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ALLIANCE FOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING 06/24/2019 REP KEVIN McCARTHY STOPS CHINA 'DOMINATION' U.S. TRANSIT SYSTEMS

Submitted by: Larry Jordan

This is outrageous: House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy went out of his way to stop a bipartisan effort to prevent China from dominating U.S. transit systems. There are widespread national security concerns — shared by bipartisan Members of Congress — about China’s role in building U.S. rail cars and buses. But McCarthy used his leadership power to strip language from a recent spending bill that would have limited Chinese companies from building transit. Fortunately, new bipartisan legislation aims to stop companies with ties to China’s government from building U.S. trains and buses. TAKE ACTION NOW Tell your Members of Congress to support the Transit Infrastructure Vehicle Security Act. I recently testified before Congress and exposed China’s government plan to take over the U.S. transit market by any means necessary. Chinese government-owned companies severely underbid on U.S. transit contracts, like ones to build new subway cars or electric buses. But unlike companies that operate in a free market, these companies aren’t out to make money — they’re merely the vehicle China is using to take over the system. One of these companies is Build Your Dreams (BYD), which makes electric buses. But China has even grander ambitions for BYD — it wants to use it to eventually dominate the global auto market. Well, BYD contacted McCarthy about blocking language that would have prevented bus or rail manufacturers supported by the Chinese government from winning transit contracts. And McCarthy complied. TIME TO TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress that America’s tax dollars should NOT be used to support the destruction of U.S.-made transit! There are 90,000 high-wage jobs up and down the U.S. transit supply chain. If China were to control the U.S. transit market, most of those jobs are likely to disappear — all at the expense of U.S. taxpayers, who are footing the bill for transit projects. And if BYD gets its way and does eventually dominate the auto industry, nearly 900,000 well-paying jobs are at risk. That’s not the only concern, either. Security experts warn that China could use facial-recognition technology or other means to spy on Americans. Giving China access to building high-tech railcars and buses is also opens us up to being hacked, and even threatens the Defense Department, which relies on freight rail to move sensitive equipment. Kevin McCarthy might not want to put a stop to this threat, but I do — and I bet you do, too. Thanks, Scott Paul President Alliance for American Manufacturing Alliance for American Manufacturing 711 D Street NW Third Floor Washington, D.C. 20004