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The bill provides a public study intended to identify opportunities and regulatory barriers to U.S. production—helping governments and businesses plan for reshoring and local manufacturing growth—while risking added costs to consumers and taxpayers and likely producing only gradual, not immediate, changes.
State and local governments, manufacturers, and small businesses gain an unclassified, actionable analysis identifying which critical infrastructure products could be produced domestically, enabling targeted industrial policy, procurement planning, and business investment decisions.
The public release of the report increases transparency so taxpayers, businesses, and lawmakers can plan investments and policy changes based on shared information and evidence.
Rural communities and construction workers could gain new manufacturing and development opportunities if feasibility analyses show products can be viably produced in rural areas or industrial parks.
Taxpayers could bear new federal costs if policymakers implement subsidies or incentives to reshore production without offsetting savings, increasing budgetary pressure.
Consumers and middle-class families could face higher prices if shifting production to higher-cost U.S. facilities leads manufacturers to pass increased labor or material costs on to buyers.
Small businesses and state governments may see limited near-term benefit because the bill only directs a study and does not compel information sharing or require implementation of recommendations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires Commerce to study feasibility of domestic manufacture of high-demand imported products for the 16 critical infrastructure sectors and report findings to Congress within 18 months.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to study which products needed for building, operating, maintaining, or restoring the 16 Presidential Policy Directive 21 critical infrastructure sectors are currently imported and could feasibly be manufactured in the United States. The study — due within one year and followed by an unclassified report (with optional classified annex) to Congress within 18 months of enactment — must identify products, assess costs and benefits of domestic production (including jobs and labor conditions), analyze feasibility in rural and industrial-park settings, and identify federal policies that raise costs or impede domestic manufacture. The provision does not authorize compelling private parties to provide information.
Official title: Direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study on the feasibility of manufacturing in the United States products for critical infrastructure sectors, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 22, 2025 by Joni Ernst · Last progress November 10, 2025