A week after winning re-election, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Tuesday that she would invite President-elect Donald Trump to tour New York’s semiconductor manufacturing industry.
“As he has said publicly many times, he wants to see for himself that these are jobs that will last for decades, and that we want to be competitive with China. wants to beat China, and New York is the way to do that,” she told Spectrum News 1.
This comes after President Trump said tariffs would be better for manufacturing than the funding provided by CHIPS and the Science Act.
Republicans in Congress have also criticized parts of the 2022 law, particularly environmental regulations, which they say are slowing down the project.
Upstate New York is home to several semiconductor investments tied to the CHIPS Act, including Micron in Syracuse, IBM in the Hudson Valley, and GlobalFoundries in the Capital Region.
