President Donald Trump’s call to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act during his address to Congress Tuesday night is putting several Senate Republicans in an awkward spot — again.
In his speech, Trump said the bipartisan law is “a horrible, horrible thing” and called for its repeal. The remarks seemed to contradict his own announcement seconds earlier that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company would invest $100 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.
Lawmakers say the CHIPS law, which aimed to foster domestic semiconductor production and research into the technology, was instrumental in that deal. Seventeen GOP senators supported the bill when it passed in 2022.
