Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Warning Trump Not To Sell America Out To China

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor warning Donald Trump not to capitulate to Chinese President Xi Jinping's demands and compromise American supply chains, economic independence, and national security. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Donald Trump may have no interest in helping the American people get ahead, but he certainly seems willing to give China a leg up. We all ought to fear what Donald Trump may concede to China just so he can claim a headline.

Trump has fantasized about $1 trillion in Chinese investments in America that would give the Chinese a stranglehold on our economy, threaten our supply chains, our economic independence, our national security.

This is Trump empowering Xi's Made in China ambitions, selling out American manufacturers and workers, giving CCP businesses an edge in undermining America building industries of the future here at home. He's opening the door, he's saying, "China you come here. Use all American innovation and technology and everything else and then send it back to China and let China take the lead over America on industry after industry." What a disgrace. The American people, American businesses aren't going to fall for this bunk.

And then there are many other things we all worry about that Trump would or could do to weaken American workers, families, and businesses when he gets out-negotiated by Xi. That's happened time and time again. Here are some of the things that Donald Trump could do that we all worry about - that American workers, American families, American people, American companies worry about.

Donald Trump could sell out American autoworkers by allowing Chinese EVs to flood our markets and crowd out domestic manufacturing.

Donald Trump could sell out America on chips and AI, allowing the sale of our AI chips and semiconductor equipment to China so they can catch up in the technology race that will define the global economy for the next decade. This is a clear and present threat not just to American jobs but to our national security.

Donald Trump could sell out on fentanyl, failing to use American leverage to extract real and meaningful concessions from the Chinese Communist Party to prevent the deadly flow of fentanyl poisoning our communities. This is an issue I brought up directly with Xi years ago, we were making some progress. Will Donald Trump sell it out? We all worry about it.

Donald Trump could sell out Taiwan, whose people want to continue living in freedom instead of under the jackboot of the Chinese Communist Party. Any threat Trump allows Xi Jinping to make against the Taiwanese is a threat to global democracy, it's also a threat to the global economy, given how many semiconductor chips are made in Taiwan.

So in all of these things, forget the "art of the deal," Trump is practicing the "art of the duped."

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