Rubio, Tenney ‘Turn Off the Tap’ Act Would Bar Fed Contracts With Prohibited Chinese Firms
Firms listed for trade violations or sanctions would be prohibited from receiving U.S. tax dollars through direct government contracts or with third parties under legislation proposed in Congress by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
“The American people’s tax dollars should not be invested in blacklisted Chinese companies. Yet today, because of weak policies in Washington, they continue to be. It’s time we cut off the tap,” Tenney said in a joint July 20 statement with Rubio.
“The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) predatory trade policies, significant human rights abuses, and threats to American security are absolutely unacceptable.
“In upstate New York, we have seen their disastrous effects firsthand. Enough is enough. It is time to step up and make commonsense reforms to ensure Americans are not funding these entities.”
“The Chinese Communist Party actively exploits our free enterprise system and the extraordinary loopholes within our government. It is dumb and dangerous to allow that to continue,” Rubio told The Epoch Times in a separate statement.
“We know who the bad actors are in China because many of them are on U.S. government blacklists. At a minimum, we should make sure Chinese businesses on those lists don’t have access to federal funds.
“The Chinese Communist Party is actively seeking to weaken and destabilize America. We should not be funding its companies with U.S. taxpayer dollars,” Rubio continued.
In their joint statement, Tenney and Rubio singled out two Chinese firms— drone maker DJI and defense conglomerate AVIC— that are presently recipients of U.S. tax dollars, but which would be barred under the “Turn Off Federal Funding of Threatening Entities that Thwart American Prosperity Act,” or the “Turn Off the Tap Act.”
While particularly concerned with Chinese firms, the Tenney/Rubio legislation would apply to any company featured on a number of
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