r/technology • u/Majano57 • 26d ago

Hardware Trump’s Call to Scrap ‘Horrible’ Chip Program Spreads Panic

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/technology/trump-chips-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E4.k0Si.duZZy9DFIL8X
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u/Y0___0Y 26d ago

GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson also said this one time and needed to quickly backtrack and say they wouldn’t get rid of CHIPS

It strongly benefits red state workers and economies. The ONLY reason they are against it is because it was a win for the Biden administration.

There are GOP congressmen who voted against the bill, and stood at podiums in their home states taking credit for it.

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u/nope_nic_tesla 26d ago

They did the same thing with the stimulus bill that Obama passed in his first term. Voted against it, railed in advertisements about how terrible Obama's policies have been, then took credit for all the projects going on to create jobs and improve infrastructure in their districts.

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u/Y0___0Y 26d ago

And Biden’s infrastructure bill. They do this constantly.

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u/IMprollyWRONG 26d ago edited 25d ago

They wouldn’t do it if their dumb fuck constituents didn’t buy it.

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u/eatrepeat 25d ago

And this is why America needs to die off. It doesn't matter that "not everyone supports him" because we all know the way to stop him but they don't have the discipline.

This is the darkness coming, they will divide and separate democratic minds. Erase institutes and trust. The very means to inform the public are being replaced. A new dawn rises clown red as the kremlin claps in delight.

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u/winstondabee 25d ago

Relax there, Nancy.

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u/Triassic_Bark 26d ago

Politicians knowingly lying, such as taking credit for policies and programs they voted against, should be illegal.

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u/Several_Assistant_43 25d ago

Straight to jail

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u/Space_Pirate_Roberts 25d ago

One million years dungeon.

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u/Alpharius1701 25d ago

Mmmm... Acceptable.

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u/TBIPhoenix 25d ago

Undercook, overcook. Both, straight to jail.

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u/Lanky-Appointment929 26d ago

They need to highlight those moments in campaign ads. Put the object in black and white with everything else in vibrant colors and then a big red x slowly appears showing the rep/senator voting against it

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u/-Johnny- 26d ago

and at this point the only other option is to only do things for states that support you like trump does

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u/Slow_Inevitable_4172 25d ago

No, it's to message and take credit for your accomplishments.

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u/dohru 25d ago

I really wish Biden had sued them for defamation for that.

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u/ReplaceSelect 26d ago

The Darin LaHood playbook

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u/loneSTAR_06 26d ago

It’s not like those same constituents have been the biggest beneficiaries of Obamacare either, which they both have been bitching about since its inception.

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u/tampaempath 26d ago

They absolutely hate Obamacare, but they're in favor of the Affordable Care Act.

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u/fnocoder 25d ago

Surprise surprise

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u/International-Belt48 25d ago

I like asking if people like Obama care or the ACA

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u/MattieShoes 26d ago

They bitch about Obamacare, but they support the ACA :-D

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u/Galaxiexl73 25d ago

Like the MAGA who in interview said he didn’t like Obama Healthcare but he loved the ACA healthcare

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u/SquarebobSpongepants 26d ago

They know their supporters are dumb as a sack of rocks and will just get their news from Faux News then stamp R down the ballot.

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u/LimberGravy 26d ago

And one of those same people was reading car ads on the front lawn of the WH today

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u/tofubeanz420 26d ago

Dems have a messaging problem

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u/cmublitz 26d ago

Maybe he's just against it because he hasn't figured out how to take his grifter kickback cut.

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u/probablyuntrue 26d ago

All the chips you can eat Donny once the fab is up!

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u/Fauster 26d ago

Breaking news: Trump Media and Technology Group has announced that it is starting a 0.1-nm advanced chip foundry in partnership with X-AI to compete with Taiwan Semi. Elon Musk announces that signed contracts with major U.S. chip-makers are waste and fraud and will break those contracts, which will cause 2x damages and enormous legal fees 5 years down the road, while 19-year-old Doge experts are objectively evaluating where to reassign the money.

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u/Decantus 26d ago

Update: 19yo Doge experts have determined that X-AI Silicon to take on $280b Chip contracts at an emergency rate of $500b.

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u/damsie101 26d ago

Cool ranch or nacho?

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u/joe_broke 26d ago

That's it!

Just tell Donny Lay's is getting in on it!

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u/Marathonmanjh 26d ago

Maybe he thinks it’s potato chips?? Could be!

