Florida’s senior Senator wants a tech company to refund taxpayer dollars.
Backing President Donald Trump’s denunciation of Intel Thursday morning, Rick Scott said on X, in a post rife with all caps words for emphasis, that the company “owes American taxpayers answers TODAY.”
“Intel accepted tax dollars from the CHIPS Act, and instead of investing in America, they cut jobs in the U.S. and hired a CEO with a cozy relationship to the CCP. The CHIPS Act was intended to benefit America, not our adversaries. Intel should return every dime of this taxpayer funding IMMEDIATELY!”
Trump claims the Intel CEO is “highly CONFLICTED” and “must resign, immediately.”
Intel got $7.86 billion during the Joe Biden administration for semiconductor manufacturing and plants in Arizona, Ne