Trump officials enlisted to pass legislation to bolster American semiconductor competition with China

The Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is enlisting former Trump officials on Monday to convince Congress to pass legislation bolstering America’s semiconductor industry.

Trump officials enlisted to pass legislation to bolster American semiconductor competition with China

Hans Nichols for Axois:

Officials believe the bill will make American manufacturing more competitive with China.

The bill has stalled because of differences between the House and the Senate on how much — and where — to spend billions of dollars to strengthen America’s supply lines… Both bills include some $52 billion to incentivize companies to build semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the U.S.

The Senate bill, which received 18 Republican votes, totaled $250 billion, and included money for other industries on the front lines of the U.S-China rivalry. In addition, it had funding to overhaul the National Science Foundation. The House version grew to $335 billion and includes money for workers whose jobs have been outsourced, in addition to environmental and trade provisions. Only one Republican supported it.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is hosting H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s former national security adviser; Matthew Pottinger, another Trump NSC official; Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google; and members of Congress, including Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), on Monday for a virtual conversation about semiconductor manufacturing.

“This is clearly a national security issue, so we’ll be bringing together experts from both sides of the aisle, including Trump supporters,” Raimondo told Axios. “Every day that we wait is a day that we fall behind.”

MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote back in October 2020 when Apple lobbied the Trump administration for lower taxes to boost U.S. chip production, “Better to spread your eggs out than to entrust them to just a single basket.”

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      1. So, genius, how woefully stupid are the Democrat losers that they have to turn to so-called “tRumptards” (oh so inventive, oh so funny) in order to get things done?

        1. Sarah/Hal: The GOP lost. Your orange hero is busy golfing. Go find something else to do than criticize an administration that actually works together with other people.

        1. Voting for Dementia Reagan because you don’t like Carter was like eating shit because you don’t like broccoli. How does your disastrous propaganda shit taste?

        2. Reagan and Trump are some of the worst presidents in history, that might be the one correct opinion you’ve ever shared Hal. Actor and arms dealer Reagan lied and actually did have dementia. Clueless Donny just lied and golfed and tweeted while Rocket Man made bigger rockets and Putin lined up his tanks on the Ukraine border.

          Put up an honest candidate and maybe the GOP would be relevant again. Keep trolling for 76 year old Donny and you will keep being losers, no matter how hard you try to suppress voting. When McConnell is the only sane person left in your party, you know you’re losing. Again.

          PS. Biden isn’t your enemy. A younger candidate will succeed him, and you trumptards will have to make up more reasons why Donny Jr or whatever handpicked orange successor to Donny loses. Good luck with your FUD machine.

        3. @ Firstfuck Hal — first off you are a potty mouth and guessing Firsty & HAL ignored your stupid post which has no connection to reality. The scary part is you actually believe your fantasy 🐂💩

          Reagan was the greatest statesman and feel good orator, while Trump the greatest swamp change agent that set the economy on fire in record time. Get over it.

          You lie about Rocket man Trump held in check and the first U.S. president to have the courage to meet him in person.

          “Put up an honest candidate and maybe the GOP would be relevant again.” Earth to brainless, You believe Biden is relevant? You have it just the OPPOSITE of reality. The polls uniformly show it’s the Democrat Party that is irrelevant and the red tidal wave is coming.

          “Good luck with your FUD machine.” Obviously you have zero sense of self awareness— you just described your own post…🤣

        4. @Troll Alert the census has nothing to do with @Jill post. It’s true the disadvantaged and illegal border crossers breed more. A Gallup poll, that is poll, NOT census official numbers in 2021 indicate a shift of more people identified as R’s and passed D’s. Same poll says I’s rule…

        5. The country isn’t overrun with democrats. It’s overrun with idiots of all political types who get their misinformation from social media and are too lazy to verify anything they read.

          https://news.gallup.com/poll/388988/political-ideology-steady-conservatives-moderates-tie.aspx

          Gallup concluded this year that most people claim to be moderate or conservative. The conservatives are the least educated. Just the way Donald lives them.

          But you go on and believe that you’re a persecuted minority, you white trash troll.

        6. A doddling old man who is willing to delegate is a billion times more desirable than a nepotistic serial liar with no concept of how the government is supposed to work.

          Americans decided by what you would say is a landslide. Get over it, snowflake.

