“We will eliminate President Trump's tax and trade policies that encourage big corporations to ship jobs overseas and evade paying their fair share of taxes. If companies shut down their operations here and outsource jobs, we'll claw back any public investments or benefits they received from taxpayers.”
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Congressional Democrats introduced the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act and the End Outsourcing Act, which would have equalized tax rates on offshore profits and clawed back federal incentives from companies that outsource jobs, matching Biden's promise, but neither bill was enacted into law during his term (2021-2025); Biden's broader corporate tax agenda, including ending preferential GILTI/FDII treatment, was not passed by Congress. No executive action independently achieved a comparable clawback mechanism. The promise was pushed by allied lawmakers with administration backing but did not become law, meeting the standard for a genuine attempt that did not land.
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