If the United States cannot manufacture what it needs to sustain and defend its critical industries, its ability to maintain its security and independence is put at risk. Ensuring domestic nitrile glove supply is not a matter of industrial nostalgia or protectionism; it is a practical, targeted response to a vulnerability hiding in plain sight.
Read MoreAmerica’s bungled response to the Covid-19 pandemic’s medical manufacturing demands illustrates the limitations of both the American industrial base and state capacity. Despite policies aimed at reshoring medical supply manufacturing, multiple projects’ funding expired before new facilities could be finished, limited federal resources were spread too thin, and the halting pace of policymaking failed to entice investors. An honest accounting of these policies’ failures and shortcomings is necessary to inform any serious response…
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