It must be true because the Associated Press says it
Biden administration to provide $325 million for new Michigan semiconductor factory
The Biden administration said Monday that it would provide up to $325 million to Hemlock Semiconductor for a new factory, a move that could help give Democrats a political edge in the swing state of Michigan ahead of election day.
The funding would support 180 manufacturing jobs in Saginaw County, where Republicans and Democrats were neck-and-neck for the past two presidential elections. There would also be construction jobs tied to the factory that would produce hyper-pure polysilicon, a building block for electronics and solar panels, among other technologies.
Now, imagine it was the Trump admin giving a large sum of money to a company right before an election in a state they needed to win: would it be treated like above, or would they and the other Credentialed Media outlets be screaming about Trump trying to buy the election? That it was improper and the Democrats in the House should file articles of impeachment?
Beyond that
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on a call with reporters that the funding came from the CHIPS and Science Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022. It’s part of a broader industrial strategy that the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, supports, while Republican nominee Donald Trump, the former president, sees tariff hikes and income tax cuts as better to support manufacturing.
“What we’ve been able to do with the CHIPS Act is not just build a few new factories, but fundamentally revitalize the semiconductor ecosystem in our country with American workers,” Raimondo said. “All of this is because of the vision of the Biden-Harris administration.”
That bipartisan law was on August 9th, 2022. We’re over two years later. The point was to quickly give loans and grants to get semi-conducter chips manufactured here in the United States. The majority of those came well over a year after it was passed. The Biden-Harris admin didn’t even start accepting applications till March of 2023. For some reason, giant company Intel was given tens of billions. Oh, and Intel just announced they will lay off thousands.
Running in 2016, Trump narrowly won Saginaw County and Michigan as a whole. But in 2020 against Biden, both Saginaw County and Michigan flipped to the Democrats.
Biden beat Trump by just 50.6% to 47.8% in 2020. Trump beat Hillary by just 1.2%. Democrats had won the county during the Bush and Obama years, so, Biden-Harris are dumping this graft money into the county for a project that will take years to start. If ever. This is using vast sums of taxpayer funds to influence an election.
It would be fun if a reporter asked Kamala to explain the money giveaway and what it will mean for the area. The word salad would be epic.
In other news, the Trump/Musk ticket is building a $10 BILLION Tesla plant! In Mexico!! To employ some 7000 Mexicans!!
The Tesla Gigafactory is scheduled to open in 2025. Chinese component suppliers are also building nearby.
Will Trump put a 60% tariff on his buddy’s cars?
Oh, Rimjob.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/musk-says-tesla-gigafactory-in-mexico-paused-because-of-potential-trump-tariffs/
Try to keep up, fatass.
And remain stupid.
Suckers! “Musk said it!! I believe it! That settles it!!”
When will you learn that nothing these men say can be believed?
It’s part of the campaign, dumbass.
For some one finds Musk more believable than some child molesting swindler from Affton, MO.
Thanks Rimjob.
You really are an idiot.
Total sucker. “Musk said it!! I refuse to believe it! That settles it!!”
No, Elwood rather believes Musk will go for the tariffs rather than pick a different location.
At nearly 2 million dollars per job, just give the money to the employees and let them live like kings instead of the Democratic party donors just getting richer.
That might not result in more US Chip quality silicon and US chips. Make America productive again.
Yeah, heed Rimjob’s advice.
He knows how to “lose” money quickly.
Not sure where Mr Teach obtained this quote:
It wasn’t in the linked article.
BTW, the CHIPS and Science Act passed both the House and Senate with significant Republican support.
Oh Rimjob!
It wasn’t in the linked article.
Libturds are so entertaining.
Bwaha! Lolgf
That’s because there’s nary a spit of difference between the two. Only when it comes to taxes. That’s why we Patriots call it “the uniparty”.
Hemlock is by far the biggest producer of chip grade silicon in the USA. This will further reduce our need to begin silicon from China
This grant is part of a 36 billion dollar CHIPs bipartisan approved funding going out to 20 states.
The Left seems to have forgotten that the Chip industry in the USA was built in the first place without any federal government “investment”. The Left also seems to believe that as long as the money gets paid to the right people, “it’s good for America”. The Left also seems to not understand that the Right remembers all those other times when vast amount of federal tax money went to “economic investments” and it really just went into the pockets of wealthy connected Democrats. Shovel ready jobs? Solar power and green energy jobs? Sure. This time is different.