Moolenaar Leads House in Banning Tax Dollars for Gotion Research

Today, Congressman John Moolenaar, a member of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), voted for legislation to fund the Department of Energy (DOE) for 2024. Included in the bill is a policy written by Moolenaar that prohibits DOE from awarding any research funding or contracts to companies that partner with the CCP and other adversaries of the United States. The bill passed the House of Representatives.

"It is unacceptable that research funding is going to companies that work with the CCP. So I wrote this new policy to help stop it. Our country is in a competition against the CCP and we must make sure research and innovation funded by the American people benefits America and not China. Companies, including Gotion Inc., that are directly linked to the CCP have no business receiving federal research funding," said Moolenaar.

Moolenaar added the policy during the House Appropriations Committee’s consideration of the bill in June. A copy of the policy that passed the House can be found here.

In March, Gotion North America Vice President Chuck Thelen noted that his company is under contract with the Department of Energy through the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium. Gotion is a subsidiary of China-based Gotion High Tech. Gotion High-Tech, Gotion's owner established a joint venture company with a Chinese military company that the State Department identified as supporting China's military, intelligence, and security apparatuses. According to Gotion’s Foreign Agents Registration Act filing, it declared it is “whole owned and controlled by” Gotion High-Tech.