Deluzio: Build America Plan would jump-start manufacturing at home

Rep. Chris Deluzio

August 20, 2026

In school, we all learned about America’s milestone accomplishments — we built the transcontinental railroad, we put a man on the moon and we electrified the nation.

We brought security and dignity to millions of hardworking Americans with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But over the last few decades, many politicians sold off the American Dream with policies that shuttered factories, sent jobs overseas and hollowed out communities like many of ours right here in Western PA.

But I think America can do big things again. So this summer, I launched my Build America Plan to help us reindustrialize the USA and win the future by jump-starting American manufacturing. The plan has three major parts:

1. Build it HERE: We’ve got to bring home good-paying jobs, modernize our electrical grid and start up a revolutionary Manufacturing Sovereign Wealth Fund to go toe-to-toe with our foreign competitors. Chaotic tariffs and small ball tax credits alone aren’t cutting it.
2. Build it STRONG: We’ve got to show young people that a four-year college degree isn’t the only path to a good life. My Pathway to Trades Act would beef up trades courses with the tools and mentors kids need to succeed.
3. Build it RIGHT: China has flooded our markets with cheap goods and dirtier manufacturing for too long. My Fighting Foreign Pollution Act would put a fee on this and reward the stuff we make here in the USA because we can do it better and cleaner than anyone else.

I want our kids to know an America who works hard, builds strong and dreams big. We can win the future if today we start making real investments in our workers and fighting fire with fire.

Throughout my two terms in Congress, I’ve taken on the corporate power that too often squeezes local businesses and puts the American Dream further out of reach for folks in places like Western Pennsylvania. You can count on me to continue this righteous fight for our farmers and butchers.

For more on my work in Congress, sign up for my e-newsletter at deluzio.house.gov, follow me on social media @RepDeluzio, or call my office at (412) 344-5583.

Very respectfully,

Chris Deluzio

Member of Congress