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The exchange grew increasingly awkward as Radel asked Williams whether he would vote to repeal the legislation, signed by President Joe Biden in 2022, that Micron has said will create 50,000 semiconductor manufacturing jobs in the Syracuse area.
Speaking with anchor Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Ocasio-Cortez said the CHIPS Act "is not a remote and faraway thing for workers" in Upstate New York, Michigan, Arizona, and other states where jobs have been created by the legislation.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) echoed the congresswoman's sentiment, saying Johnson's plan to repeal the CHIPS Act would impact "tens of thousands of IBEW jobs created by this administration."
"We are NOT going back," said the union.
Johnson's remark got the attention of other politicians whose states have benefited from the law, including Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Less than two weeks ago, Whitmer announced that through the CHIPS Act, the Biden administration had provided $325 million in direct funding to Michigan manufacturer Hemlock Semiconductor, allowing it to create over 1,000 good-paying construction jobs to build a new facility as well as 180 permanent manufacturing jobs.
"Mike Johnson's asinine admission that he would repeal the CHIPS Act if Republicans and Trump win the election is a complete disaster for thousands of Michigan workers relying on the jobs that this legislation provides," said the Democratic governor. "Make no mistake, a repeal of the CHIPS Act would kill thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs right here in Michigan."
Johnson attempted to do damage control, saying he had "misheard the question," but Radel noted that he was standing close to the House speaker when he asked about the CHIPS Act and others commented that the word "repeal" was said clearly.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/chips-act-2022
trippingthelightfantastic
Credit Luke Radel, the young journalist asking the real questions msm won't.
CoarseAndSalty
Conservatives are going to cry that this is Gotcha media, but honestly if your office had done something extremely successful that was immensely supportive of your customers you'd fucking know. The fact that Republicans are oblivious to the impact of the Chips Act is all you need to know about what they're focused on.
walnutbreath
"I hate national security and economic competitiveness because the Democrats are in favor of it." - Your House Majority Leader
JackingMeHoff
Johnson & Congress Republicans stand behind a lunatic not their country. I want Kamala to win and appoint an aggressive AG/DOJ Head to go after & prosecute these traitors.
Clockworkdancerobot
He's just a Trump toady. Doing whatever Trump wants.
UnluckyLunkhead
It turns out after all that the MAGAts really want to import semiconductors from China.
artwalk2019co
Absolute piece of shit
dlandwerlen350
Johnson’s the guy who’d show up at a party with a 5 pack.
unremarkableasterisk
Weasel gonna weasel.
djangojazz
Republicans are dumb. And I mean dumb to a level they will undo things out of petulance alone and no real other reason.
fknbastard
The GOP platform should just be “I thought we agreed no fact checking”
SleepyHollowAppleTree
Goddamn, I hate that slimy little snake in the grass. Please vote these assholes out, if you like this country and want it to do well, we gotta get rid of these motherfuckers trying to drag us backwards.
vandude9090
It's hard to talk sense into people whose houses get hurricaned every year and they just rebuild them and do it again.
nowinvisibly
I did my part voting out Brandon Williams, the fucktard. The Micron plant will be such an economic boost for this area. Fuck these backwards looking chucklefucks.
TupacAintDead
Fucking spineless cunts
JohnSmithterms
The chips act is meant to secure Graphics and CPU chip production for many reasons in particular the ever increasing chance that China invades Taiwan which would cut off supply to an enormous amount of high end chips currently manufactured by NVIDIA. Anyone with any vague competence agrees that creating jobs AND securing critical Ai hardware is a win. It is valid to argue some of the minutiae of what is being proposed for sure. But only the dumbest motherfuckers disagree with the plan entirely.
JohnSmithterms
As a side note. Having an american manufacturing base to create chips used for Ai is also quite terrifying considering how much money they already spend on the military. I am really not liking this timeline but there is optimism ahead if you just hope for the best . But unfortunately I believe you get good at what you practice. I hope america, china and russia start practicing ecology and sustainability more so than how to wage war. Fuckers. 2/2
FreeNorth
3 letters that go next to his name : POS
ToSisPoS
“I was ambushed with a question that I didn’t know the answer to, and was tricked into answering truthfully.”
woozle
bekindtoanimals
HAHAHA!!!
LokiOnTheCouch
As dumb as this pic I s it never fails to make me laugh
bekindtoanimals
Right?
VinnyVeritas
So... House Speaker Johnson running the winning touchdown in for the Dems !
JARNSB
I found out the other day when i did my early voting that apparently i could vote against this asshole. Sadly though the only choice was another Republican. But still. There was a judge election like that too. I voted against the sitting judge because he was clearly pro MAGA.
Realeztoremember
I’m not an expert so correct me if I’m wrong but repealing the CHIPS act would reduce Semiconductor manufacturing in the US. We would then need to get chips from China. Since Trump’s plan is to put massive tariffs on goods from China, we would then be paying higher prices for EVERY product that contains a computer chip. Not just smartphones and computers but Fridges, cars, speakers, even some lightbulbs. Seems like a bad idea.
tomgordon55
just another GOP leader who lies
tomgordon55
Just another
tomgordon55
Another
EscalatorCongestion
The CHiPs Act is the single most important counter-espionage act in world history. It includes the EU and all of North America in a single act of unity against China and Russia / So of course, the Republicans are against it. They are significantly funded by Russians, and China takes a massive blow in the semiconductor market as the act funds new U.S. based plants
Seanspeed
Thing is, it had bipartisan support. Even Mitch McConnell voted for it in the Senate. It's the Trump wing of the Republicans that were most against it. Also, Bernie voted against it.
thetinymonarch
When is the next possibility to replace him with a actually good human
InfocalypseRising
The impression I get from this clip is that he has no idea what the CHIPS and Science Act actually is, he just heard the word "science" and went "yeah we'll probably kill that"
BlueCoyote42
Okay, but that is worse, right? It's important to me you see that that's WORSE.
medimr
He is a young-earth creationist, so it's probably not far off.
