Op-Ed: Kevin Schmidt: How vague statutory language enabled the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act overreach, and what Congress must do next

Op-Ed: Kevin Schmidt: How vague statutory language enabled the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act overreach, and what Congress must do next

When Congress rejected sweeping child care subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration’s Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo reportedly told her staff, “if Congress wasn’t going to do what they should have done, we’re going to do it in implementation.”That wasn’t just rhetoric — it became a blueprint for how the Biden administration would abuse a bill meant to support the domestic production of semiconductors, the CHIPS and S…