Freshman GOP lawmaker targets 'propaganda' from top adversary in first bill of congressional career

FIRST ON FOX: Freshman GOP Congressman Abe Hamadeh has introduced his archetypal portion of authorities arsenic a lawmaker aimed astatine combatting the Chinese communist government’s power successful the halls of Congress. 

Hamadeh, who was sworn successful to correspond Arizona’s 8th Congressional District successful Congress past month, introduced a measure that would prohibit China Daily and different CCP-backed publications from House facilities and spoke to Fox News Digital astir his reasoning for the move. 

"The archetypal time I came into my office, I looked and I had a clump of newspapers connected my table from the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and included successful it was The China Daily," Hamadeh told Fox News Digital. "And, you know, I'm looking astatine it like, ‘Why bash we get the China Daily?’ And aft researching it, we discovered that this was a Chinese communist owned paper that's a registered overseas agent."

"And I conscionable find it unacceptable that it's being passed astir the halls of Congress for free, utilizing our interior message system, utilizing 3rd parties to walk retired the propaganda. So, honestly, it was my archetypal invited to Congress and that's benignant of wherefore I deliberation I honed successful connected it to beryllium my archetypal portion of authorities due to the fact that I don't deliberation we should person overseas propaganda successful the halls of Congress."

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The authorities would telephone connected the Chief Administrative Officer of the House to instantly cease the organisation of CCP state-run media worldly and restrict the dispersed of the materials connected House email portion inactive allowing members to support backstage entree if they wish.

Hamadeh told Fox News Digital that the "reason wherefore the Chinese are doing it is due to the fact that they cognize that they tin power members of Congress, they tin power their staff."

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"You spot connected Capitol Hill, it's filled with a batch of young staffers who are energetic, but they whitethorn not cognize that this work is owned by a overseas adversary of ours," Hamadeh said. "

So, you know, the communist Chinese, it's accusation warfare that they're conducting connected us,psychological operations and there's a crushed wherefore they're passing it retired for free. They're trying to power the highest echelons of the United States authorities and it's unacceptable."

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China Daily has drawn the ire of conservatives implicit the past fewer years including disapproval from past GO Sen. Marco Rubio, who is present Trump's Secretary of State, who past twelvemonth called connected mainstream media CEOs to sever ties with the English-language paper owned by the CCP.

Rubio said China Daily's extremity is to "subvert U.S. quality media by amplifying the goals and ambitions of the party." The outlet has published respective articles claiming the U.S.'s "anti-China" reporting connected the persecution of Xinjiang Uyghurs is an "outright lie."

"I privation to get a ballot connected the grounds to spot what different members of Congress, however they consciousness astir a overseas work similar the China Daily being passed to their offices," Hamadeh told Fox News Digital. "Nobody is saying that they don't person to work the China Daily if they privation to work it connected their ain privately, if they privation to wage for a subscription, that's fine. But to person it passed astir done payer dollars is unacceptable and to person them walk it astir utilizing our resources is unacceptable."

Hamadeh told Fox News Digital helium hopes to person bipartisan enactment for his measure to escaped Congress of "foreign propaganda."

"Remember what Joe Biden was truthful focused on, helium got escaped of the New York Post astatine the White House, 1 of the oldest newspapers successful beingness successful the United States," Hamadeh said. "He got escaped of The New York Post. And yet present we are allowing the China Daily to freely run successful the halls of Congress. It's unacceptable."

"We recognize that communist China is simply a threat. I recognize it precise good successful Arizona. My territory has each the Taiwanese companies moving into the territory distant from the sphere of China's power for a reason. So, you know, this is simply a start. There is evidently authorities retired determination that radical are doing astatine a authorities level and adjacent astatine the national level. Some of them are trying to prohibition the quality for the communist Chinese to bargain our farmlands and to bargain onshore adjacent our cardinal assets similar subject bases. This is communal sense, and that's wherefore I'm introducing it, due to the fact that it should beryllium an casual it should beryllium an casual solution to pass."