    1. The Left (incl our VP): “we don’t want his vaccine”.
      When he’s out of office: “you better take the vaccine, or else…”

      When he’s in office: “stop oil drilling…green is the way.”
      When out of office and green can’t supply the need…”let’s talk with Venezuela and Iran to buy oil.”

      How will the left respond per this suggestion…truly an existential need? Probably; “stay away…his proposal bad and the country can’t use land for chip factory.” “Let China take over Tiawan…we will buy chips, that have surveillance tech, from China. We need land for solar panels and spinners.”

      Conclusion: left has little conviction per principles, but acts like young person that’s hurt by someone’s words. Result?…cut off nose in-spite of….

      We want to go with our man that leads to nowhere, can’t speak/think and bends to the progressive nuttiness in the D Party and we will call it good.

  1. It’s not that we didn’t like trumps policies, we couldn’t take the narcistic asshole he had become. The size and scale of his ego grew to unstable levels during his term requiring us to vote him out.

    1. You did not vote Trump out. America was scammed.

      25 Big Questions That Democrats Can’t Answer About The 2020 Election — Because They Know They Cheated

      Why did the vote counting stop on election night in several swing states?

      Why did the vote counting delays only happen in swing states?

      Why were election observers barred from entering vote counting stations in swing states?

      Why did Trey Trainor, the chair of the Federal Election Commission, declare on TV that election “observers have not been allowed into the polling locations in a meaningful way” and that “if they’re not, the law is not being followed, making this an illegitimate election” on November 6th, 2020?

      Why are any electronic voting machines hooked up to the Internet?

      Why were votes from the 2020 election sent overseas for “processing” and “tabulation” purposes?

      Why would votes from 30 states in America be processed by a Canadian firm?

      Why would the company that “tabulates” votes for 800 American counties be a recently bankrupt Barcelona-based firm with the Department of Defense as its best-known client?

      Why would America’s electronic voting machines be under the ownership of citizens from foreign nations?

      Why are so many electronic voting machine companies owned by shell companies?

      Why did it take Maricopa County (Arizona) two weeks to count its votes?

      Why did an audit expert find 74,000 more votes were counted in Maricopa County (Arizona) than were mailed out?

      Why did Mark Zuckerberg fork over $400 million to his personal charity to run a parallel private election system in 2020?

      Why did the Special Counsel in Wisconsin just release a report that called Zuckerberg’s donations in five Wisconsin counties a classic case of bribery?

      Why did AG Merrick Garland at Biden’s Department of Justice threaten to interfere in a post-election audit conducted in Arizona — and authorized by the state of Arizona?

      Why did a county circuit court judge in Wisconsin rule that the Wisconsin Elections Commission had run the 2020 election in an illegal manner?

      Why have the voting machine companies refused to comply with subpoenas from the state officials of Wisconsin?

      Why do the voting machine companies refuse to have their machines inspected even though these machines are used in public elections?

      Why is a federal judge in Georgia refusing to release a report by a cybersecurity expert who inspected a Dominion machine and found it vulnerable to hacking and manipulation of the votes?

      Why has Dominion Voting Systems refused to comply with the post-election audit in Arizona — which was ordered by the State of Arizona itself?

      Why are more than 300,000 ballot transfer forms missing in Georgia’s 2020 election?

      Why did Dominion Voting Systems fail to show up and answer questions from the elected officials of Pennsylvania after the 2020 election?

      Why do 204,430 mail-in ballots in Arizona have mismatched signatures?

      Why do 740,000 mail-in ballots in Arizona have broken chain of custody?

      Why did the Wisconsin Special Counsel find that 50 nursing homes had 100% voter turnout and that cheating was widespread?

        1. 7 times bankrupt loser without an individual accomplishment to his name. Your definition of genius should be more meaningful than “braggart who inherited his wealth and privileges”.

          But then, it doesn’t take but a few dozen lies repeated ad nauseum to impress those three or four trolls here who think Trump was effective.

        1. To anger a conservative, provide objective data that trumptards will always claim to be lies.
          To anger a liberal, come to a Mac website with your empty trumptard rhetoric

        2. The amount of lies told to libturds by the communist media is staggering.
          The amount of news withheld from libturds by he communist media is staggering.
          The amount of stupidity that it takes not to know it is staggering.

