"Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing," Trump said during a joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. "You should get rid of the CHIP Act, and whatever's left over, Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt, or any other reason you want to." That landed with a thud among the Republicans who backed the sweeping legislation two and half years ago.
"I have to admit, I was surprised," Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, the Republican co-author of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, told reporters on Wednesday morning. "It's been one of the greatest successes of our time."
The bill included $39 billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing in the US, plus $13.2 billion for semiconductor research and workforce development. The goal of the legislation was to make the US less reliant on chips manufactured in Taiwan, create US manufacturing jobs, and bolster competition with China — something that was especially important for national security-minded Republicans.
It passed both chambers on a bipartisan basis, garnering the enthusiastic support of then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, plus the support of 16 other GOP senators and virtually all Democrats.
Trump Wants Republicans to Kill CHIPS Act. They May Just Ignore Him. - Business Insider
Less than an hour after President Donald Trump finished his joint address to Congress on Tuesday, lawyers cited his words as evidence in a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk's role in the administration's drastic cuts to federal spending, workers and services.
Lawyers representing a group of nonprofits and unions that are challenging the legality of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, included an excerpt from the speech in their filing Tuesday with the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., to argue that more information is "urgently needed to ascertain the nature" of the budget-slashing group.
The White House has represented that DOGE is run by acting administrator Amy Gleason, rather than by Musk. However, during his address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Trump clearly identified Musk as the person running DOGE, seemingly contradicting his own administration.
Lawyers Use Trump's Speech Before Congress In Suit Against DOGE - ABC News
Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
— Jesse Eisinger (@jeisinger.bsky.social) 5 March 2025 at 17:20
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