Seanspeed
No, he knows. He voted against it previously, and it was pretty huge, headline piece of legislation based around not just jobs, but also national security concerns so there was bipartisan support for it(or else it wouldn't have ever passed to begin with).
RElGNMAN
Instead of wasting time in trying to undo every good thing Democrats have passed, the Republicans need to go out and do their own thing by coming up with good ideas and trying to pass them.
Cthulhuonabike
The o ly people they are interested in helping are their investors that help them concentrate more wealth for themselves
BastardMan1977
Yeah but that's the thing: They don't have any good ideas. All they want to do is "hurr hurr own the libs"
somerandomusernamething
That's what the low level republicans want. The high level ones just want tax cuts for the rich
Calicoastin818
Rat ass publicans are racist criminal fascist aholes
SteveMND
If they could do that, they wouldn't be Republicans anymore.
funone77
Bwahaha. The Republicans that you are referring to were shoved out then doors for the current lot. It's maga fucktards allll the way down.
sleepinggreenidea
They are, they're just not doing it in the loser lower houses of Congress. They're cutting straight to the chase by doing all their legislation in the highest house of Congress, the one that can't be overruled or repealed by mere elected officials: SCOTUS.
InfocalypseRising
Why? Being racist, elitist shitbags has been working for them for...50 years? More, probably? They don't have any other tricks in their bag.
eetsumkaus
Yeah, the irony of the "embargo China" people doing away with legislation that deals with the consequences of that ideology...
Clockworkdancerobot
They have none. It's been a grift for decades. Tax cuts for the rich have done tons of damage to the country.
cabalin
Their ideas are for the rich only.
PutItInNeutral
The only thing they want to pass are tax cuts for the rich, deregulation of industry to boost corporate profits, and drawing power to themselves. Everything else they do is scapegoating to achieve those ends.
RockKickass
But if they undo them they can free up more money to give billionaires
rossonerinho
trumplikkkans are only good at two things. 1) telling you what to be afraid of. 2) telling you who is to blame.
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
Careful, because "hey Republicans, why don't you come up with some ideas of your own" is how we got book bannings, state-sponsored bullying of trans kids, COVID encouragement, and "tough on crime" policies that boil down to "terrorizing your community"
WenTheEternallySurprised
They abandoned that utterly when they got in bed with the Tea Party. It was a formal decision to stop any attempt at governing and simply obstruct anything the Democrats do. ALL THEY HAVE is opposition. The Republicans who could actually manage a government were driven out.
NuclearMonk
In his defense, he probably thought CHIPS was referring to the children's health insurance program. That doesn't make it any better at all though.
FoamingToad
Or that TV series from the 1970s. Yes, I'm that old.
Writingpastwit
He's going to get that show canceled for sure. No new episodes.
TooRexyForMyShirt
Mike Johnson is definitely the kind of person who got shoved into lockers and bullied for lunch money because he kept raising his hand to ask a question in the last 14 seconds of class.
Couchwarrior1337
As that asshole who was genuinely just invested in learning I'm offended by the comparison.
Vantheus
I hate it when people say shit like this like it's a justification for bullying in the first place. Dudes a piece of shit but don't take a bully's side because of it. Shit thing to say
Doobiedog
While that is a dick move, it's at least responsible. This guy is just a complete piece of shit -- this comparison is unfair to the dork that asked a question in the last 14sec of class.
Timesarrows
hey that was me and i didn't turn out as a FFFing lying scumbag cheater! i'm a liberal when everyone was coward to call themselves that and they after 2 decades thought up a new name "Progressive" to call themselves. the christian cons have been wrong on every issue for the last 250 years. liberals like me correct all those christian con wrongs. Catholic Archbishop Dolan supporting a RAPIST (and probably pedophile)
eetsumkaus
Progressive isn't the same as "liberal" though. Progressives align more with the European left of center and most "liberals" would be conservatives in European systems. Many Democrats do not in fact identify as Progressives, including much of the center.
dontrike
His kid bullies him for the porn he watches
rossimus
He and his son monitor each other's porn usage.
unremarkableasterisk
He's the kid that raised his hand as the bell rang and said, "Teacher, you forgot to assign us homework."
Bhargo
"wasnt there supposed to be a quiz today" type
TooRexyForMyShirt
He definitely sabotaged other students' homework so that he got more gold stars.
ilovebigmutts
At least he didn't shoot up a school. America is a joke, a terrible, terrible joke.
DSREX
I am curious it is frankly bold to call out the US for its problems without comment about your own country.
Show me a country free of problems, or a nasty dirty history. I will wait.
denimdenis
No, he just enables the people that so shoot up schoola
DSREX
It is because of people like Johnson that we dont have common sense gun control.
And there is nothing scarier than a true believer gun nut. Let alone one that is also paid off by the Gun Lobbies.
dontrike
Nah, he's just a person that wants to shoot up America
dorenavant
Say what you will about our USA but understand we are a relatively young experiment of a country that has been a pioneer in many different domains. We are a work in progress but we will get there eventually.
ilovetraveler
I feel like he's the type of dude to be racist to the one black kid in an all white school, and then play the victim when he finally gets his ass beat.
nankervi442
Teacher?! You forgot to ask for last night’s homework.