vice-president Kamala Harris damn Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday after his comment that the GOP could seek to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act if it retains control of Congress.

“I want to talk about comments that were recently made by the Speaker of the House,” Harris told reporters in Milwaukee. according to NBC News. “This is further proof of everything I’ve been talking about for months, of (former President Donald) Trump’s intention to implement Project 2025.”

Johnson spent the week before the election revealing plans to scrap popular legislation next year. On Friday, while attending an event in New York with Rep. Brandon Williams (R-N.Y.), whose seat is vulnerable, Johnson was asked if Republicans will seek to repeal the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan industry and jobs bill that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022.

“I think we probably will,” Johnson said.

This put Williams in the awkward position of disagreeing with Johnson while he stood beside him. “The CHIPS Act has a huge impact here,” Williams said, pledging to “remind” Johnson “night and day” of the law’s importance.

Johnson later walked back his comment, saying in a statement: “As I have explained and clarified in greater detail, I fully support Micron’s arrival in Central New York, and the CHIPS Act is not not on the agenda to be repealed. Rather, there could be legislation to further streamline and improve the bill’s main goal: eliminating its costly regulations and Green New Deal requirements.

Williams said in a statement that Johnson apologized and said “he misheard the question.”

Signed into law in 2022, the CHIPS and Science Act “establishes and funds the Creating America’s Semiconductor Incentives (CHIPS) Fund to carry out activities related to creating production incentives of semiconductors in the United States,” according to the summary. The Commerce Department notes that ACT has generated $53 billion in semiconductor spending, $30 billion in private sector investment, 16 new semiconductor factories, and the creation of more than 100,000 new manufacturing and construction jobs to date.

Earlier this week, Johnson said he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Actthe Obama-era health law that Trump and Republicans have been trying to repeal for years — with no plan to replace it. “No Obamacare,” Johnson said. “The ACA is so deeply entrenched that we need massive reform to make it work, and we have a lot of ideas on how to get there. »

Trump tried to distance himself from Johnson’s comments, which the House speaker later tried to walk back. claims that when he said the ACA was “deeply rooted,” he meant it should stay that way.

Democrats criticized Johnson and Republicans for their plans to kill the two popular bills. On Saturday, Harris continued to criticize Johnson’s comment on the possibility of repealing the CHIPS Act, saying he walked back his original statement “because it’s not popular and their agenda is not popular “.

“And that’s why people are coming together in their thousands, if not tens of thousands, to talk about an agenda that’s actually about uplifting them,” she added.