--- title: '''The Buy American, Hire American President'': Made-in-the-USA procurement chart' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buy-american-procurement-chart-2020/ description: Page 5 of a White House report shows two bars, 'FY15+16' (red, $332.86 billion) and 'FY18+19' (navy, $418.82 billion), under a '26% Increase in Domestic… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!['The Buy American, Hire American President': Made-in-the-USA procurement chart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/buy-american-procurement-chart-2020.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/buy-american-procurement-chart-2020.jpg) # 'The Buy American, Hire American President': Made-in-the-USA procurement chart Page 5 of a White House report shows two bars, 'FY15+16' (red, $332.86 billion) and 'FY18+19' (navy, $418.82 billion), under a '26% Increase in Domestic Procurement' label. The vertical axis starts at $300 billion, which makes the right bar look several times the left; the text names the left window 'Obama-Biden' and the right 'Trump-Pence' and drops FY2017 as an overlap year. The comparison window was chosen by the author. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` President Trump’s executive order of August 6th, 2020, acts to bring this production back onshore. It requires government agencies like the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Department of Health and Human Services to Buy American when it comes to our essential medicines and the medical countermeasures we need to fight crises like the China Virus pandemic. 12 A May 1st, 2020, presidential order addresses a different set of offshoring risks. It prevents strategic opponents like Communist China from selling bulk power equipment to the U.S. 13 Such equipment might be compromised by Chinese malware or corrupted components– thereby putting our national electricity grid at risk. And Executive Order 13921, signed May 7th, 2020, will be a boon to America’s long-ignored commercial fishermen 14 by opening up new markets, removing unnecessary regulations, cracking down on the unfair trade practices of countries like China, and streamlining the aquaculture permitting process. Perhaps the best way to gauge the success of the Trump Buy American efforts is to compare the amount of domestically procured manufactured goods in fiscal years 2015 and 2016 under the Obama-Biden administration to fiscal years 2018 and 2019 under the Trump-Pence administration. Note here that Fiscal Year 2017 overlaps the two administrations so it is taken out of the comparison. [chart] MADE-IN-THE-USA GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT USD Billions $450 / $425 / $400 / $375 / $350 / $325 / $300 26% Increase In Domestic Procurement 332.86 418.82 FY15+16 FY18+19 With this comparison, we see that domestic procurement rose from $332 billion in the Obama-Biden years to $419 billion in the Trump-Pence years, a 26 percent increase. 15 Moreover, when looking at the dollar value of Buy American waivers, 16 during the same period of time, this decreased by 8 percent. 17 5 ``` [← OSTP 'Advancing America's Global Leadership in Science & Technology' (presidential quotation page)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ostp-science-technology-highlights-quote-page-2020/) ['Core Socialist Values' billboard, Puding County, Guizhou →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/core-socialist-values-billboard-2020/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (Kingdom of England · 1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [The Virginia Argus, "Letter to Mazzei" and rebuttal, 16 September 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/virginia-argus-letter-to-mazzei-1800/) (United States · Sep 16, 1800 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [The Examiner, No. 608, 22 August 1819, 'Disturbances at Manchester' (Peterloo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/examiner-disturbances-at-manchester-1819/) (United Kingdom · Aug 22, 1819 · Card stacking) - [Punch, 'Laurels at Ningpo' column on the First Opium War, 1842](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/punch-laurels-at-ningpo-1842/) (United Kingdom · 1842 · Card stacking). Content note: Period satirical prose describing the killing of Chinese soldiers at Ningpo in graphic terms, using period terms such as 'pig-tail' for Chinese people. - [La paz según el Perú – La paz según los chilenos (Peace According to Peru, Peace According to the Chileans)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-paz-segun-el-peru-el-banquillo-1880/) (Peru · Jun 12, 1880 · Card stacking) - [New York Journal and Advertiser, front page, 17 February 1898 ($50,000 reward, Maine 'work of an enemy')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ny-journal-maine-destroyed-enemy-1898/) (United States · Feb 17, 1898 · Card stacking)