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標題 [新聞] Congressional Republicans 'don’t see
時間 Fri Mar  7 00:41:16 2025

原文標題：
Congressional Republicans 'don’t see a huge appetite' for Trump's push to
repeal the CHIPS Act

機翻：
國會共和黨人「看不到太大興趣」支持川普推動廢除《晶片法案》

原文連結：
https://tinyurl.com/dw64ds5k

發布時間：
March 6, 2025, 7:33 AM GMT+8

記者署名：
Allan Smith, Frank Thorp V and Sahil Kapur

原文內容：

Three aides to Senate Republicans made clear the party has neither the stomach
 nor the time to engage in a repeal of the bipartisan legislation at this time

WASHINGTON — In the closing weeks of last year’s presidential campaign,
House Speaker Mike Johnson quickly walked back remarks he made while standing
alongside a vulnerable Republican member in New York.

Johnson had pledged to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act if Donald Trump became
 president — a position he quickly realized was not popular in battleground
districts and could hurt his members’ re-election bids.

“The CHIPS Act is not on the agenda for repeal,” Johnson, R-La., said in a
statement that soon followed his October comments.

Fast-forward to Tuesday, and Trump, now president, made a request of Johnson
on camera during a nationally televised speech before a joint session of
Congress: Repeal the CHIPS Act.

“Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing,” Trump said, weaving at
Democrats after noting a Taiwanese semiconductor company’s recently announced
 an investment in the U.S. “We give hundreds of billions of dollars, and it
doesn’t mean a thing.”

“All that was important to them was they didn’t want to pay the tariffs,”
Trump continued, before addressing Johnson directly. “You should get rid of
the CHIPS Act. And whatever is left over, Mr. Speaker, you should use it to
reduce debt. Or any other reason you want to.”

While Johnson proceeded to stand and clap following Trump’s suggestion, the
reception on Wednesday from other Republicans was far icier. Though
Republicans were aware of Trump’s opposition to the legislation, senior
lawmakers weren’t given a heads up that Trump would make those demands during
 his joint address, and they have no plans to take up a repeal of the law
anytime soon.

“We have too many other items to deal with that are higher on the list,” one
 top Republican leadership aide said. “I highly doubt this will be addressed
in any upcoming package.”

“I don’t see a huge appetite for that,” echoed a senior Senate Republican
aide.

The legislation passed Congress with bipartisan support and was signed into
law by President Joe Biden in 2022. It allocated $280 billion in new funding
to boost the domestic production of semiconductors and chips, and to bolster
research and development. Funding has been awarded to projects in roughly two
dozen states, according to the Commerce Department’s National Institute of
Standards and Technology.

“I’m not sure exactly what he was getting at there,” Senate Majority Leader
 John Thune, R-S.D., said. “There are some questions around what that
statement meant, but there certainly are ways we ought to be able to take all
these restrictions off how the money is being spent. He’s right about that,
there’s no question about that.”

Trump, as well as some conservatives, have criticized the legislation as
offering subsidies for wealthy companies, with the president suggesting that
tariffs would be far more effective in getting semiconductor companies to open
 up shop in the U.S.

Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Johnson said there is “work we need to
do to address the CHIPS Act,” voicing concerns with the Biden administration
’s implementation of the law.

He added that Republicans will “wait on” Trump’s upcoming budget proposal
to “see how he handles” the CHIPS Act before making any decisions.

“There’s a lot of talk and discussion about it,” Johnson said.

Yet Republican senators who supported the legislation were caught by surprise
by Trump’s remarks during his Tuesday address.

Sen Todd Young, R-Ind., said Wednesday that they conflicted with assurances he
 was given by Trump’s Cabinet nominees in an effort to secure his vote for
their confirmation.

“I have to admit, I was surprised,” Young, the lead Republican on the
legislation, told reporters. “His comments seemed in tension with the
reassurances I had received privately and publicly from his now-Cabinet [
members], reassurances which I sought in order to be supportive of certain
nominees.”

Young said he’s reached out to the White House after the address.

“We’re working with them, seeking clarity,” he added. “I remain hopeful
and frankly my expectation remains that we will be actively working on them to
 improve the program, and that’s how I’m looking to the future.”

Seventeen Senate Republicans voted to support the legislation in 2022, though
some of those members are no longer senators. In the House, just one GOP
congressman voted in support — the now-deceased former Rep. Don Young, R-
Alaska.

The legislation has been largely considered a successful effort to jump-start
chip manufacturing in the country.

“I don’t think that’s likely to happen,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said
Wednesday when asked if he would support a repeal of the legislation, which he
 backed in 2022. “The origins of that program started back in his
administration, and I think what they produced is huge investments made in the
 United States at TSMC, Samsung, and Micron and other companies, and it’s
made it possible now for the president to announce this additional huge
investment by TSMC for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a fellow supporter of the legislation, said he
would be curious to see what Trump has in mind.

“I’d like to see what he’s going to replace it with,” he said. “Generally
 speaking, I want to bring chip manufacturing here, but if he’s got a
different way to do it, I’m open-minded.”

