Deluzio Launches Build America Plan to Reindustrialize America

July 27, 2026

New, Three-Part Plan Focused on Winning the Future Through American Manufacturing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Pennsylvania Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17) announced his new Build America Plan to reindustrialize America and grow solid manufacturing jobs. Congressman Deluzio’s plan rejects the era of half-measures and piecemeal tax credits. Instead, it lays out a real industrial strategy to rebuild American manufacturing, invest in skilled workers, and make foreign polluters pay instead of letting them undercut cleaner, American-made products. Congressman Deluzio also released a video highlighting his Build America Plan.

This industrial policy plan follows the Trump Administration’s announcement of additional tariffs on trade partners, including Canada, and analysis showing that the last six years of President Trump’s signature United States Canada Mexico Trade Agreement (USMCA) saw a net loss in United States manufacturing jobs and failed to rebalance our North American trade deficit. This economic approach is failing. Congressman Deluzio believes it is time for America to build big things again—and that means investing in a strong 21st century industrial policy that can herald in a new era of booming American manufacturing.

"Today I’m proud to announce my Build America Plan—a bold vision to reindustrialize our country,” said Congressman Deluzio. “For too long, we’ve seen factories close, job shipped overseas, and entire American communities hollowed out alongside rising costs. The United States used to be the manufacturing powerhouse of the world—and I think it can be again if we stop letting our economic foes undercut us, fighting fire with fire, and make real investments in our workers. I want the next generation to know and inherit an America that builds and creates amazing things.”

Congressman Deluzio's Build America Plan has three pillars and three bills. They are as follows.

Build it HERE

Build America Fund: (bill text)

This bill creates a Manufacturing Sovereign Wealth Fund.to make direct investments and take equity stake in American manufacturing companies to bolster domestic manufacturing
This would allow the nation to keep up with our global economic competitors that subsidize their domestic industry
Extends direct benefit to all Americans through the Build America Dividend: an annual dividend paid out from the revenue raised in the Fund’s investments

The Build America Fund is endorsed by the United Autoworkers (UAW), Teamsters, United Steelworkers (USW), New American Industrial Alliance (NAIA), International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART), and AFL-CIO.

“Rebuilding our nation’s manufacturing infrastructure requires sustained effort and creative approaches that focus on both onshoring and creating good, community-sustaining jobs. Rep. Deluzio’s “Build America Fund Act” offers new ideas that helps put us on a path toward that goal. The USW looks forward to working with Rep. Deluzio and his congressional colleagues to grow U.S. jobs and industrial capacity.” – United Steelworkers (USW) President Roxanne Brown

“After decades of plant closures and union busting, we need a federal reinvestment strategy that can actively shape markets and take on corporate greed. Congressman Deluzio’s Build America Fund Act is a major step forward in aligning our country’s trade and industrial policies to make that happen. This legislation will ensure the next era of American manufacturing lifts up the working class and supports communities devasted by deindustrialization, offshoring, and a race to the bottom in labor standards." – Rajiv Sicora, United Auto Workers (UAW) Legislative Director

"The Teamsters Union commends Congressman Deluzio for his legislation to bring good union manufacturing jobs back to this country. The United States is home to the most skilled manufacturers and tradespeople in the world—workers who deserve meaningful jobs, family-sustaining wages, and thriving local economies. This bill marks a bold investment in Teamsters and their communities, and we’re proud to support it." – Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien

"Building in America again requires an all-of-the-above policy approach. The Build America Fund, a sovereign wealth fund that would invest directly in American manufacturing and industrial capacity, would expand builders' access to needed capital. We thank Rep. Deluzio for his leadership and ongoing support of American manufacturing." – Julius Krein, CEO, New American Industrial Alliance

"This is a common-sense bill that invests in SMART members, American jobs and our country’s manufacturing industry — prioritizing our national interests while supporting the people who build and move our nation every day. We thank Rep. Deluzio for introducing this bill, and we urge every pro-worker member of Congress to support it.” – International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Union (SMART) Spokesperson

Build it STRONG (bill text)

Pathway to Trades Act

Brings the trades back into the classroom by tying federal dollars to career and technical education
Expands opportunities for America’s young people beyond four-year college programs

Build it RIGHT

Fighting Foreign Polluters Act

Puts a fee on foreign polluters flooding our markets with their high-emission products and dirtying our air and waters
Specifies which goods are subject to this fee
Includes an incentive structure for domestic manufacturing
Reinforces the ideal that when the U.S. builds, we do it better and cleaner than anywhere else

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