When Congress last faced a government funding deadline in December, lawmakers teed up provisions to slow the growth of China’s expanding tech industry as part of a spending deal — until Elon Musk and other Republicans killed that legislation in favor of a narrower stopgap bill.
Now, as lawmakers face yet another government funding deadline next week, those China-related provisions look like they will once again be left on the cutting room floor — or, more accurately, left in an Appropriations Committee filing cabinet.
China hawks in Congress told NOTUS they don’t see the upcoming continuing resolution as an appropriate place to make new policy on China. Legislation limiting American dollars from helping critical sectors of the Chinese economy and military failed to pass Congress last year.