A second senior GOP Senate aide said Republicans were unlikely to even be able
 to repeal the CHIPS Act in the coming weeks, given pressing needs around
spending and reconciliation bills.

“I just don’t think there’s going to be time with what we need to do on the
 floor,” this person said. “CHIPS will be complicated to actually unpack too
 because it has financial hooks already in the states.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a lead author of the legislation
, said in a statement Wednesday that the legislation was supported by members
of both parties “because we need it to strengthen our national security, stay
 ahead of China, bolster our supply chains, and bring manufacturing back home
from overseas.”

“People are already feeling the positive impacts and new economic energy in
their towns in every corner of America, from Ohio to Arizona,” Schumer said.
“I do not think the president will find much support in Congress for
undermining these CHIPS investments and the massive amount of jobs they are
creating.”

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., said the CHIPS Act was predicated on lessons
learned during the first Trump administration “that when we didn’t have our
supply chains here, there were enormous disruptions in things for which there
was a global demand and that we didn’t make here, and it jeopardized our
national security as well as our health.”

“This is something that was sound policy, that helped us economically, and we
 should stand behind it,” Baldwin said.

The law was passed under the 60-vote threshold, meaning it’ll require 60
Senate votes to repeal. Republicans hold 53 seats.

“We are seeing this administration with great regularity flout the Congress.
… We could see some of that in this dimension, too,” Baldwin said. “I’m
not suggesting we will. I’m just saying, we’ve already seen that in other
arenas.”

Johnson’s backtracking last fall came as he was in the district of a member
who was seeing benefits from the legislation, then-Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.
Y., highlighting the potential political backlash for seeking to undo the
legislation.

After Johnson said Republicans were likely to repeal the CHIPS Act, Williams
stood next to him and vowed to “remind” Johnson “night and day” about the
importance of the law.

“If that’s an important thing for your district, you need this guy there to
make that case,” Johnson replied.

Soon after their public comments wrapped, Johnson released a statement saying
the legislation may not be on the chopping block but that “there could be
legislation to further streamline and improve the primary purpose of the bill
— to eliminate its costly regulations and Green New Deal requirements.”

Williams said in a statement that he spoke privately with Johnson after the
event and that the speaker “apologized profusely, saying he misheard the
question.”

Williams ultimately lost his House race. In January, Trump nominated him to be
 the Energy Department’s undersecretary for nuclear security.

機翻：

三名參議院共和黨助手指明，該黨目前既無意願也無時間參與廢除這項兩黨支持的立法。

華盛頓 — 在去年總統競選的最後幾週，眾議院議長麥克· 強生（Mike Johnson）在紐約
與一位處境脆弱的共和黨議員站在一起時，迅速收回了他所發表的言論。


強生曾承諾，如果唐納德· 川普（Donald Trump）當選總統，他將廢除《晶片與科學法案
》（CHIPS and Science Act），但他很快意識到這一立場在關鍵選區並不受歡迎，且可
能損害其黨內成員的連任機會。


「《晶片法案》不在廢除議程上，」路易斯安那州共和黨人強生在隨後針對他十月言論發
表的聲明中表示。


時間快進到週二，現已成為總統的川普在國會聯席會議前的全國電視演說中，當眾對強生
提出要求：廢除《晶片法案》。

「你的《晶片法案》是一件可怕、可怕的事情，」川普在提到一家台灣半導體公司最近宣
布在美國投資後，對著民主黨人說道。「我們給了數千億美元，但這一點意義都沒有。」

「對他們來說重要的是，他們不想支付關稅，」川普繼續說道，隨後直接對強生說：「你
應該廢除《晶片法案》。剩下的任何資金，議長先生，你應該用來減少債務，或者任何你
想用的其他理由。」


雖然強生在川普提出建議後起身鼓掌，但週三其他共和黨人的反應則冷淡得多。儘管共和
黨人知道川普反對這項立法，但資深議員們並未提前得知川普會在聯席會議演說中提出這
些要求，且他們目前沒有計劃立即廢除該法律。


「我們有太多其他更優先的事項要處理，」一位共和黨領導層高級助理表示。「我非常懷
疑這會在即將推出的任何方案中被處理。」

「我看不到對此有太大的興趣，」一位參議院共和黨高級助理也附和道。

該法案於2022年在國會獲得兩黨支持，並由喬· 拜登（Joe Biden）總統簽署成為法律。
它為提升國內半導體和晶片生產以及加強研發分配了2800億美元的新資金。根據商務部國
家標準與技術研究所的數據，資金已分配給大約二十多個州的項目。


「我不確定他到底想表達什麼，」參議院多數黨領袖約翰· 圖恩（John Thune，南達科他
州共和黨人）說道。「對於那番言論的含義有些疑問，但我們確實應該有方法解除對資金
使用的一切限制。他說得沒錯，這一點毫無疑問。」