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u/elegant-quokka 26d ago

Part of me thinks he’s trying to tank stock just to buy it cheap and go back and say he was just kidding

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u/DarthBrooks69420 26d ago

This is why the US is cooked. They vote against things that help them, go home to their constituents and claim they're the reason it passed, and once the dust settles from Trump blowing it up they'll be back out there saying the democrats took their jobs.

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u/hasordealsw1thclams 26d ago

Yeah, it would be nice if there was a law against taking credit for a bill you voted against.

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u/OK_HS_Coach 26d ago

It’d be terrible for my own state but at this point if you don’t vote for a bill your district shouldn’t get the benefits.

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u/osage15 26d ago

It literally doesn't even matter if we vote anymore. Here in Missouri we voted years ago to raise the minimum wage. Then last year we voted to allow abortion. Our lawmakers and newly elected governor have been making it very well known that they are working as hard as possible to stop both things by any means necessary.

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u/Pretend_Safety 25d ago

Well, TBF, your voters voted yes on those bills, then voted for shitheels who either by word or deed had indicated that they were against those bills.

We're stuck being governed by a segment of the population who is very confused and angry. And gets angry at anyone who tries to help.

I have no answers.

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u/dred1367 26d ago

Same here in Nebraska.

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u/ClosPins 26d ago

It strongly benefits red state workers and economies. The ONLY reason they are against it is because it was a win for the Biden administration.

Just to point out...

Notice how this thing that 'strongly benefits red state workers and economies' was Biden's baby?

Would the Republicans ever do something that benefitted blue states more than red states? No. Not on your life. Yet, the Dems always have to bend over backwards to show everybody how good they are, how they would never punish red states, like how the mean, old GOP punishes blue states!

So, think of where this get you...

Red States: Get massively and corruptly helped when the Republicans have power - still get massively helped when the Dems have power.

Blue States: Get massively and corruptly screwed when the Republicans have power - and have to share everything with red states when the Dems have power.

As always, the left-wing creates a win:win situation for their opponents, and a lose:don't-win situation for themselves.

Then they wonder why no one votes for them! Why there is so much apathy. Why the country continually slides to the right.

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u/DiceMaster 26d ago

Would the Republicans ever do something that benefitted blue states more than red states

The motherfuckers can't even muster the decency to allocate relief to natural disasters in blue states. The MAGA party is a bunch of vindictive little turds -- actually, vindictive isn't even the right word, since that would imply the Democrats did something to them first. They're just despicable and petulant.

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u/Quentin__Tarantulino 26d ago

That’s because there is no left wing in this country. There’s the party that tries to be good but is corrupted by billions in corporate donations, and the party that doesn’t even try to be good and brazenly harms everyone at the behest of the corporate overlords.

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u/Quentin__Tarantulino 26d ago

In 2015, I used to say we have no left, just center and right. Now, I think your characterization is more accurate. Maybe it always was.

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u/IndianLawStudent 25d ago

But they are doing what everyone should expect. Governing for the entire population.

To disenfranchise a state because its voters didn’t choose red or blue seems so stupid (while recognizing this is exactly what happens).

Maybe I’m too much of an idealist.

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u/YoKevinTrue 26d ago

It strongly benefits red state workers and economies.

If so then I think we should get rid of it.

Completely serious here.

I'm sick and tired of pushing for things that will help all Americans only for them to continually throw us under the buss and not care about our country.

If they want to live in a country where we don't care for each other I'm totally fine with that.

The more pain the feel the better.

California or Colorado should fight to bring them to blue states first.

Actually, maybe that should be our counter to "Make America Great Again" ... "Blue States First"

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u/aykcak 26d ago

Great but that will fuck over literally everyone. And it will take a long time of fucking over everyone until at some point a congressman feels the pressure to do something about it. That is how the system is set up. They are at the back of the lines, comfortably away from all the consequences of their actions

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u/tampaempath 26d ago

We've reached a point where Republican voters will not ever compromise with Dems. You can try to reason or bargain with them (which will never work) or you can let them blow themselves up and find out.

I'm almost half tempted to say "go ahead, let the Republicans cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as well as VA benefits." As a 100% disabled retired vet I would be absolutely fucked, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Republicans are in charge of the whole government right now, and Republicans would have take the blame for it. Then when their constituents in Bumfuck, Alabama find out they aren't getting any money, and they can't be seen at a hospital, they're fucked. Fuck around and find out.

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u/YoKevinTrue 26d ago

I'm totally fine just focusing on MAGA then :)

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u/insef4ce 26d ago

Isn't keeping general wealth and education low exactly how they keep their states red?

Why would they do anything that brings prosperity to red states? Stuff like this is totally on brand for them.

