COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Last week, President Donald Trump called for the repeal of repeal of the CHIPS Act, bipartisan legislation that was key in helping Ohio secure a multi-billion-dollar intel investment.  

Now, Gov. Mike DeWine is speaking about the president’s call to action to repeal the CHIPS Act and whether he agrees.  

“I support the CHIPS Act,” DeWine said. “Look, this is good for our national defense and its good for our country, for all the reasons I said at the time. So, I haven’t changed my mind a bit about that.”  

But what does this do for Intel? The project has already been delayed several times, but DeWine said regardless of the CHIPS Act, he is confident Intel will finish building in Ohio eventually.  

“Well, I certainly hope [the CHIPS Act] does not [get repealed]. That is part of what we felt was going to happen. Again, I don’t have a crystal ball. I don’t know how this is going to play out,” DeWine said. “But Intel, they are going to be making chips there … they’re not going to walk away from $7 billion and leave it in Ohio in our ground and walk away.”

DeWine said as far as the timeline goes, “we’ve never really known that for sure,” but reiterated that he is confident that chips will be made in Ohio. DeWine also said that Intel is not the only exciting venture into Ohio.    

“There’s a lot of construction going on, there’s a lot of things being built,” DeWine said.  

DeWine said now the focus of the state has to be on workforce development and filling all the jobs that are on the way.  

In DeWine’s State of the State, he boasted of projects like First Quality Tissue in northwest Ohio, a financial company called Wordplay near Cincinnati, and Anduril, a defense company in central Ohio.