House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he wanted Congress to pass a significant package of legislation to target the Chinese communist regime before the year’s end.
“China poses the greatest threat to global peace. Congress must keep our focus on countering China with every tool at our disposal,” Mr. Johnson said in his first major foreign policy speech at the Hudson Institute on July 8.
Mr. Johnson promised that the House would vote on these bills to help lay the groundwork for the next administration to target U.S. adversaries’ economies when it takes office in January next year.
“The House will be voting on a series of bills to empower the next administration to hit our enemies’ economies on day one. We’ll build our sanctions package, punish the Chinese military firms that provide material support to Russia and Iran,” the Louisiana Republican said. “We’re working on a piece of legislation to move this fall to do that very thing.”…