Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

21. Department of Commerce · Minor · Needs Congress

Seek congressional authorization to use FDI-promotion tools for reshoring

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671 21. Department of Commerce

“The new office should also seek congressional authorization to utilize its FDI-promotion tools to encourage reshoring by U.S. businesses.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Nothing found. No congressional authorization to use foreign-direct-investment promotion tools for reshoring has been sought or granted: no bill in the 119th Congress proposes it, and the office that was to seek it does not exist (#1843).

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Requires Congress; nothing has reached the first rung of the §3b ladder. Negative search: jq title pass over bills.ndjson for reshoring, foreign direct investment and investment promotion; grep of the enacted text of P.L. 119-21 and P.L. 119-74 for reshoring; and Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for reshoring restricted to the Commerce Department slug.

Executive action adjacent to the subject exists — EO 14255’s Investment Accelerator (2025-03-31) — but it works with existing authorities and asks Congress for nothing; §3b treats an executive workaround as an event on its own ask, not as progress on a Requires-Congress ask, and it is recorded at #1842.

Action
other
Object
congressional authorization for FDI-promotion tools
ID
1844