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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Agree On

The president is rewriting the GOP’s economic playbook

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Gabe Fleisher
Aug 28, 2025
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Three years ago, as the Senate was debating the CHIPS and Science Act, two of the chamber’s most progressive members — Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — teamed up to introduce a controversial amendment.

The bill included tens of billions of dollars in funding for domestic manufacturers of semiconductors, the tiny computer chips that power everything …

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