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Rep. Good Introduces No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese Communist Party Act

January 26, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bob Good (VA-05) has introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese Communist Party Act, which requires the Attorney General to provide a report to Congress within one year of enactment on the extent to which Communist China has benefited from taxpayer funded research.

“Americans’ hard-earned money should not be funding the Chinese Communist Party,” said Congressman Bob Good. “Instead of bragging about spending time with the dictator Xi Jinping, President Biden should be doing everything he can to protect Americans and ensure their tax dollars are not helping one of America’s top national security threats on the global stage. My bill will hold the Biden Administration accountable and send a signal that no American tax dollars should be directed to assist the CCP in the future.”

This report would include a list of United States Government-funded entities, such as research institutions, laboratories, and institutions of higher education, which have hired Chinese nationals or allowed Chinese nationals to conduct research, including an estimate in the number of nationals hired or involved in research projects.

Background:

  • In 2008, the Senate Homeland Security Committee stated there were more than 35,000 foreign nationals, including 10,000 from China, conducting research in the Department of Energy’s National Labs. 
  • According to the Department of Education in 2019, “one university received research funding from a Chinese multinational conglomerate to develop new algorithms and advance biometric security techniques for crowd surveillance capabilities,” while another “had multiple contracts with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.” SOURCE
  • A 2019 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report found that, “…American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China’s global rise over the last 20 years.” SOURCE
  • In 2021, the Biden Administration dropped rules that the Trump administration proposed, which required American colleges and universities to disclose their agreements with Confucius Institutes — a Chinese language program accused by U.S. officials of spreading communist propaganda fed from Beijing. INFO
  • In 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that China’s government has used some students and professors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields as non-traditional collectors of intellectual property. SOURCE
  • This legislation is endorsed by the RSC Budget taskforce and was a recommendation of the RSC National Security Strategy Report of 2020.

Cosponsors (5): Joe Wilson (R-SC), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Mary Miller (R-IL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL)