”
E.O.s – “Strengthening the Federal Government’s Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts”

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The National Association of Manufacturers is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. Manufacturing employs more than 12.3 million men and women, contributes $2.32 trillion to the U.S. economy annually and has the largest economic multiplier of any major sector and accounts for 62% of private-sector research and development. The NAM is the powerful voice of the manufacturing community and the leading advocate for a policy agenda that helps manufacturers compete in the global economy and create jobs across the United States. For more information about the NAM or to follow us on Twitter and Facebook, please visit www.nam.org.