The US president is visiting the border-emergency state Arizona to promote domestic computer chip manufacture
US President Joe Biden is visiting Phoenix to promote his government’s CHIPS Act, aimed at subsidizing the manufacture of computer chips domestically, he told reporters as he prepared to board Air Force One on the White House lawn on Tuesday.
Asked why he was not including a stop at the beleaguered Customs and Border Protection office on his itinerary in Arizona, Biden told the reporter “there are more important things going on” than that agency’s work. “They are going to invest billions of dollars in a new enterprise in the state,” Biden explained.
The bipartisan CHIPS Act was enacted in August, in an effort to address China’s grip over the US electronics supply chain, particularly with regard to advanced computing technology.
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