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In a direct challenge to President Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that Congress would take steps to prevent the Chinese tech firm ZTE from being able to operate in the United States.
Trump had announced last week that he would allow the telecom giant to reopen, in a stunning reversal after the United States had imposed crippling penalties on the company for sanctions violations.
In an appearance on CBS Newss Face the Nation, Rubio (R-Fla.) said there is a growing commitment in Congress to do something about what China is trying to do to the United States and that one of the things that Congress will do is .?.?. not even allow Chinese telecom companies to operate in the United States.
None of these companies should be operating in this country, he said, also naming the Chinese telecom firm Huawei. None of them.
Rubio has been a leader of the congressional charge against Trumps plans to ease the restrictions on ZTE that were imposed after it broke U.S. sanctions by selling products to Iran and North Korea. As part of a deal reached last week with ZTE, the firm would be required to buy American-made parts and pay a $1.3 billion fine.
But lawmakers like Rubio remain unconvinced that the terms will do anything to keep China from using companies like ZTE to target U.S. national and corporate security.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rubio-in-challenge-to-trump-suggests-congress-will-act-against-zte/ar-AAxSWaO?li=BBnb7Kz
rurallib
(62,477 posts)I wouldn't expect anything from the Vichy Republicans including little Marco
SHRED
(28,136 posts)What about tomorrow?
dem4decades
(11,317 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,269 posts)Bible verse and do a complete 180 when asked to "clarify". as he always does.
TheBlackAdder
(28,242 posts)kysrsoze
(6,025 posts)Hes always completely full of shit and always going along.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)with Trump's reversing his original decision about ZTE. He's got his hands into too many foreign-financed pots.