{"id":1564822,"date":"2022-07-21T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564822"},"modified":"2022-07-21T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:04:36","slug":"rubio-tenney-turn-off-the-tap-act-would-bar-fed-contracts-with-prohibited-chinese-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-tenney-turn-off-the-tap-act-would-bar-fed-contracts-with-prohibited-chinese-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio, Tenney \u2018Turn Off the Tap\u2019 Act Would Bar Fed Contracts With Prohibited Chinese Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frubio-tenney-turn-off-the-tap-act-would-bar-fed-contracts-with-prohibited-chinese-firms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564822&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>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.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people\u2019s tax dollars should not be invested in blacklisted Chinese companies. Yet today, because of weak policies in Washington, they continue to be. It\u2019s time we cut off the tap,\u201d Tenney said in a joint July 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/tenney.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/tenney-rubio-introduce-bill-turn-tap-federal-investment-blacklisted-chinese\">statement<\/a> with Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) predatory trade policies, significant human rights abuses, and threats to American security are absolutely unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Rubio told The Epoch Times in a separate statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know who the bad actors are in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> because many of them are on U.S. government blacklists. At a minimum, we should make sure Chinese businesses on those lists don\u2019t have access to federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party is actively seeking to weaken and destabilize America. We should not be funding its companies with U.S. taxpayer dollars,\u201d Rubio continued.<\/p>\n<p>In their joint statement, Tenney and Rubio singled out two Chinese firms\u2014 drone maker DJI and defense conglomerate AVIC\u2014 that are presently recipients of U.S. tax dollars, but which would be barred under the \u201cTurn Off Federal Funding of Threatening Entities that Thwart American Prosperity Act,\u201d or the \u201cTurn Off the Tap Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While particularly concerned with Chinese firms, the Tenney\/Rubio legislation would apply to any company featured on a number of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.). \u201cThe American people\u2019s tax dollars should not be invested in blacklisted Chinese companies. 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