Texas congressman says he will try to stop tech exports to China

“To my knowledge, this is the first time we’ve seen something like this from a foreign adversary,” Rep. Michael McCall said.

TEXAS, USA. The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said the Chinese spy balloon sent a provocative message to the United States and the president.

And this chairman, who holds one of the most powerful positions in the US House of Representatives, happens to be a Texan, Congressman Michael McCall.

The Austin Republican says he will send a clear signal that the move is unacceptable.

“What I will do as chairman of the Foreign Office is to stop the export of technology to China, which they then use in their most advanced weapons systems,” Congressman McCall said. Inside Texas Politics. “They steal a lot of our intellectual property. But, for God’s sake, we don’t need to sell them technology so that they then turn to point at us.”

The Republican says the technology will include anything in the national security supply chain.

Chairman McCall said he would also hold secret briefings where he would get answers to some of his questions, such as why the US didn’t shoot down the balloon immediately, what information was gathered from it, and what data was passed back to China.

He also cited a law passed by Congress last year that moves semiconductor manufacturing back to the US, rather than to countries vulnerable to China, such as Taiwan.

In fact, the congressman calls them “national security chips” and says the same should be done with other important imports vital to the defense of the country.

“This is a big step forward in what we need to do. But we should also do this with rare earth materials, with medical supplies. I look forward to working on such bills in this Congress,” the Chairman said.

As for the upcoming debate on raising the debt ceiling, Rep. McCall says he would like discretionary spending to be capped at 2022 levels.

Lawmakers must either raise the national debt ceiling to pay off the interest on the nation’s debt and fund federal programs already approved by Congress, or cut spending.

The Republican chairman has made it clear that no cuts or restrictions should be applied to defense spending.

“It’s hard for me to imagine that there would be no waste in the federal budget that we cannot reduce. Right now we are passing on about $32 trillion of debt to our children and grandchildren. I think it’s immoral,” he said. “And indeed, most of this debt has been accumulated over the past six years, so this is a bipartisan issue for which both parties are responsible. And I think both sides have a responsibility to solve the problem.”

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