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“Look I disagree with Congresswoman Liz Cheney on a lot of things, but I think everybody needs to stand with her regardless of political party when she stands up to talk about the truth,” he said.
House GOP members voted to boot Cheney Wednesday morning in a closed-door meeting after she repeatedly called out former President Trump
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Van Hollen said Cheney’s stance “squares fully” with an intelligence community assessment warning that narratives of fraud in the election are contributing to extremist activity.
“It s not ambiguous here, it says these kinds of false narratives will almost certainly spur domestic violent extremists to try to engage in violence this year,” he said.
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But Tai said that unfair foreign trade practices had led to a decimation of the industry, forcing most of the near-dozen solar panel manufacturers in the United States to close. Just one remains.
“This is actually a very sad story,” Tai said.
“We can see where this pattern will play out again and again if we are not ready to anticipate the loss of industries to anti-competitive practices and massive subsidies coming from our biggest competitors.”
She pointed to the steel industry as a prime example in which overcapacity from Chinese production has pushed prices down.
Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum, however, led to retaliatory tariffs from close trade partners, and the increased price of steel had downstream effects for manufacturers who use steel in their products.