Senator Ruben Gallego ... secured support for efforts to strengthen EXIM’s Make More in America Initiative (MMIA).
Advance efforts to codify the Make More in America Initiative to boost domestic manufacturing and support increased investments in nuclear energy and small businesses.
Occurrences
Evidence
During a Senate Banking Committee hearing (Mar 26, 2026) Sen. Ruben Gallego questioned EXIM Chair John Jovanovic about the Make More in America Initiative (MMIA), pressed for strengthening the program for small businesses and nuclear projects, and secured support to advance efforts to codify/strengthen MMIA.
Senators Ruben Gallego and Jim Risch introduced the bipartisan Accelerating Reliable Capacity (ARC) Act on Feb 10, 2026 to reduce financial risk and accelerate investment in advanced commercial nuclear reactors via a risk-reduction program and limited federal cost-share.
Committee calendar/news lists recent hearings (including the March 26, 2026 Export-Import Bank reauthorization hearing where Sen. Gallego pressed EXIM) and shows committee business on April 20–21 focused on other nominations and items — no committee action between April 20–22, 2026 to formally codify or enact changes to EXIM's Make More in America Initiative.
The FY2025 performance report documents continued activity and an expanded pipeline under the Make More in America Initiative (MMIA) but does not indicate the program has been statutorily codified or that new legislation formalizing MMIA has been enacted as of the report date.
During a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing today, Senator Ruben Gallego questioned Export-Import Bank (EXIM) President and Chairman John Jovanovic on the bank’s investments in Arizona small businesses and nuclear energy and secured support for efforts to strengthen EXIM’s Make More in America Initiative (MMIA).
Full Committee Hearing. Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026. Topic: Export-Import Bank Reauthorization. Witness: The Honorable John Jovanovic, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank.
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (Introduced 02/10/2026). Cosponsors include Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ] (02/10/2026). Latest Action: Senate - 02/10/2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Tracker: This bill has the status Introduced.
To help companies make more in America - especially in sectors critical to national security - EXIM will make available the agency’s existing medium- and long-term loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to export-oriented domestic manufacturing projects.
Assessments
Gallego materially advanced the promise through Senate activity: he pressed EXIM at a March 26, 2026 Banking Committee hearing to strengthen and codify the Make More in America Initiative, highlighted small business and nuclear-energy investment, and co-sponsored nuclear-investment legislation. However, the evidence does not show MMIA was codified into law or that the related nuclear/small-business investment measures were enacted. This supports partial credit for concrete advancement, not full delivery.
Gallego took real steps toward the goal, including a Senate Banking Committee hearing on March 26, 2026 and introducing nuclear investment legislation, but the evidence does not show that the Make More in America Initiative was codified into law or that the promised policy outcome was achieved. This is a serious attempted delivery that fell short of fulfillment.
Sen. Gallego actively advanced the components of this promise but did not achieve statutory codification of EXIM’s Make More in America Initiative (MMIA) by the dates in the evidence. Supporting evidence: (1) He used a Senate Banking Committee hearing (Mar 26, 2026) to press EXIM leadership to prioritize and strengthen MMIA for small businesses and nuclear projects and framed this as advancing a push to codify the program. (2) He co-sponsored substantive legislation to boost nuclear investment (the bipartisan ARC Act, Feb 10, 2026), demonstrating concrete legislative effort on the nuclear-investment portion of the pledge. (3) EXIM’s FY2025 performance report shows MMIA activity and an expanded pipeline but does not indicate statutory codification. (4) Senate Banking Committee calendars through April 20–22, 2026 show no formal committee or floor action enacting MMIA into law. Taken together, these show meaningful effort and partial fulfillment (advance/attempts and policy actions) but no completed codification into statute as of the available evidence.
Sen. Gallego took concrete steps aligned with the promise: he used a Senate Banking Committee hearing (Mar 26, 2026) to press the Export-Import Bank to prioritize and codify the Make More in America Initiative and secured the EXIM chair's stated intent to advance that effort, and he co-sponsored the bipartisan ARC Act (Feb 10, 2026) to accelerate investment in advanced nuclear reactors. These actions demonstrate clear advancement of the initiative and support for nuclear investment and small businesses but do not show that MMIA was formally codified or that the full promised outcome was completed, so the outcome is partial and expected to occur later in the term if completed.