Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America's Workers

The order directs the OMB Director to create a Made in America Office, headed by a presidentially appointed Made in America Director, that must review and publicly post every proposed waiver from domestic-sourcing rules before any agency may grant it. Agencies must submit descriptions and justifications for proposed waivers to that office; the office has up to 15 business days to approve or return each waiver. The order also directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) to propose amendments that would replace the existing "component test" for domestic content with a value-added measure, raise domestic-content thresholds, and increase price preferences for domestic goods. The General Services Administration must build a public website posting all proposed and granted waivers.

The order requires each agency head to submit within 180 days a report on compliance with Made in America Laws, and then bi-annually thereafter. It does not itself amend the FAR or change existing domestic-content percentages; those changes depend on the rulemaking the FAR Council is directed to initiate. It also revokes Executive Orders 13788, section 5 of 13858, and 13975, and supersedes earlier orders on Buy American procedures to the extent inconsistent with this one.

Federal agencies that issue grants or procurement contracts and currently obtain waivers from domestic-sourcing requirements, the OMB-housed Made in America Office that will review those waivers, U.S. and foreign manufacturers competing for federal contracts, and small- and medium-sized American businesses that may be identified through supplier scouting as domestic alternatives.

Foreign suppliers that previously obtained routine agency waivers from domestic-sourcing rules will face new public scrutiny and possible rejection of those waivers. American manufacturers gain a publicly searchable database of waiver requests, making it easier to compete for federal business that might otherwise go overseas.

The Made in America Director is the linchpin: no agency waiver may proceed without passing through that office's review, except where the OMB Director waives review. Disputes between the Director and an agency head escalate through a process mirroring the OIRA regulatory-review conflict-resolution model under Executive Order 12866. The GSA public website creates accountability by exposing every proposed waiver. The FAR Council's proposed rules on domestic-content standards require notice-and-comment rulemaking before taking effect, so the procurement-threshold changes arrive later than the waiver-review machinery.