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Speaker 1: Well, the U. S. Senate has passed legislation that includes

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Speaker 1: fifty two billion dollars in grants and incentives for domestic

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Speaker 1: semiconductor manufacturing, and the bill is expected to pass the

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Speaker 1: House later this week. It will then move on to

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Speaker 1: President Biden's desk for his signature. Joining us now to

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Speaker 1: discuss this long path to getting it signed. As Eric Watson,

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Speaker 1: who's Bloomberg congressional reporter, Well, I think first let's look

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Speaker 1: at doesn't make a difference. One semiconductor firm alone, t

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Speaker 1: SMC is spending a hundred billion dollars over three years.

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Speaker 1: This is fifty two billions spread out over five and

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Speaker 1: it includes some money for things like five G wireless technology. Eric,

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Speaker 1: is is it really big enough to move the dial

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Speaker 1: for a whole nation's uh? Industry? Well, certainly the the

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Speaker 1: supporters of the bailing in Congress as well as the industry,

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Speaker 1: I do say so. And it's got widespread praise everyone

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Speaker 1: from the Business Roundtable too, industry groups saying this was

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Speaker 1: really necessary. Uh. You know, I talked to Mark Kelly

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Speaker 1: Arizona was involved in that investment you just mentioned out

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Speaker 1: there in Arizona, and he said this was they probably

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Speaker 1: weren't going to pull back on their investment, but they

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Speaker 1: definitely wouldn't expand it. And he thinks it's going to

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Speaker 1: make a difference attendance, housands of jobs in his state.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, uh talk about the added you know,

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Speaker 1: city two billions for the coming up the industry, but

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Speaker 1: there are you know, everything else, the wireless that the

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Speaker 1: three thousand dollars for science agencies. You know, ultimately it's

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Speaker 1: about thirty nine billion dollars when you include a tax

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Speaker 1: cred as well. Uh, you know, there's additional money that's

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Speaker 1: been authorized but not appropriated. It's coming to you under

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Speaker 1: an eighty billion dollars totals. It does seem like Wall

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Speaker 1: Street liked it. We saw Intel shares up by about

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Speaker 1: three percent. What are we hearing from some of the

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Speaker 1: big giants that were concerned that delays to this bill

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Speaker 1: really thriatened plans for expanding manufacturing domestically. Well, you know, again,

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Speaker 1: I think that they're just very relieved. Now there's a

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Speaker 1: last minute wrinkle going on here because, as you also mentioned,

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Speaker 1: Joe Mansion has changed his tune on the Climate Energy Package.

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Speaker 1: And then now we we're learning the House Republicans are

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Speaker 1: gonna try to bring down this bill tomorrow. I talked

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Speaker 1: to House Democrats, some of the progressives who are worried

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Speaker 1: about what they call corporate welfare, and I think that

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Speaker 1: in the end of the day they're going to rally

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Speaker 1: and pass this bill. But it's not quite a done deal.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Republicans were mostly going to be on

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Speaker 1: board with this in the House, uh, you know, with

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Speaker 1: some exceptions, but because they're trying to retali ns Democrats

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Speaker 1: from moving forward on tax increases and climate change, it

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Speaker 1: could be actually an interesting vote tomorrow. Yeah, it's really

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Speaker 1: interesting when you because if you look at it, you

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Speaker 1: can find attractors that would say it's it's selective corporate welfare,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you're picking winners. So the free market

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Speaker 1: uh politicians probably don't like it. And and it hasn't

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Speaker 1: been much pushback on why not other industries? What about mine? Well,

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Speaker 1: certainly there's the Republicans and others want to see a

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Speaker 1: larger permanent R and D tax credit that would be broader.

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Speaker 1: They're still talk of bringing that in potentially in a

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Speaker 1: your end D allow That will depend on the election,

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Speaker 1: but there will be a tax extender's package talked about

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Speaker 1: in December, we may ce r and d uh you

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Speaker 1: know revived there, you know, but certainly I think when

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Speaker 1: we see that, you know, the shortage is going on

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Speaker 1: from Detroit and other major renistchors who can't get some

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Speaker 1: in conductors right now, and the effect they've had on

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Speaker 1: prices for consumers. Uh, you know, this is just the

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Speaker 1: opportune time for for the chief industry to get this

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Speaker 1: this helping hand, uh and get it through Congress. You

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Speaker 1: talked about some of the opposition. I mean, a pretty

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Speaker 1: strong tweet that we're quoting from Jim Banks on Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: as well just took us through. I guess how these

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Speaker 1: kind of messages that this money is going towards China

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Speaker 1: President Barden's approval. Well, I mean, there are restrictions in

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Speaker 1: the bill actually that we're built in and on the

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Speaker 1: assistance of of of progressives actually that restrict any company

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Speaker 1: do stock buy back. So I think, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're referring to, but there are guard

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Speaker 1: as far as when it helps UH buying approval rating,

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Speaker 1: I think members of connerss are pretty honest about you know,

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Speaker 1: even if Biden's whole agenda was passed, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, it's inflation and gas prices that are

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Speaker 1: really driving the approval rating, and we're not going to

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Speaker 1: see a lot of near term movement on those from

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Speaker 1: companies will have to go through some sort of complicated

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Speaker 1: lot that's gonna be developed by the Converse Department and

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Speaker 1: following up on Bloomberg as as industry looks to make

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Speaker 1: sure that the seamless as possible. All Right, I'll just

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Speaker 1: reiterate what I was saying. Sorry, I thought, apologies for

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Speaker 1: not clarifying that it was representative Jim Banks of Indiana,

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Speaker 1: the chairman of the Republican Study Committee. He tweeted the

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Speaker 1: DEM's fake China bill allows your tax dollars to go

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Speaker 1: to communist China. Brian talked earlier about some of the

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Speaker 1: external companies, the likes of t SMC. We heard from

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Speaker 1: Samsung today as well in terms of how much they're developing.

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Speaker 1: Just tell us about the U S share of semiconductor

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Speaker 1: manufacturing and where we stand globally there well, certainly on

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Speaker 1: the advance I was talking, you know, some of the

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Speaker 1: advanced chips are talking to subsentators that we just don't

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Speaker 1: make them at all. The chips are going to the

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Speaker 1: real concern, especially from the Defense Department and others, that

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Speaker 1: we have zero really ability to make these advanced chips,

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Speaker 1: and it's doing a national security threat, especially if you

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Speaker 1: look at Taiwan, which is a leader in manufacturing these

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Speaker 1: and is under threat by China. Uh, you know, donder

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure that certainly opens up a national

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Speaker 1: security threat. So I think, you know, the main pitch

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Speaker 1: main target. I think maybe finally, uh in our chat today,

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Speaker 1: Mark Warner, uh, you know, one of the big proponents

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Speaker 1: you know, then there were moves by Germany, you know,

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Speaker 1: been telegraphed, it was very necessary to follow so to

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Speaker 1: to the EO. Okay, Eric, many thanks will push for

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Speaker 1: a raise nine o'clock at night, and you're doing this

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Speaker 1: for us. We really appreciate it. Big big hug from

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Speaker 1: Juliette and me. And we've been chatting here with Eric Wasawson,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Congressional reporter