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Biden Calls Out Reps. Williams and Stefanik Over CHIPS Act Opposition

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While in Syracuse Thursday to tout the $6.1 billion Micron is getting through the CHIPS and Science Act, President Joe Biden called out MAGA Republicans for opposing the act, including Representatives Brandon Williams and Elise Stefanik.

“They oppose the CHIPS and Science Act that’s powering this growth today. In fact, your congressman Brandon Williams called it corporate welfare, and Elise Stefanik, a few counties over, she said the CHIPS Act was Washington at its worst end quote,” said President Biden. “I guess they’re not going to be here today to celebrate.”

Brandon Williams, who lives in Sennett, represents New York’s 22nd Congressional District. The district currently consists of Madison, Oneida, and Onondaga Counties along with a portion of Oswego County. Beginning in 2025, the district will change the boundaries, adding the southern half of Cayuga County including Auburn to it.

Elise Stefanik represents the 21st Congressional District which spans Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Montgomery, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Warren, and Washington counties, and parts of Jefferson, Otsego, and Rensselaer counties.

Auburn also received a mention from the president during his speech.

“For decades, decades, [Syracuse] was a manufacturing boomtown full of good paying jobs and a solid middle class. I know. I lived here,” President Biden continued. “I married a wonderful woman from Skaneateles Lake. That’s why I came to Syracuse Law School; I felt it. But over the years, trickle-down economics swept it all away. Under my predecessor manufacturers left; factories like BCS Automotive over in Auburn where her family lived shut down. 22,000 local jobs disappeared in the Syracuse region.”

President Biden married Neilia Hunter in Skaneateles in 1966 while attending Syracuse University. Shortly before Biden became a US Senator, Neilia and their daughter Naomi were killed in a car crash.

Senator Chuck Schumer broke the news last week that Micron would get the funding for its Syracuse area project and Idaho headquarters.

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