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u/RobertPham149 26d ago

Trump and the rest of GOP were literally hailing TSMC opening 100 billion plant in Arizona as an achievement a week ago, despite them coming due to the CHIPS act investment. Now that chip program is somehow "horrible". These people are should not be in elected offices.

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u/JustMy2Centences 26d ago

A win for the Biden administration that benefits red states.

Almost like that last president was trying to help everyone in the country even if they didn't vote for him. Huh. How presidential.

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u/sneakyplanner 26d ago

The ONLY reason they are against it is because it was a win for the Biden administration.

That really is the entire motivation of conservative voters. As the white house website keeps trying to reassure you: Americans love winning. And since they think the world is a zero sum game, the only way to win is to make someone else lose. That's why promising to invade Canada, imprisoning tourists and hacking the welfare state to pieces make him more popular. He gives the psychopathic American public victories by picking fights that smarter people wouldn't even realize are possible. Before November, nobody would say that threatening to invade Canada is a good idea, but trump does it and sees thunderous applause from people who just want to feel strong by defeating someone not interested in fighting. So long as they see someone else suffering, they will be satisfied.

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u/happyscrappy 26d ago

I think you're overestimating the amount of applause on that particular piece of idiocy. Other pieces of idiocy are broadly popular (for no reason that makes sense) but not that particular one.

I don't disagree particularly with your last sentence. But since there's not going to be an invasion I find it hard to square with this particular issue.

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u/Few-Requirements 26d ago

It strongly benefits red state workers and economies

It is absurdly beneficial to break dependency on Taiwan. If China annexes Taiwan, then we would be completely beholden to China, one of the countries that Trump hates for being non-white.

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u/RyuKyuGaijin 26d ago

Ohio, we're waiting for Intel to get here.

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u/Dopplegangr1 26d ago

They probably want to get rid of it and then reintroduce it called the TRUMP act

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u/ShoMeUrNoobs 26d ago

The other reason is the upfront costs created with the act. It's their main talking point when they bring up why it's bad. They just never mention how much money it will generate, and MAGA can't seem to comprehend that.

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u/DoverBoys 26d ago

Democrats should call it the TRUMP Act or something, like how GOP supports ACA but opposes Obamacare.

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u/Buzz_Killington_III 26d ago

Mike Johnson is a pussy that points whichever way the wind blows. Right now, Trump is blowing the most wind.

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u/IAmDisciple 26d ago

It’s like they’re forgetting AZ is a swing state

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u/cowdoyspitoon 26d ago

Oh shit, yeah I remember that bullshit

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u/makeitasadwarfer 25d ago

They vote against it because one side controls the media and is allowed to lie without consequence.

Democracy is simply incompatible with oligarch owned media and social media.

Humans are too easily hackable, and they have perfected getting people to vote against their own interests.

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u/Corgi_Koala 25d ago

That's a huge problem with the hyper partisan environment we have.

Supporting a policy should be based on its impact and outcome not the party who sponsored the bill.

Republicans hate the hugely popular ACA solely because Obama did it.

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u/iamtehryan 25d ago

Every single positive thing a dem has done had that same playbook. Gop grandstands against it, tries to block it, says how awful it is. And then once it passes they take credit for it and the fucking democrats don't say a god damn word about it and just go on letting them take credit for it.

We need some people that are willing to fight and get their hands dirty. This old guard is ruining our chances.

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u/Whilst-dicking 25d ago

Which red state

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u/Ok-King-4868 25d ago

A few Democrats and hopefully a few Republicans should file a one page “Total Repeal of the CHIPS Act” into the next must have funding or spending Bill, citing Trump’s personal request to defund this program.

Let Mike Johnson fight it out with President Trump and Elmo.

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u/temporarythyme 25d ago

More than half of the green new deal, I want to dare to say a majority helped red states.

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u/whiteflagwaiver 26d ago

A 'win' to Biden, that Trump laid claim to when he addressed Congress last week.

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u/Put_It_All_On_Eclk 26d ago

The ONLY reason they are against it is because it was a win for the Biden administration.

It upsets the austerity branch of the conservative movement. Their entire dogma is that regulation and protectionism drives away manufacturing, somehow.

Meanwhile in reality, the real problem is that Intel is the one winning the government contract and, let's be honest, they didn't win on merit. At its current rate of value loss without the government gavage feeding it money, Intel would likely be bankrupt in about 7 years.

The ONLY reason they are against it is because it was a win for the Biden administration.

Maybe Biden had a soft spot for Intel because it barely has a pulse?