FROM TODAY’S BADLANDS NEWS BRIEFS
‘I don’t know how this happened’: A $3B secret program undermining Biden’s tech policy
A backroom Washington deal brokered two years ago is undercutting a key part of President Joe Biden’s policy to grow the national high-tech manufacturing base — pushing more than $3 billion into a secretive national-security project promoted by chipmaker Intel.
In recent weeks, Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have been taking victory laps for the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, a law intended to create jobs and fund innovation in a key global industry. It has already launched a series of grants, incentives and research proposals to help America regain its cutting-edge status in global semiconductor manufacturing.
But quietly, in a March spending bill, appropriators in Congress shifted $3.5 billion that the Commerce Department was hoping to use for those grants and pushed it into a separate Pentagon program called Secure Enclave, which is not mentioned in the original law.
The diversion of money from a flagship Biden initiative is a case study in how fragile Washington’s monumental spending programs can be in practice. Biden’s legacy is bound up in the fate of more than $1 trillion in government spending and tax incentives aimed at transforming the economy — but even money appropriated for a strategic national goal can wind up being rerouted for narrow or opaque purposes. — Politico
Our Take: “‘When you know the way broadly, you can see it in all things.’
Patriot ghosts aren’t being too subtle lately.
In recent months, I’ve been digging into what I’ve dubbed ‘The Switch’ theory, which posits that, while the Narratives surrounding the US economy, manufacturing and energy production are catastrophic for the regime, there are a host of Actuals kicked off by Donald Trump (and continued by his Proxy President, Joe Biden,) that are already paving the way toward a much brighter future.
This economic theory runs in parallel with the Devolution research of Jon Herold. After all, the economy, domestic manufacturing and US energy security feel like National Essential Functions to me.
Now, we’ve got ‘sourced’ intel pouring out of the MSM that the Biden Admin has no idea why billions in funding it earmarked for the Trump-proposed CHIPS Act it signed is being controlled and coordinated by the Department of Defense.
We already won. The rest is a matter of timing, and storytelling.” — Burning Bright
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They (some politicians) are criminal & others are just stupid. Apparently they don’t have audits like companies do. 🤦🏼♀️