President Musk's DOGE gets big win by saving $190m of govt money that was about to be wasted on child cancer research
WHY THE GOVT ALMOST SHUTDOWN? - THE ORIGINAL BILL MADE IT HARDER FOR PRESIDENT MUSK TO BUILD TESLA FACTORIES IN CHINA
The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China
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This is the first scandal of the second Trump term, and take a long look, because it’s going to look like all the other scandals: a conflict of interest among his impossibly wealthy advisers and aides (or from Trump himself) seeps over into policy.
The measure at issue is known as the “outbound investment” provision. We have heard for years about the problem of manufacturing businesses shipping jobs overseas to China, with its low worker wages and low environmental standards. China typically forces businesses wanting to locate factories in its country to transfer their technology and intellectual property to Chinese firms, which can then use that to undercut competitors in global markets, with state support.
Congress has been working itself into a lather about China for years now, and they finally came up with a way to deal with this issue. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bob Casey (D-PA) have the flagship bill, which would either prohibit U.S. companies from investing in “sensitive technologies” in China, including semiconductors and artificial intelligence, or set up a broad notification regime around it.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-12-20-government-shutting-down-elon-musk-factories-china/
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STUDY: POLITIFACT SAYS REPUBLICANS LIE MORE - THE FACT-CHECKING ORGANIZATION POLITIFACT HAS FOUND REPUBLICANS TO BE LESS TRUSTWORTHY THAN DEMOCRATS, ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/study-politifact-says-republicans-lie-more-164943
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