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House Passes Chips Bill as Republicans Air Soft-on-China Gripes

  • Victory may be months away amid Senate talks on final bill
  • Bill highlights divergence between two parties on Beijing
Employees wear cleanroom suits inside a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York.

Employees wear cleanroom suits inside a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York.

Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg
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The House passed an expansive bill that would invest tens of billions in the U.S. tech sector, but Republican objections that it’s too weak on China threaten what Democrats hoped would be a quick election-year win.

The bill started as a bipartisan push to bolster U.S. manufacturing and research, and ease the dependence on China for semiconductors, but it became mired in long-standing partisanship over U.S. policy on China.