Made in America Jobs Act – EDA Grant Criteria for Domestic Employment & Manufacturing
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-23 — To spark a renaissance in American manufacturing through the establishment of a American Manufacturing Renaissance Act to develop and monitor a national manufacturing strategy, to identify and address supply chain weaknesses as well as identify and address obstacles to inclusion and align manufacturing with strategic opportunities and imperatives through local multi-stakeholder Manufacturing Renaissance Councils, which are analogous to the technology hubs established in the Chips and Science Act, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with american-manufacturing-renaissance-act: Both align federal industrial-policy levers with domestic manufacturing employment; HR9931’s councils could plausibly interface with EDA-style grant criteria. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-15 — ONSHORE Manufacturing Act: cross-connection with onshore-manufacturing-act: Shared onshoring policy goal — Finance Committee referral suggests tax/tariff levers, while Made in America Jobs Act uses EDA grant criteria. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-03-25 — Made in America Jobs Act of 2026: Bill introduced (HR7342, 119th Congress) would amend EDA public-works grant criteria to prioritize projects that relocate jobs to the United States or expand domestic manufacturing capacity; no new program created, only reweighted selection criteria. (novelty: 2)