        3. The amount of lies told to libturds by the conservitard media is staggering.
          The amount of news withheld from trumpistas by he conservitard media is staggering.
          The amount of stupidity that it takes not to know a liar donny has always been is staggering.

        4. “To anger a conservative, provide objective data that trumptards will always claim to be lies.”

          Exactly the OPPOSITE you’re talking about Dumbocrats.

          Hunter Biden’s laptop was ignored by the media and roundly discredited by major news outlets. Then last week after two years N.Y. Times finally confirmed and investigation continues.

          Russian collusion Trump working for Putin and a stolen election. Two years and $34 million Mueller investigation and the final result? NOTHING!

          Just two examples to throughly prove you’re talking about the wrong party. Take off the blunders hyper partisan…

        1. Those are figures for the entire world, not China.

          The U.S. trade deficit with China dropped under Trump. The trade deficit with China fell to US$310.8 billion in 2020, down from US$419.5 billion in 2018.

          Your little chart reflects an increase in import/export deficits with Vietnam and Mexico and increased imports of gold from Switzerland due to skittishness in financial markets about the U.S. economy during the irrational and stupid COVID lockdowns.

        2. But but but the only trade I care about is with Chyyynnnaa!

          What a stupid dolt you are First. World trade isn’t a 2 player game. Your favorite orange idiot was over his head and we all pay for it now.

          Trade plummeted under The Donald immediately because he didn’t win any of his self inflicted trade wars. Too sad you can’t find any actual data to prove otherwise.

      1. Firstfuck is too stupid to realize that his boss was in power for the 2020 election. If there was any fraud at the federal level it was his administration with the duty to expose and prove it. All the whatif questions should have been resolved by the AG. Barr found no fraud.

        All you got is sore loser skyscreaming. So find something better to do with your time than whiiiiiiiiiine endlessly, you stupid troll. And take your pet poodle Hal with you on the way out.

        1. The last dementia patient to occupy the White House was Reagan. A poorly informed actor who lied only a little less than Trump. How convenient you repeated describe the loser presidents of your party with your attempted insults.

      2. Trump/Putin scammed us all and should be locked up and sentenced for murder, mass murder, war crimes, insulting my intelligence- and sentenced to jail for treason too to a life without parole but in this case I’ll gladly overlook my objection to capital punishment. We have many enemies- they are at the top, but I’d include the gullible, the scammed, the feeble who were brainwashed due to ignorance, fear, and it’s bionic child- hatred.

        1. OK, please provide the names and number of people Trump killed. Whenever you are ready.

          It’s unhinged stupidity on an epic scale from lying brainless leftists like auraMORON that are the epicenter of division in society…

        2. By denying that COVID-19 was a life threatening virus for many people, approximately 800,000 Americans died on Trump’s watch. There is nothing you can twist to negate that fact.

          It is largely due to the staffers at pharma companies, the CDC , FDA, and other health organizations that vaccines were brought to market as quickly as possible while Dear Leader pretended no personal health precautions would be necessary for what he called a flu. Then, after claiming the virus wasn’t severe for months, he repeated baseless claims that cheap anti-parasite poisons or bleach would be good home remedies. He even pushed for mass gatherings without health precautions after he himself was given emergency lifesaving healthcare that most Americans could not access. That isn’t leadership, that is blatant lying. Thank goodness local health agencies and hospital systems got through to local governments that public masking and physical separation would slow the spread and prevent hospitals from collapsing until the population was vaccinated. As inconvenient as it was, this saved hospital systems , intensive care units, and everyone who depended on them. Trump did no public service announcements to support what he pretended was a political issue.

          Yes, Trump has blood on his hands. On the bright side, by making masks and vaccines into a political issue, he ensured that educated people would protect themselves and trumptards will continue to leave themselves vulnerable to the next waves of coronavirus mutations. A small measure of justice for so many innocent victims of Trump’s ignorance.

      3. The neurotic phenomenon is unfortunately almost the same in Russia as in America: sick leaders like Putin and Trump manage to pass evidence as fake news, and their lies as truth. This is not only pathetic, but truly dangerous for the whole human race!

    2. I’ll take a narcissistic President, that focuses on the Country’s security and progress (spurns progressive garbage), over a mentally handicapped president, ANY DAY.

