Posted on 05/27/2021 5:25:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An exasperated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted his frustration late Thursday after the Senate on a 91-4 vote adopted a measure that cuts U.S. tariffs on hundreds of products imported from China.
“The ‘China bill’ now reduces tariffs on hundreds of products made in #China. Why would we cut tariffs on China in a bill to improve American’s ability to compete with China? And only @HawleyMO, @TomCottonAR @BernieSanders, and I voted against it. #Strangebedfellows,” Rubio said in his tweet.
Just a few minutes before that tweet, Rubio tweeted a segment of his floor speech from earlier in the day in which he passionately told Senate colleagues the national security safeguards in the bill to protect U.S. technology research are inadequate.
“What I want you to understand is this is not a minor security threat, this is the number one priority of Chinese intelligence, this is what all of their agencies and all of their government are geared towards doing,” Rubio said, referring to Chinese digital and human intelligence theft of American secrets.
Rubio’s ire was stirred by the amendment that ran to more than 280 pages, making major changes to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act.
The amendment was introduced by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and co-sponsored by Republican senators Charles Grassley of Iowa, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Steve Daines of Montana, John Cornyn of Texas, James Lankford of Oklahoma and Todd Young of Indiana.
An internal analysis of the amendment described it as having four major flaws, including:
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America Last
Make America Poor Again
I still won’t buy Chinese if at all humanly possible.
So why didn’t Cruz vote against this????
Knowing full well all of this cr@p was coming if the DEMs got the White House, why wasn’t this time for another revolution? Too many keyboard warriors and not enough people willing to make the sacrifice?
The entire Congress needs to be cancelled. 91-4 in favor of screwimg the American worker. WTH???
Yep!
Hunter and his GOP friends, did you notice?
Make America Weak Again
wtf?
Nice timing as we get over the china virus
91-4!!!!!!
Meanwhile they are slapping tariffs on Canadian lumber. China owns these people.
94-1 is why Trump was allowed to be deposed and we were handed over to a Communist government. I hope those bastard Republicans that enriched themselves by selling their souls to the Devil enjoy their short time on this earth. The Hell that’s coming for them is going to be hot and painful.
Something very odd.
You could not get the senate to agree 94 to 1 that tomorrow is Friday.
Very strange.
Rubio did the right thing.
trump was winning the trade war; he was using selected tariffs to eliminate all tariffs. it was brilliant.
this is walking away from that victory.
politically, making nice with the country that turned covid loose on the world is a mistake.
How did China Mitch vote?
Why not do a little foresting here in the USA? Naw...they’d rather watch it burn.
We’re being sold out right in front of our eyes and they’re laughing at us. They have NO fear.
Yes..SOMETING not right here
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