You are conflating two distinct issues: support for CHIPS act in congress and support for Intel building the FABs in Ohio. The fact that 12 Ohio congressmen voted against CHIPS act (in its specific form) has nothing to do with which company is going to get the funds and where the FABs will be built. The need for the CHIPS act is understood and supported by both parties. The disagreements are on the specific details and those details do not include Intel building FABs in Ohio. The fact that you ignore this distinction implies that you believe that Ohio congressmen do not want US investing in semiconductor industry period (which also means that they are against funding for TSMC FAB in Arizona).
DoD needs are important but CHIPS act goes way beyond them. CHIPS act is about US competitiveness in semiconductor industry. DoD orders represent just a tiny fraction of semiconductor market. The reason why TSMC is a "critical component of DoD's supply chain" is because US lost competitiveness in foundry business. DoD simply does not have a choice. The reason for CHIPS act is to restore US competitiveness and you can't do it by funding foreign companies. CHIPS act may (and probably will) include funds for some foreign companies. There is no problem in that. But the focus will be on domestic companies. I am pretty sure DoD and US government in general are aware of the China/Taiwan situation. Here are just a couple of
quotes from U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (from a month ago):
“It is a huge national security issue and we need to move to making chips in America, not friend-shoring"
“America buys 70% of its most sophisticated chips from Taiwan. Those are the chips in military equipment. There’s like, 250 chips in a javelin launching system. You want to be buying all that from Taiwan? That’s not secure”
Quote from the same article:
“Friend-shoring” refers to working with countries that possess a “strong adherence to a set of norms and values about how to operate in the global economy and how to run the global economic system,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen outlined in a speech in April.
I am actually not arguing much one way or another. I am pretty sure that whatever I post here is not going to influence US government decisions
I am just listening to what the government is telling us and I am surprised how many people here have their own (and seemingly totally different) interpretation of what US government is doing or should be doing.