[Graycliff]

(What I don’t understand is why the President or the house step up to the plate and deal with this.)

Might be because they use non-domestic products also. The Feds and all the states use non-domestic products on a daily basis. There’s a program called BUY AMERICA, which was meant to make all federal and state contractors use American made products only. Only there was 1 small glitch, it allows the contractor to use non-domestic products in their bid, if the price of the product comes in 25% less than the lowest domestic product. In theory it would keep the non-domestics out of the market. In reality the non-domestics had no problem coming in below the 25% mark.

[hedgetrimmer]

There’s a program called BUY AMERICA, which was meant to make all federal and state contractors use American made products only

This violates the phony "free trade" agreements we have signed under the auspices of the WTO.

The state of Massachusetts once tried to block purchases of products for use by the state that originated in communist/totalitarian state of Burma. They were actually sued by the Feds for undermining the president's authority to sign trade agreements (president clinton) and were compelled to open their purchases up to every country in the world.