In The News: The White House is creating a new cabinet-level council focused on supply chain issues.
The Council on Supply Chain Resilience will convene nearly every member of the president’s cabinet, bringing together more than a dozen of the nation’s top federal officials involved in industrial policy. The National Security Advisor and National Economic Advisor will co-chair the council.
Ever since the pandemic wreaked havoc on supply chains, the Biden administration has engaged a multi-front approach to shore up industrial resilience, roping in several branches of government. Congress, for example, has passed several laws with supply chain provisions to bolster industries deemed critical to national security, such as semiconductors.
- Meanwhile, at the executive level, the White House has sought to create liaisons, meetings, and even offices dedicated to coordinating supply chain policy across multiple agencies.
One such initiative was the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, created in 2021 to resolve supply and demand mismatches and led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture. The new council announced today that it will expand those efforts to include industrial policy chiefs like the Secretaries of Commerce, Energy, Defense, and others like the U.S. Trade Representative.
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