原文标题：
Congressional Republicans 'don’t see a huge appetite' for Trump's push to
repeal the CHIPS Act
机翻：
国会共和党人“看不到太大兴趣”支持川普推动废除《芯片法案》
原文连结：
https://tinyurl.com/dw64ds5k
发布时间：
March 6, 2025, 7:33 AM GMT+8
记者署名：
Allan Smith, Frank Thorp V and Sahil Kapur
原文内容：
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.
机翻：
三名参议院共和党助手指明，该党目前既无意愿也无时间参与废除这项两党支持的立法。
华盛顿 — 在去年总统竞选的最后几周，众议院议长麦克·强生（Mike Johnson）在纽约
与一位处境脆弱的共和党议员站在一起时，迅速收回了他所发表的言论。
强生曾承诺，如果唐纳德·川普（Donald Trump）当选总统，他将废除《芯片与科学法案
》（CHIPS and Science Act），但他很快意识到这一立场在关键选区并不受欢迎，且可
能损害其党内成员的连任机会。
“《芯片法案》不在废除议程上，”路易斯安那州共和党人强生在随后针对他十月言论发
表的声明中表示。
时间快进到周二，现已成为总统的川普在国会联席会议前的全国电视演说中，当众对强生
提出要求：废除《芯片法案》。
“你的《芯片法案》是一件可怕、可怕的事情，”川普在提到一家台湾半导体公司最近宣
布在美国投资后，对着民主党人说道。“我们给了数千亿美元，但这一点意义都没有。”
“对他们来说重要的是，他们不想支付关税，”川普继续说道，随后直接对强生说：“你
应该废除《芯片法案》。剩下的任何资金，议长先生，你应该用来减少债务，或者任何你
想用的其他理由。”
虽然强生在川普提出建议后起身鼓掌，但周三其他共和党人的反应则冷淡得多。尽管共和
党人知道川普反对这项立法，但资深议员们并未提前得知川普会在联席会议演说中提出这
些要求，且他们目前没有计划立即废除该法律。
“我们有太多其他更优先的事项要处理，”一位共和党领导层高级助理表示。“我非常怀
疑这会在即将推出的任何方案中被处理。”
“我看不到对此有太大的兴趣，”一位参议院共和党高级助理也附和道。
该法案于2022年在国会获得两党支持，并由乔·拜登（Joe Biden）总统签署成为法律。
它为提升国内半导体和芯片生产以及加强研发分配了2800亿美元的新资金。根据商务部国
家标准与技术研究所的数据，资金已分配给大约二十多个州的项目。
“我不确定他到底想表达什么，”参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune，南达科他
州共和党人）说道。“对于那番言论的含义有些疑问，但我们确实应该有方法解除对资金
使用的一切限制。他说得没错，这一点毫无疑问。”
川普以及一些保守派人士批评该立法为富裕公司提供了补贴，总统认为关税将远比这更有
效地促使半导体公司在美国设厂。
周三，强生在与记者交谈时表示，“我们需要做些工作来处理《芯片法案》，”他对拜登
政府执行该法律的方式表达了担忧。
他补充说，共和党人将“等待”川普即将推出的预算提案，以“看看他是如何处理”《晶
片法案》的，然后再做任何决定。
“关于这件事有很多讨论和谈话，”强生说。
然而，支持该立法的共和党参议员对川普在周二演说中的言论感到意外。
印第安那州共和党参议员托德·杨（Todd Young）周三表示，这些言论与他从川普内阁提
名人那里得到的保证相冲突，这些保证是他为了支持某些提名人的确认而寻求的。
“我必须承认，我很惊讶，”作为该法案主要共和党人的杨对记者说。“他的评论似乎与
我从他现在的内阁成员那里私下和公开得到的保证存在矛盾，这些保证是我为了支持某些
提名人而寻求的。”