      Also, the truth is, JoBi is as narcissistic, but it’s couched and the media does their best to keep relevant illegal and detrimental aspects on the down-low. His narcissism is WAY MORE dangerous.

      1. How’s the weather in Moscow, troll?

        You few dumbasses here carrying water for the loser of the last election are wasting your time. You think everything happens at the whims of one guy at the top. That is how all loser strongmen wannabes think.

        A real leader doesn’t tell you only he can solve are your problems. He doesn’t tell you he’s the best, the richest, or the most successful. A real leader surrounds himself with an honest team who are empowered to solve problems by working together.

        If you and your boss don’t show any ability to lead your invasion of Ukraine, why should we listen to your incessant lies about Biden? Americans gave Corrupt Donny a shot and he floundered badly. Go ahead and claim that it was all the pandemic, the USA had unilaterally screwed up international trade long before that. It will take years before the arbitrary trade wars get worked out.

        One more little factoid, Putin puppets:

        Herr Donald was born in 1946. If the GOP can’t find a younger candidate, he would be a font of energy at 78 taking his golf cart from rally to rally.

        Why do you keep coming here telling everyone that America can’t find a better candidate?

        I nominate Duane Johnson. Too ethnic for your liking, trumptards?

  2. Mean tweets offend you?

    Dead Americans offend me.
    40-year record inflation offends me.
    Critical Race Theory offends me.
    Men claiming to be “women” destroying women’s sports and hurting women offends me.
    A wide-open U.S. border (drugs, disease, crime) offends me.
    Destroyed American energy independence offends me.
    Vaccine mandates and Democrat economy-destroying lockdowns offend me.
    Record crime and homicides in American cities offend me.
    FBI corruption, to the point of investigating parents, offends me.

    See you at the 2022 midterms. Enough states have now fixed their broken voting procedures to mitigate Democrat ballot box stuffing this time around.

      1. Every woman forced to compete against Thomas should have stayed on the block at every meet. But now the season is over, the NCAA championships are over, and Thomas will graduate having competed for an entire season without protest.

        The precedent is set.

        The NCAA and the colleges would not listen to reason. So instead of watching their sport die a slow death, the female competitors should have shut it down. Who cares about facing sanctions or ridicule? This was their moment to save not only their sport for female competitors only, but all of women’s sports, and they failed.

        If the athletes themselves didn’t care enough to put themselves on the line to stop this farce, why should we care? If fear of being called a “transphobe” made the girls jump in the water and undress in front of a dude with a penis then I’m glad they lost. They don’t deserve the title “winner” with such a lack of courage.

        The women on Penn’s swim team are unfortunately the ones responsible for not doing the right thing. They didn’t ask to be the ones in the spotlight, but history doesn’t call the prepared or the fittest all the time to rise to the occasion. Most of the time, it’s the unprepared and the least equipped who find themselves at a crossroads where one way leads to easy acceptance and the other to dangerous glory.
        Imagine what would have happened in the living rooms of America if Lia Thomas dove into the water and no one else followed. Imagine the TIME magazine cover of women standing in unison out of the water in protest against the male takeover of their sport. Now, that would have been worth seeing. It would never have been forgotten, much like when Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in protest of racial inequality at the 1968 Olympics. History was waiting to be made here. and those in the position to make it chose not to.

        Another swim meet must not happen where women willingly swim against a man.

        When injustice is happening, it is not brave to go on suffering in silence. It’s not praiseworthy to speak anonymously to reporters, terrified that your identity will be leaked. It’s not courageous to have Mommy and Daddy write a letter on your behalf and let them take the heat. If you want to save your sport, then quit screwing around and organize a real protest. Be women protecting women.

        When this happens again with another male swimmer encroaching on the women’s team, the answer is to resist as one united front. Let’s hope the next group of female swimmers come equipped for the battle.

        https://archive.ph/iH2yX

    1. This is the pick of “Joe Biden” (puppet of a leftist cabal of fuckups) for U.S. assistant secretary of “health.”

      A mentally ill man pumped full of cancer-causing opposite sex hormones who “dresses like a western cultural stereotype of a woman.”

      The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The Year Is Rachel Levine

      The Babylon Bee has selected Rachel Levine as its first annual Man of the Year.

      Levine is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman. He is also an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. What a boss!

