GOP candidate for Congress in Central NY called chip incentives ‘corporate welfare’

NY-22 GOP candidates Wells and Williams hold forum in Syracuse

Brandon Williams, the Republican nominee in the 22nd Congressional District election, speaks at the Collegian Hotel in Syracuse, Tuesday, August 2, 2022. N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com

Brandon Williams, the Republican nominee for Congress in Central New York, criticized the federal incentives that helped convince Micron Technology to invest up to $100 billion building computer chip plants in Onondaga County.

In August, Williams called the Chips and Science Act passed by Congress a “corporate welfare package for the profitable chip industry.”

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