With bipartisan assist, Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) co-introduced a invoice with Sen. Maggie Hassan, (D – NH) to scale back America’s reliance on China for batteries.
“America is coming into its Golden Age with President Trump again within the White Home, and meaning prioritizing American manufacturing and self-reliance,” Sen. Scott stated in an official assertion.
Sen. Hassan echoed Scott’s nationwide safety issues.
“Our nationwide safety mustn’t require reliance on elements made by adversaries like China,” Sen. Hassan stated. “This bipartisan laws will assist safeguard each our provide chains and our nationwide safety by stopping the Division of Homeland Safety from buying Chinese language batteries for the units and know-how that preserve People protected.”
If handed and signed into legislation, then Scott and Hassan’s invoice, the Decoupling from International Adversarial Battery Dependence Act, would “prohibit the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) from procuring batteries from six particular corporations owned and operated in Communist China.”
Within the Home of Representatives, South Florida Republican Congressman Carlos Gimenez is main the US Home model of the invoice.
“Communist China is doing every little thing it will possibly to realize international dominance and is prepared to hurt People and companies, manipulate our provide chains and breach our cybersecurity within the course of,” Scott stated. “With our nation presently sourcing a majority of its batteries from Chinese language-linked producers, we’re topic to a serious, pointless threat to our nationwide safety. I’m proud to introduce the International Adversarial Battery Dependence Act to assist safe our nationwide safety and take a stand towards Communist China seeking to make the most of American shoppers. I look ahead to this crucial laws changing into legislation.”
Scott’s invoice comes two years after former Senator, present US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Congress of China-Linked Batteries at U.S. army bases.
