1. A national industrial strategy
A 20-year plan for critical industries, domestic capacity targets, workforce pipelines, supplier ecosystems, and procurement commitments.
What we're for
Proposals
This project is not just complaining about what went wrong. It is trying to put a real set of proposals on the table.
2. Secretary of Industrial Strategy
A cabinet-level office to coordinate industrial policy across commerce, defense, energy, labor, transportation, and education.
3. Military self-sufficiency amendment
A constitutional principle that the United States must maintain the industrial capacity needed to defend itself without relying on adversaries.
How it works in a so-called free market
Markets are useful. They are not sacred. Strategic industries should be treated more like infrastructure than ordinary lines on a spreadsheet.
- Public support tied to domestic production
- Milestones and audits
- Clawbacks for firms that take money and offshore anyway
- Domestic content requirements
- Long-term procurement commitments
How to prevent profiteering and fraud
No subsidy without obligation. No obligation without audit. No audit without penalties.
Public money, public terms, public scorecard.
Every supported project should publish what it got, what it promised, what it built, and whether it delivered.