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Enabling Bipartisan Cooperation as a Vehicle for Collective Progress

SpeakerS:

Morgan Ortagus, Founder, POLARIS National Security; Concordia Senior Advisor 
Adrienne Elrod, Director of External Affairs, Chips For America
Luis Gazitua, Procurement Attorney, Gazitua Letelier

Key takeaways & next steps:

  • The passing of the Chips and Science Act serves as a key example of the importance of bipartisan collaboration. 
  • Local Miami politics can serve as an example to the nation. The utilization of nonpartisan seats has led to a productive and logical relationship between both private capital and labor unions to achieve mutually-beneficial results.
  • Investment in educational infrastructure is a cross-sector imperative as it is key to attracting investment. Intel’s decision to set up shop in Ohio due to access to trained engineers graduating from Ohio State University provides an important example, and this logic applies across Latin America and the rest of the Western Hemisphere.
  • Elected officials in Latin America and around the Western Hemisphere should unite behind the aim to be business friendly in their policies.
  • The competitive economic landscape that has opened up between China and the U.S.—on, for example, reliable supply chains for semiconductors—cements the role of the private sector in filling gaps in funding. The lack of legislative process in nations such as China allows free rein on government spending; comparatively, the difference must be made up by the U.S. private sector.

“We might slug it out over issues of policy that we disagree on, but when we do agree that’s when we can come together and that’s when we can put our country first.”

 

Morgan Ortagus, Founder, POLARIS National Security; Concordia Senior Advisor

“The Chips and Science Act is a drop in the bucket compared to what China and even Japan are spending; so it is critically important that business be a part of the conversation and that they be an equal playing partner.”

 
Adrienne Elrod, Director of External Affairs, Chips For America

“The private sector needs to have the discipline to implement the Thanksgiving dinner rule: don’t discuss politics, religion, or culture; focus on the business objectives.”

 
Luis Gazitua, Procurement Attorney, Gazitua Letelier