President Joe Biden demanded Congress pass legislation to make the U.S. more competitive with China during a speech in Ohio that wasn’t attended by the Democratic nominee for the state’s pivotal open Senate seat.
“Pass the damn bill and send it to me,” Biden said Friday after touring a manufacturing facility in suburban Cincinnati. “If we do, it’s going to help bring down prices, bring home jobs, and power America’s manufacturing comeback.”
The bill Biden wants lawmakers to pass, called the Bipartisan Innovation Act, is aimed at boosting U.S. manufacturing and supply chains — particularly of semiconductors — to reduce the country’s dependence on imports from China and other nations.
