Harris touts CHIPS Act as she tours semiconductor facility
In a visit to a semiconductor facility in central Michigan, Harris praised the manufacturing work happening there and noted the importance of outpacing China.
“Look, we’ve got to win the competition for the 21st century,” she said at Hemlock Semiconductor in Saginaw. “We’re not going to have China beat us in the competition for the 21st century, and that’s about, then, doing the work that Corning is going to be doing about manufacturing of these solar panels, together with the work that you are doing here.”
Harris cited the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act as ways she has tried to boost America’s manufacturing power.
“I want to thank you all for what you're doing here, as a great example of what was a vision that we had -- the president and I and Congressman -- we're going to create a meaningful public investment in America's private industries through the CHIPS act, through the Inflation Reduction Act, and we're going to infuse it with billions of dollars, knowing that if we do that, as that old saying comes, if you build it, they will come,” she said.
Harris used the opportunity to slam Trump for “how he’d get rid of the CHIPS Act.” Trump criticized the bipartisan law while on Joe Rogan's podcast last week.
-ABC News' Will McDuffie