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🚨🚨🚨 NEW: 7 top House committee Republicans announce probe into China's infiltration of U.S. colleges

“We cannot allow a dangerous communist regime to buy access to our institutions of higher education, plain and simple” - @Jim_Jordan

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China's actions "bring into question whether [colleges] receiving federal taxpayer dollars should be allowed to accept funds from China, the CCP or other affiliated organizations"

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@Jim_Jordan
@virginiafoxx
@DevinNunes
@RepFrankLucas
@MacTXPress
@RepMcCaul
@RepMikeRogersAL

“We must work together to protect our national interests by significantly reducing our universities’ reliance on investments from adversarial foreign entities" such as the Chinese Communist Party.

-@virginiafoxx, Ranking member of @EdLaborGOP

“China’s strategic investment in our institutions of higher learning has long been a concern. Esp "where China appears to be targeting institutions doing research with the Department of Defense in an effort to obtain sensitive information.” - @MacTXPress, RM of @HASCRepublicans

"China has shown they will stop at nothing to push their narratives and silence those who speak out against them. They are not good faith partners with the U.S., and we cannot allow them to influence or have access to our higher education.”

- @RepMikeRogersAL of @homelandgop

“If China surpasses us in critical innovations like quantum information science, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing, it will have significant implications" for America's national security and way of life.

-@RepFrankLucas, RM of @housesciencegop