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Witnesses tell Joint Economic Committee U.S. must rebuild manufacturing capacity with skilled workers and faster permitting
Summary
Experts told the Joint Economic Committee that restoring U.S. manufacturing requires dovetailing federal incentives such as the CHIPS and Science Act with workforce training, infrastructure upgrades and swifter regulatory reviews to avoid multi‑year delays.
Washington — Experts testifying before the Joint Economic Committee on manufacturing policy on Thursday told members that federal incentives and state and local partnerships are boosting plans to bring critical plants to the United States, but that workforce shortages and slow permitting could hobble those investments.
The core challenge, Dr. Sujay Shivakumar, director of Renewing American Innovation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the committee, is reconnecting research and production: “We need to move manufacturing and the infrastructure that supports manufacturing back into the center of our strategy.” He added that federal, state and local governments must coordinate on workforce, infrastructure and regulation.
Why it matters: several witnesses said the CHIPS…
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