[colinmhayes]

Or that Americans aren't willing to work for the prevailing global wage that manufacturing workers demand. Why would any company keep manufacturing here when labor is so expensive? Effective manufacturing robots would allow manufacturing to move back to the us.

[Workaccount2]

The government buys a shitload of stuff and everything has to be sourced* and made in America*.

*There are exceptions, but they are rare.

[NtochkaNzvanova]

How could this possibly work for, e.g., electronics? How does the government buy computers that are made in America? Unless there is some loophole whereby all the parts are acquired from wherever they are acquired, and the manufacturer just assembles the box in the US and gets to label it "Made in USA"?