Michigan lawmakers push for bill to ban Chinese-made cars

Senator Elissa Slotkin and Congresswoman Haley Stevens talking about bipartisan legislation to make sure that Chinese EV car companies can’t just dump cars here for two reasons: one, it’s bad for our security, our cybersecurity, because those cars can take pictures of sensitive places all across the country, but also, because of our economy.

Senator Slotkin: “Everyone says American cars collect the same information. Yes, but they’re also American companies that are subject to American laws. The Chinese Communist Party is not.”

Senator Slotkin: “They cheat. They subsidize their cars so that they’re super cheap. They come into a market, like Michigan, they undersell everybody and destroy the local industry, and we’ve got 500,000 jobs here in Michigan with the auto industry.”

“We’ve got to push on these bills and wake up our colleagues across the country to the needs of the industrial Midwest, to the Michigan manufacturing moment that we find ourselves in. So goes Michigan, so goes the country.”