If we are going to 'save Christmas,' then we need to look at how the federal government can act right now to help alleviate the strain in the supply chain, writes Mick Mulvaney
People shop for holiday items at the Country Store on Main Street in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on December 13, 2020.Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden held a press conference to announce that the Port of Long Beach would be transitioning to an around-the-clock work schedule in order to help clear the backlog of container ships waiting off the California coast. It was a critical part of the administration's efforts to help alleviate the supply chain disruptions that are threatening the U.S.
Supply chains, as even ordinary Americans are learning, are extraordinarily complex and sometimes fragile systems. They are subject to disruption from any number of sources, from malicious actors shutting down a key gas pipeline, to simple accidents, such as a stranded container ship in the Suez or the shutdown of a silicon chip factory in Taiwan.
One of the problems, of course, is that the sort of things the government can and should be doing are dull. Combing through the Department of Transportation regulations, for example, in order to identify rules on long-distance trucking that might be temporarily waived or modified isn't stuff that excites many people, including political appointees in any administration.Running a government is hard, never mind the politics of getting signature pieces of legislation approved.
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