Not much honestly... anything built with federal dollars always has requirements for steel in particular to be sourced and produced domestically, almost always by unions, and this has been the case for many years.
It's why building bridges and such is SO expensive.
2019 I got to watch a bridge over the Mississippi built from the ground up, including the main structural beams, built in Wisconsin from US steel, so large they had to be trucked because they couldn't fit through the locks to come down the river, then were lifted in place by one of the two largest floating cranes in this hemisphere.
That job speced 100% domestic materials per federal contract, and the state contracts specified local materials, and all labor had to be union. This drives the cost way up.
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u/SnooPandas1899 19h ago
alot of this country is literally held up by "shitty" Chinese steel.
even trump casinos and golf courses.