Moolenaar Leads Bill to Ban DHS from Purchasing CCP Batteries

Congressman John Moolenaar, the Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is leading legislation to ban the Department of Homeland Security from purchasing batteries made by CCP companies.

“American tax dollars should never be used to further the Chinese Communist Party’s hopes to dominate key technologies at our expense. That’s why I am proud to co-lead the Decoupling from Foreign Adversarial Battery Dependence Act which would stop the Department of Homeland Security from using American taxpayer dollars to purchase Gotion, CATL, or other Chinese batteries. Our military has already banned these batteries and DHS should do the same,” said Moolenaar.

H.R. 8631 would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from procuring batteries from six companies owned and operated in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and strengthen the American supply chain away from dependence on the CCP. The legislation was passed by the House Homeland Security Committee on June 12. 

Text of the legislation can be found here.