Michigan fails in order to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant, Whitmer blames “massive economic uncertainty”
Plans to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Michigan fell and Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on Wednesday that a “massive economic uncertainty” was to be blamed.
Bringing the company to Michigan was a key goal for Whitmer, Democrat and candidate for the potential presidential election in 2028 who is in his last years as governor of the state of the battlefield.
National manufacturing is a priority of the second administration of President Donald Trump and the president has exploited prices as a means of encouraging companies to build and stay in America. Although Whitmer did not mention Trump by name in his remarks, she pointed out on her prices which periodically rocked the economy this year.
“Their council came to this decision in the midst of national economic disorders, which risks aggravating among threats of even higher prices,” said Whitmer in a statement.
Whitmer did not appoint the company, but state files show that the Sandisk Corp. Californian technology company. envisaged the sprawling site of 1,300 acres near the city of Flint and provided 9,400 jobs and 5,000 construction jobs.
Sandisk refused to comment on Wednesday.
The news quickly sparked political declarations in the duel of the Republicans and the Democrats of the State.
The Trump administration uses prices and other tactics to bring manufacturing back to critical areas such as semiconductors in the United States, the White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement in response to Whitmer’s remarks.
Desai highlighted the development of new semiconductors in Texas and Arizona this year, while victories collected by the Trump administration in the flea and technology industry.
On Wednesday, other Democrats quickly attributed the loss in Michigan to Trump’s economic policies.
“Trump’s abandonment of long -term investments and chaotic tariff practices does not only increase costs, they just killed 10,000 well -paid jobs,” said US representative Kristen McDonald Rivet, a democrat who represents the region, in a statement. “It could have changed the situation for the Mid-Michigan economy.”
The president of the House of Representatives of Michigan, Matt Hall, a Republican, said that he was supporting Trump’s strategy to rely on prices and incentives in the bill of tax and expenditure to provide the development of manufacturing in America, not abroad.
“We just need heads of state who focus on the guarantee that Michigan is the best place possible to build and grow,” he said.
Sandisk, known for making flash readers and memory cards, sought to innovate on the project in 2025, according to documents provided by Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
Michigan offered Sandisk $ 1.925 billion in cash grants, $ 250 million in labor development and around $ 3.76 billion in tax alternatives, according to documents dated August 2024.
The Congress adopted the Flea and Sciences Act, encouraging technological development halfway from the term of former President Joe Biden. Even if Trump and Republican legislators have since threatened to end the law, the Ministry of Commerce collaborated with Sandisk to obtain federal incentives thanks to the package.
Whitmer, in its press release, said that the company no longer sought to build a semiconductor installation everywhere in the United States in a speech in May, Whitmer said that it had pleaded directly to the Trump administration to help bring a flea plant to the state.
