US Manufacturing Has Soared Under Biden & Harris, Was Stagnant Under Trump

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Hurricane Helene hit, the US vice presidential debate occurred, I discovered my mother’s space of North Carolina was struggling dramatically from the results of Helene (they nonetheless don’t have water) and I helped her get out of there, then Hurricane Milton terrorized us down right here in Florida. I watched that debate, and it drove me nuts due to the fixed mendacity and misinformation, however I didn’t get the possibility to return to it … till now.

Once more, there was loads of misinformation, and there was the notorious “you said you weren’t going to fact check us” line, however because it pertains to CleanTechnicaI discovered the claims about US manufacturing from JD Vance to be stunning and blatantly false. Fortunately, I turned to Twitter (aka X) and noticed a terrific thread doing a lot of the work for me. Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist & well being economist, laid out the info and included some charts.

Reality examine—US manufacturing below Trump versus Biden.

JD Vance is unsuitable (ie mendacity) pic.twitter.com/llraQwJB7j

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 2, 2024

Vance claimed that Kamala Harris’s insurance policies as vice chairman had pushed “more manufacturing overseas” and stated that “if we actually care about getting cleaner air and cleaner water, the best thing to do is to double down and invest in American workers and the American people. And unfortunately, Kamala Harris has done exactly the opposite.” Bonkers. These claims are completely bonkers.

As you may see within the chart above, manufacturing spending within the US stagnated below Donald Trump, and even declined previous to the COVID pandemic. Biden and Harris took workplace, and with Democrats controlling the Home of Representatives and the Senate for a brief time period, they handed the huge Inflation Discount Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation. (Republicans now management the Home and Democrats, thus, can’t do something.) The Inflation Discount Act is the best stimulus for manufacturing since Roosevelt and the best laws for re-shoring US manufacturing jobs within the historical past of the nation. So, though we’re originally levels of it, the IRA has stimulated an enormous quantity of producing spending — hovering far above what occurred below Trump and even making the inexperienced stimulus applications initiated below Obama look minor.

There is no such thing as a larger or higher US manufacturing presidency, and but Vance in some way thought that may be an attacking level. Maybe it’s the continuous circulation of misinformation circulating across the Trump–Vance camp in charge, or maybe it’s pure gaslighting.

Anyway, Eric Feigl-Ding got here to play. He had a number of extra charts and graphs to share. Let’s undergo them.

2) JD Vance lied on photo voltaic panels from China too. https://t.co/DMB39uuoqG

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 2, 2024

JD Vance additionally shared a lie about the place the US was getting its photo voltaic panels, and Eric Feigl-Ding corrected the file.

3) Manufacturing jobs larger below Biden than Trump. Interval. https://t.co/QCrBMGvs1r

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 2, 2024

He additionally returned to claims relating to manufacturing jobs created below Trump and Biden.

4) Additionally relating to ACA claims… https://t.co/BlVxeaqydl

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 2, 2024

There was additionally a response relating to pretend Reasonably priced Care Act (aka Obamacare) statements that Eric felt compelled to answer. However that’s not our subject space.

5) Reality—US manufacturing development spending in 2021-2023 is just not solely the very best in 40 years… however it’s truly DOUBLE and TRIPLE!!! pic.twitter.com/0BH19TpMjf

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 2, 2024

Right here’s one other chart displaying the hovering funding in US manufacturing below Biden.

I discover it disappointing that extra individuals don’t understand how a lot Biden and Harris have been bringing good jobs again to the US.

6) If JD Vance is mad at being reality checked, then possibly he shouldn’t inform so many apparent lies. https://t.co/2wli4bgTrT

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 2, 2024

9) economists assume one other $10T is quite a bit. https://t.co/r6t5yPjcBL

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 3, 2024

To shut, there’s that final tweet above. As he’s completed up to now, if elected, Trump will explode the nationwide debt.

In brief, Biden–Harris have been higher for manufacturing funding and jobs, higher for the financial system, and higher for nationwide debt than Tump. And far of that’s due to what they’ve been been centered on — getting extra clear vitality, getting batteries to retailer it, and so on.