So many of the challenges the U.S. now faces, from supply chain security to energy and housing affordability, require the same solution: we must start building again. And doing so demands making it far easier to build. We need policy that unlocks American ingenuity, that enables problem solving and puts people to work instead of placing self-imposed barriers in the way.
From minerals and energy projects to roads, bridges and even housing, essential investments are stuck in a permitting system that is remarkably ill-suited for today’s economic and geopolitical realities. If we want a stronger economy, more secure supply chains and lower costs for American families, permitting reform isn’t optional. It’s an imperative.
The consequences of delay are everywhere. Projects that should take years take decades or simply die on the vine. Crumbling infrastructure and an industrial base in desperate need of modernization are monuments to a permitting system that has frozen investment and driven industry and millions of community-supporting jobs overseas. Instead of providing predictability, our permitting system has created crippling uncertainty. There is no industry, no segment of our economy that isn’t affected.
We’ve reached a tipping point where the necessity for change has brought together a bipartisan push for permitting reform in Congress. The House has acted, passing a series of deeply important bills that together could be an economic and industrial gamechanger. It’s now up to the Senate to put this essential reform on the president’s desk.
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