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Vice President Harris is scheduled to stop in the battleground state of Michigan on Monday to highlight the federal government’s massive investment in manufacturing jobs, which former President Donald Trump has recently denounced.
The investment is part of the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which pumps $54 billion into the semiconductor manufacturing industry with the goal of reclaiming it from the dominance of Taiwan, South Korea and China.
Harris will visit the assembly line at Corning’s Saginaw plant, which makes polysilicon used in semiconductors. The plant received $325 million in funding from CHIPS. Her campaign told reporters she plans to tour a union training facility in Macomb County.
The trip comes as some Democrats urge Harris to focus more on the economy in the final stages of the campaign.
CHIPS Act investments have supported massive expansion of the semiconductor industry in Arizona, another battleground state, and other parts of the country. The White House announced that projects supported by CHIPS funds have helped create more than 115,000 jobs.
Former President Donald Trump (shown here at a press conference in Austin, Texas, October 25, 2024) gave an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan last week (shown here in a file photo on August 18, 2023). (pictured). AP/AP Hide captions
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On Friday, President Trump slammed the law in a lengthy interview on The Joe Rogan Experience. “That semiconductor deal was so bad that the subsidies were given to “wealthy companies,” President Trump said on his podcast.
President Trump said he could have imposed tariffs to get more companies to build facilities in the United States.
