1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.”

Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵 2/ Silicon Valley made its name in hardware. HP, Intel, Lockheed, and other pioneers didn’t split their R&D and factory floors. Engineers and tradesmen worked side by side. In 1965, Lockheed alone employed 28,000 people in Sunnyvale. 28,000 people!

1/ America cannot compete with China without building America's Shenzen – a place to build drones, ships, robots, and everything else cutting edge.

Where? On @CAForever's 100 square miles in Solano, 60 miles north of SF/Silicon Valley, where we invent that stuff. Here's why. 🧵 2/ Because it's obviously the right spot.

If we didn't gut the country with free-trade policies, and if California didn't commit manufacturing suicide with bad regulations, Silicon Valley would have obviously built its manufacturing engine immediately next to it.

1/ @CAForever is answering the call to propel American shipbuilding for the next century. With today’s @POTUS Executive Order and the bipartisan SHIPS Act, we’re offering 3 miles of our waterfront to build the Solano Shipyard, the largest shipbuilding complex in America. 🧵
2/ Last year, one Chinese shipyard built more ships than every American shipyard – combined – since WW2. You read that correctly – one shipyard! We’re desperately behind. Catching up is only possible if we combine modern manufacturing with production that matches China's scale.