Colin Allred: “The Chips and Science act that we passed, we just had an…”

“The infrastructure bill that I voted for and got past through the Congress is bringing $35 billion to our state over five years. That's creating jobs. The Chips and Science act that we passed, we just had an announcement last week. I think that Texas Instruments is getting $1.6 billion from that, creating thousands of manufacturing jobs once those fabs are built. But in the meantime, also thousands of jobs in terms of folks working on building them. Those are smart investments that bring more into our economy than we put in.” (03:11–03:24)

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