川普以及一些保守派人士批評該立法為富裕公司提供了補貼，總統認為關稅將遠比這更有
效地促使半導體公司在美國設廠。

週三，強生在與記者交談時表示，「我們需要做些工作來處理《晶片法案》，」他對拜登
政府執行該法律的方式表達了擔憂。

他補充說，共和黨人將「等待」川普即將推出的預算提案，以「看看他是如何處理」《晶
片法案》的，然後再做任何決定。

「關於這件事有很多討論和談話，」強生說。

然而，支持該立法的共和黨參議員對川普在週二演說中的言論感到意外。

印第安那州共和黨參議員托德· 楊（Todd Young）週三表示，這些言論與他從川普內閣提
名人那裡得到的保證相衝突，這些保證是他為了支持某些提名人的確認而尋求的。

「我必須承認，我很驚訝，」作為該法案主要共和黨人的楊對記者說。「他的評論似乎與
我從他現在的內閣成員那裡私下和公開得到的保證存在矛盾，這些保證是我為了支持某些
提名人而尋求的。」


楊表示，他在演說後已聯繫了白宮。

「我們正在與他們合作，尋求澄清，」他補充說。「我仍然抱有希望，坦白說，我的期望
依然是我們將積極與他們合作改善這個項目，這是我對未來的展望。」

2022年，有十七名共和黨參議員投票支持該立法，儘管其中一些成員現已不再是參議員。
在眾議院，只有一名共和黨眾議員投了贊成票——已故的前阿拉斯加州眾議員唐· 楊（
Don Young）。

該立法在很大程度上被認為是成功啟動國內晶片製造的一項努力。

「我不認為這會發生，」德克薩斯州共和黨參議員約翰· 科寧（John Cornyn）週三在被
問及是否支持廢除他於2022年支持的這項立法時表示。「該計劃的起源可以追溯到他的政
府時期，我認為他們所取得的成果是美國獲得了台積電、三星、美光等公司的大量投資，
這使得總統現在能夠宣布台積電對先進半導體製造的額外巨額投資成為可能。」


南卡羅來納州共和黨參議員林賽· 格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham），同樣是該立法的支持者
，表示他很好奇川普有什麼想法。

「我想看看他打算用什麼來替代它，」他說。「總的來說，我想把晶片製造帶到這裡，但
如果他有不同的方法，我持開放態度。」

第二位共和黨參議院高級助理表示，鑑於支出和預算調節法案的迫切需求，共和黨人不太
可能在未來幾週內廢除《晶片法案》。

「我只是覺得我們在議場上要做的事情太多，時間不夠，」這位人士說。「《晶片法案》
也很複雜，因為它已經在各州有了財務鉤子。」

參議院少數黨領袖查克· 舒默（Chuck Schumer，紐約州民主黨人），該立法的主要起草
人之一，週三在一份聲明中表示，這項立法得到兩黨成員的支持，「因為我們需要它來加
強國家安全，保持對中國的領先地位，強化我們的供應鏈，並將製造業從海外帶回國內。
」


「從俄亥俄州到亞利桑那州，美國每個角落的人們已經感受到積極影響和新經濟活力，」
舒默說。「我不認為總統會在國會中找到太多支持來削弱這些《晶片法案》的投資以及它
們創造的大量就業機會。」


威斯康辛州民主黨參議員塔米· 鮑德溫（Tammy Baldwin）表示，《晶片法案》是基於第
一屆川普政府期間學到的教訓，「當時我們的供應鏈不在這裡，全球需求的東西出現了巨
大中斷，而我們這裡不生產，這危及了我們的國家安全和健康。」


「這是一項合理的政策，對我們的經濟有幫助，我們應該支持它，」鮑德溫說。

該法律是以60票門檻通過的，這意味著廢除它需要參議院60票。共和黨人目前持有53個席
位。

「我們看到這個政府經常藐視國會……我們也可能在這方面看到一些類似情況，」鮑德溫
說。「我不是說一定會，我只是說，我們在其他領域已經看到過這種情況。」

去年秋天，強生的立場轉變發生在他訪問一位正從該立法中受益的議員選區時，當時的紐
約州共和黨眾議員布蘭登· 威廉姆斯（Brandon Williams），這凸顯了試圖取消該立法的
潛在政治反彈。


在強生表示共和黨人可能會廢除《晶片法案》後，威廉姆斯站在他身邊，誓言要「日夜提
醒」強生該法律的重要性。

「如果這對你的選區來說很重要，你需要這個人在那裡提出這個理由，」強生回應道。

在他們的公開評論結束後不久，強生發表聲明稱，該立法可能不會被廢除，但「可能會有
立法進一步簡化和改進該法案的主要目的——消除其昂貴的規定和綠色新政要求。」

威廉姆斯在一份聲明中表示，他在活動後私下與強生交談，議長「非常道歉，說他聽錯了
問題。」

威廉姆斯最終輸掉了他的眾議院選舉。今年一月，川普提名他擔任能源部核安全副部長。

心得/評論：


雖然川普在國會演講時公開要求廢掉《晶片法案》，
但是廢除的門檻高於目前共和黨所能掌握的票數，
所以共和黨議員對廢除法案顯得缺乏興趣。

希望川普就此去忙其他的事務，不要關注台積電了，
那1000億美金就給他慢慢拖下去。

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