C8 · Pillar C · Growth Acceleration
Strategic manufacturing and supply-chain resilience
Continued federal support for semiconductors, batteries, critical minerals, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing, with sunset provisions and outcome metrics, friend-shoring with allies, strategic stockpiles, and supply-chain analytics.
- 10-year fiscal
- +$400B costInvestment
- Implementation
- Years 1–10
- Middle class
- Positive in investment regions
- Planetary
- Variable
$300B–$600B · Medium confidence
Neutral on average; regional manufacturing employment is the main household channel.
Effects depend on the sector mix (batteries and minerals vs. others).
Global precedent
EU Important Projects of Common European Interest; Japan’s METI coordination; South Korea’s strategic-sector policy (mixed documented effects).
Lead mechanism
Commerce; Defense; Energy.
Bipartisan framing
Broadly bipartisan in principle; controversy attaches to specific sector and project selection.
Figures in this framework are illustrative directional estimates derived from publicly available data and conventional Congressional Budget Office budget-window logic. They are not official CBO scores. Any provision adopted from this framework would require formal CBO scoring before legislative consideration. This document is a policy white paper, not an introduced bill.