杨表示，他在演说后已联系了白宫。
“我们正在与他们合作，寻求澄清，”他补充说。“我仍然抱有希望，坦白说，我的期望
依然是我们将积极与他们合作改善这个项目，这是我对未来的展望。”
2022年，有十七名共和党参议员投票支持该立法，尽管其中一些成员现已不再是参议员。
在众议院，只有一名共和党众议员投了赞成票——已故的前阿拉斯加州众议员唐·杨（
Don Young）。
该立法在很大程度上被认为是成功启动国内芯片制造的一项努力。
“我不认为这会发生，”德克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁（John Cornyn）周三在被
问及是否支持废除他于2022年支持的这项立法时表示。“该计划的起源可以追溯到他的政
府时期，我认为他们所取得的成果是美国获得了台积电、三星、美光等公司的大量投资，
这使得总统现在能够宣布台积电对先进半导体制造的额外巨额投资成为可能。”
南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham），同样是该立法的支持者
，表示他很好奇川普有什么想法。
“我想看看他打算用什么来替代它，”他说。“总的来说，我想把芯片制造带到这里，但
如果他有不同的方法，我持开放态度。”
第二位共和党参议院高级助理表示，鉴于支出和预算调节法案的迫切需求，共和党人不太
可能在未来几周内废除《芯片法案》。
“我只是觉得我们在议场上要做的事情太多，时间不够，”这位人士说。“《芯片法案》
也很复杂，因为它已经在各州有了财务钩子。”
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer，纽约州民主党人），该立法的主要起草
人之一，周三在一份声明中表示，这项立法得到两党成员的支持，“因为我们需要它来加
强国家安全，保持对中国的领先地位，强化我们的供应链，并将制造业从海外带回国内。
”
“从俄亥俄州到亚利桑那州，美国每个角落的人们已经感受到积极影响和新经济活力，”
舒默说。“我不认为总统会在国会中找到太多支持来削弱这些《芯片法案》的投资以及它
们创造的大量就业机会。”
威斯康辛州民主党参议员塔米·鲍德温（Tammy Baldwin）表示，《芯片法案》是基于第
一届川普政府期间学到的教训，“当时我们的供应链不在这里，全球需求的东西出现了巨
大中断，而我们这里不生产，这危及了我们的国家安全和健康。”
“这是一项合理的政策，对我们的经济有帮助，我们应该支持它，”鲍德温说。
该法律是以60票门槛通过的，这意味着废除它需要参议院60票。共和党人目前持有53个席
位。
“我们看到这个政府经常藐视国会……我们也可能在这方面看到一些类似情况，”鲍德温
说。“我不是说一定会，我只是说，我们在其他领域已经看到过这种情况。”
去年秋天，强生的立场转变发生在他访问一位正从该立法中受益的议员选区时，当时的纽
约州共和党众议员布兰登·威廉姆斯（Brandon Williams），这凸显了试图取消该立法的
潜在政治反弹。
在强生表示共和党人可能会废除《芯片法案》后，威廉姆斯站在他身边，誓言要“日夜提
醒”强生该法律的重要性。
“如果这对你的选区来说很重要，你需要这个人在那里提出这个理由，”强生回应道。
在他们的公开评论结束后不久，强生发表声明称，该立法可能不会被废除，但“可能会有
立法进一步简化和改进该法案的主要目的——消除其昂贵的规定和绿色新政要求。”
威廉姆斯在一份声明中表示，他在活动后私下与强生交谈，议长“非常道歉，说他听错了
问题。”
威廉姆斯最终输掉了他的众议院选举。今年一月，川普提名他担任能源部核安全副部长。
心得/评论：
虽然川普在国会演讲时公开要求废掉《芯片法案》，
但是废除的门槛高于目前共和党所能掌握的票数，
所以共和党议员对废除法案显得缺乏兴趣。
希望川普就此去忙其他的事务，不要关注台积电了，
那1000亿美金就给他慢慢拖下去。