During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about President Trump's proposed chips deal with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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00:00On the chip deal, Donald Trump says he's strong on China, but his trip to the
00:07Middle East shows once again that this is mostly talk with very little substance.
00:11Just like in his recent reduction in tariffs with China, America got almost
00:17nothing and China got everything. This again, the chip deal, shows that China's
00:23running circles, the Chinese government is running circles around Donald Trump.
00:28Right now the Trump administration is in talks for a so-called chip deal
00:34with Saudi Arabia and the UAE that would greenlight the sale of the most
00:39sensitive US chip technology in exchange for vague promises of more foreign
00:44investment. This deal could very well be dangerous because we have no clarity on
00:50how the Saudis and Emiratis will prevent this Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese
00:55government, the Chinese manufacturing establishment, from getting their hands
00:59on these chips. Inevitably, when foreign countries end up with American-made chips,
01:07the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, sooner or later gets hold of these American chips
01:12and their secrets in them. That's why we've had such strong restrictions against
01:18exporting these chips to other countries. This deal screams security risk and loophole
01:27as China could be ready to exploit American technology. No respected security expert
01:33will tell you with a straight face that these advanced chips won't eventually find
01:37their way into the AI supercomputers of the Chinese government and manufacturers.
01:45And I'm not the only one worried. It's not just Democrats worried on this. Thank God the
01:50Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP has expressed similar
01:56concerns about these deals. Even worse, if we send our best chips to Saudi Arabia and
02:03the UAE, we'll be giving them the tools they need to build the best IA supercomputers
02:08in the world, in their countries, not America. What's this about bringing jobs and high-end
02:14technology back to the country, which we Democrats worked so long and hard to do successfully
02:20in the science and chips bill? All of a sudden, it's okay to give it to other countries, especially
02:27other countries whose security might be not as tight as ours and allow the Chinese government
02:33to get hold of these chips. I urge Secretary Rubio, who has been a China hawk, and Secretary
02:41Lutnik, to prevent these deals from proceeding until we can be dead certain that these chips
02:48won't make their way into Chinese government hands. Remember that earlier this year, DeepSeek
02:56announced the development of an incredibly powerful AI model built with American chips. We have to double down,
03:03on blocking the flow of our AI chips to China directly and indirectly through third countries.
03:09The Trump administration also needs to protect against offshoring of American AI technology.
03:15AI is the industry of our time. It should be proudly made in America by American workers, not sent overseas
03:22to the highest bidder. Why did Trump make this deal? Who the heck knows? The way he trades for things
03:29for his own personal aggrandizement, and for his own ego, and to please a few of his friends. Lord knows
03:35why they got hold of these chips, why they're getting hold of these chips, what was done in exchange
03:41that made Trump happy. If Trump's goal in the Middle East is to enrich himself long term,
03:48then by all accounts, he's knocking it out of the park. But if his goal is to ensure American security and
03:55American AI leadership, this deal would be like a stick of lit dynamite. Yield the floor.