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Trump White House demands that government workers find words like “immigrants” and “diversity” in federal federal contracts with US companies to promote domestic semiconductor manufacturing, and raise concerns among staff. Contracts can be amended or supported.
On Friday night, workers at the Department of Commerce office accused US semiconductor chip factories to monitor and train manpower that they receive dozens of words for search, according to a source familiar with the effort Do Tuesday’s deadline gave them only a handful of days to comply.
The Biden administration’s priority Chips and Science Act approved the Congress with a bilateral majority. But the new administration is examining chips contracts for these buzzer because President Donald Trump has tried to enforce a series of executive orders signing in his first days.
A sample: immigrants, non -documentary, foreign aid, green New Dell, climate change, diversity, equity, racism, discrimination, transgender, LGBT, abortion, pregnancy, control and control and The fetus. All have about 150 150 conditions.
The stake is too high: the government has allocated the National Semicamdor Technology Center more than 5 billion billion to ensure that the United States does not depend on China or any other country that is not dependent on the semiconductor chips, from artificial intelligence to cars. Gives strength to . Of this, 250 million has been allocated to build a workforce training center in Silicon Valley.
Congress Republicans and other conservative critics have complained that the Biden administration has been meeting a lot of diversity and other liberal priorities to qualify for US companies for contracts. The Trump administration may want to amend the agreements to remove these needs.
The possibility that the administration can go further and cancel the contracts increases the possibility that the Trump administration will punish companies for the Biden administration to do. This may mean that facilities cannot be built or the government cannot contract with universities so that the modern research can be done. It can determine US efforts for years.
A source familiar with the program told CNN, “People do not fully appreciate the danger that the administration is just announcing these agreements and will start from the beginning.” “It has the implications of national security, supply chain implications.”
The White House sent CNN questions to the Department of Commerce, which did not respond to a comment.
One of the most sensitive issues is the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company, or a US relationship with TSMC, which currently operates the only working semiconductor plant in the United States. They have only been able to bring and run the skilled workers from Taiwan.
If [the Trump administration] Sources said that a deal that allows them to bring workers – it will be a major problem for any company that is not based in the United States, and especially TSMC.
Another concern for trying to make more chips is the government’s performance of Elon Musk. In the federal government, the federal government demanding the reduction of the federal government programs and the process and access to the system, is almost going home. CNN sources said they were not yet knocking on the door of the Chips office in the Commerce Department, rather than focusing on the national maritime and environmental administration and other areas.
But the biggest challenge of making chips was to persuade private companies to disclose sensitive information about their business before the federal government, with the promise that it would be kept under lock and key. Companies like TSMC, Intel, Micron and several other advanced packaging companies change information about financial estimates, growth projects, internal modeling and their research and development – practically commercial The secrets that allow them to be competitive.
Companies were not happy to give up all this during the process, but they have been assured that it will be protected from rivals and the public. The fact is that Musk himself owns a federal contractor and a number of technology companies, adding a layer of potential troubles for companies who have turned the information to the government.
Sources familiar with the program said, “No one could come to the expected Elon Musk and lock a safe.”
The DOG spokesperson did not respond to CNN’s requests to comment.
