Linda Moore, president and CEO of TechNet, a tech lobbying group that counts Amazon, Apple[,] and Google among its members, said The Sector™ can now frame follow-up immigration action as a chance "to deliver on the promise of what this bill [CHIPS and Science] was passed to do."

"It is a national security issue," Moore said. "Cybersecurity alone, but also the fact that it's high-skilled immigration and filling the jobs that we need in companies across the industry, defense contractors being one of them."