the rest of your career here. there s things you can do, but wholesale gutting, when i talk to veterans of the department of justic democrats and republicans, they just said it s not going to happen. what they said to focus on is prosecutorial discretion and policies that inform that that a new president brings in. senior writer for the dispatc david drucker, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. so 40 years after regan omics, coining the term bidenomics, about building upwards from the middle and lower classes, instead of expecting money to trickle down from the country s wealthiest people. part of the plan includes the $53 billion chips and science act, which provides incentives for domestic chip manufacturing. the president is expected to talk about this in a big way in his speech today in chicago.
manufacturing jobs. and in particular, mika, i m focused on the chips and science act, and chips implementation, if president biden has taken office. we have seen over $500 billion in private sector investment in the united states, $200 billion of that, mika, is invested in chips and science companies and semiconductor companies. i think he s going to be talking about how his legislative accomplishments are translating to improving the lives of the american people. it s been a familiar refrain for the white house. i feel like they re not getting public credit for the work they have done on the economy. in fact, polls suggest that voters trust republicans and even donald trump more on the economy than they do president biden at least to this point. so this is, you know, one way to get credit. you put your name on it. talk to us a little bit, there s risk attached to that, too. we re still a year and a half from the election. there are certainly encouraging signs in the economy right n
confirmed by the senate. so that, for example, right now, there are many jurisdictions that do not have u.s. attorneys because the republicans are refusing to confirm them. my state is a good example. we have no u.s. attorneys in missouri right now. they re all acting and not permanent replacements because the senators in missouri are refusing to cooperate. speak to that and the problems that go with that, but also i want to make sure you delineate what civil service protections fbi agents have. because really what a lot of these candidates are talking about is trying to rebuild or redo or start over with the fbi. talk about the problems associated with the fbi in particular. well, let s take two of those issues, one at a time, first of all, u.s. attorneys are of course federal prosecutors. occasionally there are holdovers. the biden administration under
justice john roberts said in the majority opinion, he said, state courts retain the authority to apply state constitutional restraints when legislatures act under the power conferred upon them by the elections clause. so, basically you even heard former president obama, he weighed in right away, praising this ruling saying that the court had really turned back what he called a fringe legal theory. so, that deals with what we saw in 2020, an attempt to use this theory to allow states to really overturn the results of their election in a presidential election. who about on the way congressional districts are drawn, because that is another major affect on the decision going forward as well. the one thing you got to remember here, one of the reasons the republicans may have been really pushing this is things stand right now for states that biden carried in the 2020 are led by republican
Idaho Gov. Len Jordan stands before the podium as he speaks at the American Legion Hall in Genesee in this photo published in the Oct. 26, 1952, Lewiston Tribune. Jordan