we really need to be investing more in making sure that we're building more products here in the United States
Invest more in domestic manufacturing so more goods are produced in the United States.
Occurrences
Evidence
Becca’s campaign issues page lists “Investing in Rural Communities” as one of its core issue areas, but it does not specifically promise a domestic manufacturing program or a concrete manufacturing funding plan.
The Vermont congressional delegation announced $9.9 million will be invested in the Burlington School District for a new aviation and aerospace manufacturing workforce training center, saying the investment will strengthen the local economy and support Vermont’s manufacturing industry.
Balint and Welch announced $250,000 in federal funding from NIST, and stated that NUARI will use the funds to bolster domestic manufacturing by developing an advanced cybersecurity system to better detect vulnerabilities and potential threats. The release says they identified and secured the funding through the Congressionally Directed Spending process.
The bill text states that it is a bill “to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the advanced manufacturing investment credit,” and the introduced version lists Rep. Balint as one of the cosponsors.
Assessments
Balint took concrete same-term actions that align with investing more in domestic manufacturing, including cosponsoring legislation to increase the advanced manufacturing investment credit and helping secure federal funding tied to manufacturing resilience and workforce capacity in Vermont. However, the evidence shows targeted investments and legislative support rather than a broad delivered federal domestic-manufacturing investment program or fully achieved national outcome, so this is best classified as partial delivery.