      Rachel’s original name is Richard Levine, but he changed it to Rachel for some strange reason a few years ago. Who cares? Who says a dude as accomplished as this can’t be named “Rachel?” This king doesn’t care what people think about him! He often wears a dress, which some people think is weird—but he doesn’t care one bit. Come on! Men in India wear dress-type garments, don’t they?
      Rachel’s message is to “be true to yourself,” and we couldn’t agree more. This man is breaking barriers and showing us all the true meaning of courage.

      We applaud this precious and perfectly made child of God for all his accomplishments and hope he stays true to who God made him to be.

      UPDATE: Since announcing this award, we’ve been told that Levine actually identifies as a woman. We have still chosen to give the award as his self-identification has no bearing on the truth. Congratulations, Rachel Levine!

      1. Look at all the libturd downvotes that think that a severely mentally ill, obese person should be in charge of health.

        This kind of stupidity get a dementia patient installed in the White House.

    2. You seriously need to stop polluting your water with so much phosphorus. The red algae bloom kills the fish. Not that a russkie troll would care about healthy bodies of water.

      1. Why don’t you propose pragmatic reforms and work on them now instead of spreading fud and lies for the loser of the last election?

        Of course it would help if you stood for something rather than just hating everything that has changed since you attended primary school.

      1. Wait, aren’t you from The People’s Republic of Australia? You know, where men, women, and children do whatever they’re told whether it’s right or wrong, good or bad, meaningful or meaningless.

        Go follow your draconian restrictions like a good little mindless Aussie prole. America could take over your entire country in about 15 minutes (if it even took that long), as you spineless sheep currently cower in fear of a bad flu turned bad cold or, most likely, not even that.

        You have no arms with which to defend yourselves. You are weak. Your government is dictatorial and, yet, you all follow like the sheep you are. How can you be a “Road Warrior” when your retard PM won’t even let you venture out of your hovel lest you get the sniffles from the rapidly self-neutering China virus?

        You should spend less time railing against other countries and try to fix your shithole disaster of a country.

        Granted, now, you are the product of the world’s refuse, so you are limited in what you can achieve. You’re so stupid as to have allowed yourselves to be disarmed, so good luck with your authoritarian “leaders” and their illogical, unscientific whims.

        I don’t blame you though, you’re a country built on the bad genetics of a penal colony. In your case, I wouldn’t rule out significant inbreeding, either. Was your grandfather the convicted murder, your grandmother, or both? All four?

        America was built on the bravery of freedom fighters. You are merely the the watered down remnants of defective colonizers.

        Anytime you’d like to criticize America, the beacon of the world, even with a current president whose lights are out, real Americans will be here to remind you that you do so because of an obvious and clearly massive inferiority complex.

        1. Okay, now that’s a fscking takedown!

          As someone who’s beyond sick and tired of Road Warrior’s never-ending infantile “America bad” screeds, I say to you, sir: BRAVO!

        2. You asked a couple of very pertinent questions that I’m happy to answer once again. While, I’m not from anustralia, I certainly endorse and applaud your description of the place. I’ll even add that the only thing I’ve found of any value from there on the international scale is that they make Apple’s home country look good.

          It’s obvious that your “aim for bit laden hit saddam insane” guidance system works as usual, that was some take down. Whatever it hit will never be a threat to society again.

          If you look up the definition of “road warrior” it refers to a person who travels frequently, especially on business. That’s where the moniker comes from.

          Right now the beacon of the world is Zelensky, (unless you are one of those souper pooper powers). He’s a beacon of courage. Your country does itself well to support it, regardless of which fruit or vegetable you have at your whorehouse. I heard there was quite the orgy there on January 69.

        3. My mistake. Mel Gibson you’re not.

          So, what is your home country?

          Please say it’s Canada.

          If so:

          Wait, aren’t you from The People’s Republic of Canada? You know, where men, women, and children do whatever they’re told whether it’s right or wrong, good or bad, meaningful or meaningless.

          Go follow your draconian restrictions like a good little mindless Canuck prole. America could take over your entire country in about 15 minutes (if it even took that long), as you spineless sheep currently cower in fear of a bad flu turned bad cold or, most likely, not even that.

          You have no arms with which to defend yourselves. You are weak. Your government is dictatorial and, yet, you all follow like the sheep you are. How can you be a “Road Warrior” when your retard PM won’t even let you venture out of your hovel lest you get the sniffles from the rapidly self-neutering China virus?

