The USA was building an even larger supercollider than the CERN collider back in the early 1990's. One of the first things Bill Clinton did when he became president was to end the project, and even went so far as to destroy parts that were already built. https://interestingengineering.com/usas-super-collider-lies-abandoned-texas-desert
Believe it or not, the USA almost won the race to create a fully functioning super collider, and it would have been 3 times as big as the current CERN super collider in Europe. Construction began in 1991 on what would have been the world's largest particle accelerator near the town of Waxahachie, Texas. The estimated circumference of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was going to be 87.1 km. To put this into perspective, the CERN super collider is only 27 kilometers in circumference. Construction on the project had already reached a very advanced state, but the United States Congress ultimately defunded the project, leaving the superconductor abandoned in the Texas desert...
So instead of the USA taking the lead in advanced subatomic particle research, Bill Clinton threw it away for the CERN cooks, with their freakish occultist fascination to manage this type of powerful machine. And also, delaying this type of research for decades.
The USA was building an even larger supercollider than the CERN collider back in the early 1990's. One of the first things Bill Clinton did when he became president was to end the project, and even went so far as to destroy parts that were already built. https://interestingengineering.com/usas-super-collider-lies-abandoned-texas-desert
So instead of the USA taking the lead in advanced subatomic particle research, Bill Clinton threw it away for the CERN cooks, with their freakish occultist fascination to manage this type of powerful machine. And also, delaying this type of research for decades.