Bipartisan bill would ban China, 'hostile' countries from manufacturing inventions funded by US taxpayers
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Sens. Tammy Baldwin and JD Vance have teamed up to introduce a bipartisan bill that would ban China from manufacturing any American taxpayer-funded technologies
While current law requires federally-funded inventions to be manufactured in the United States, the senators say this requirement is often waived, allowing cutting-edge, taxpayer-funded technologies to be licensed to foreign companies and manufactured in countries like China. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"When taxpayer dollars are used to fund innovation, American companies and workers are the ones who should be reaping the benefits," said Baldwin.
This "flawed" system was exposed in late 2022 when an investigative report by NPR revealed that the Department of Energy had approved the manufacturing of vanadium redox flow batteries – a revolutionary technology invented by scientists in a federally-funded lab – to be licensed to China.
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