They’re making a political advertisement to get favors for things they already did. The meat of the announcement is that the plants started under the Biden administration are continuing as planned – which is an accomplishment of sorts given how complex fabs are – and they’d really like to continue getting the CHIPS act funding which Trump periodically talks about cancelling because it was a Biden-era law even though it had strong support from Republicans who favor investing in important domestic industries, especially in their districts:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-congress-corny...