          You should spend less time railing against other countries and try to fix your shithole disaster of a country.

          Granted, now, you are the product of the French and British colonists, so you are limited in what you can achieve. You’re so stupid as to have allowed yourselves to be disarmed, so good luck with your authoritarian “leaders” and their illogical, unscientific whims.

          I don’t blame you though, you’re a country known as “America’s hat.” In your case, I wouldn’t rule out significant inbreeding, either. Was your grandfather the mink trapper, your grandmother, or both? All four?

          America was built on the bravery of freedom fighters. You are merely the the watered down remnants of French and British colonizers. You can’t even agree on a common language.

          Anytime you’d like to criticize America, the beacon of the world, even with a current president whose lights are out, real Americans will be here to remind you that you do so because of an obvious and clearly massive inferiority complex.

        4. Oh definitely your mistake. I see that you take no effort to improve yourself and whoosh there goes another salvo with the “aim for been laughing hit sadman hussein” and there goes kkkanada. Wait a minute isn’t that one of your fifty one states? Oh well keep going, there are over 190 shit hole nations to insult out there, probably way more than you can count up to. Hey, maybe I’m from the Ukraine. Why don’t you take a good huge massive dump on that country. I’m sure the resulting broccoli, caviar fecal sauced that results will be absolutely nuclear.

          I’d rather have a massive inferiority complex than be a citizen of one of those terrorists souper pooper nations.

    1. A lot his no better, in fact, worse. Think what that says about the fact that they gravitate here. I came by to peek at some Mac news, felt like I stumbled into a KKK/Nazi Party mixer. Shame on you all.

  3. Majority party wisely collaborates with former administration staffers to ensure USA has consistent and well informed policies for semiconductor manufacturing. Plus one for current administration.

    Usual trumptard trolls jump in with nonsensical bs to show they have no ability to collaborate for any purpose.

    How would a country be great again if the governing party figurehead refused to work with knowledgeable people based on rabid leader-demanded loyalty tests? It didn’t work. Democracy cannot work with an authoritarian wannabe who refuses to listen to anyone on any subject. That is why feckless “I have the best words” Donny was dismissed, and why his pathetic troll army needs to get a new job. True conservatives would not wed themselves to such a glaringly stupid buffoon.

  4. Why is Biden blamed??? Biden’s stupidity is not the problem. He’s just a hapless dementia patient. The real problem is the stupidity of the voters who voted for a hapless dementia patient

    1. Reagan actually had dementia, Shrub couldn’t find Iran on a map without help, and NY Crime Boss could not get up to tweet before 10am, just enough time for the septuagenarian to eat hamberders and get carted off to his afternoon golf tee time.

      Do tell us about how proud you are of your top class acts, “Sarah”.

      1. Tell us how Reagan destroyed the economy and created a war, you fucking idiot.

        With all the candidates, you chose a lying, racist, corrupt dementia patient a whore. You literally pick the worst two candidates. You stupid fuckturds

        1. If you are too stupid to see that today’s democrats are the dumbest and most corrupt in history, install by the stupidest generation of idiots voters, you are too fucking stupid to have it explained to you

  5. I hesitate to dip a toe in the toxic sludge here, but someone might find it useful to, you know, actually talk about the subject.

    H.R. McMaster, former Army lieutenant general, is no Trump stooge. Yes, he was a national security advisor for the former administration 2017-2018 but like many former administration officials, parted on not-so-happy terms. Apparently there were significant differences with regard to how to exercise foreign policy with non-democratic regimes. McMaster is now at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

    McMaster urged Congress on Monday to pass the Bipartisan Innovation Act, which would invest in domestic semiconductor manufacturing to alleviate reliance on Asian suppliers. The USA currently produces about 12% of the world’s electronics chips. “Stop compromising important national security interests to score partisan political points,” he said. “If there is one area of bipartisan agreement, it’s on the threat from China’s communist party. There is a heck of a lot more continuity than change in the Trump and Biden administrations there.”

    It would be nice if MDN and its posters would heed McMaster’s wise words. The extreme partisanship is crippling the USA, and if it doesn’t stop, then everyone loses. There are no winners in a political race to the bottom.

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