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.
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