Trump tariff spike fuels new House bill to lock China out of US government tech

FIRST ON FOX: A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers is moving to guarantee the U.S. authorities is escaped from Chinese-made exertion aft President Donald Trump hiked tariffs against Beijing.

Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, is starring the Securing America’s Federal Equipment (SAFE) Supply Chains Act alongside Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.

It would enforce caller guardrails connected the exertion the U.S. authorities is capable to acquisition by forcing a national bureau oregon bureau to lone acquisition it from "original instrumentality manufacturers" oregon "authorized resellers," according to the measure substance obtained by Fox News Digital.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump, right (Getty Images)

The measure targets U.S. authorities exertion purchased done the "gray market," an alternate transmission for purchasing and selling genuine goods without the authorization of the manufacturer.

Fallon said his measure "dovetails" with Trump's hawkish stance connected China.

"With the rising menace posed by Chinese aggression, not lone successful the Indo-Pacific, but present astatine location by means of artificial intelligence and cyberattacks, it’s captious that the Department of Defense unafraid its captious infrastructure," Fallon explained to Fox News Digital. 

"In bid to bash so, we indispensable guarantee that the U.S. subject lone purchases physics instrumentality from approved vendors that are escaped from adversarial, peculiarly [Chinese Communist Party], influence."

Rep. Pat Fallon questions witnesses during a House Oversight and Reform Committee proceeding connected the U.S. confederate borderline successful the Rayburn House Office Building Feb. 7, 2023, successful Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

He praised Trump's "bold leadership" successful the U.S. "breaking its dependency connected Communist China."

"The SAFE Supply Chains Act dovetails with this endeavor and is successful the champion involvement of U.S. nationalist security," helium said.

The White House said Thursday it had imposed 145% successful caller tariffs connected China, up from the 125% Trump announced the time before.

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While hiking rates connected China, Trump said helium would trim tariffs connected other countries that did not retaliate against the U.S. to his baseline of 10%.

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"Look, for years we've been ripped disconnected and taken vantage of by China — and others, successful each fairness — but by China, there's a large one. And it's conscionable 1 of those things," Trump said Wednesday.

Fallon's measure has a counterpart successful the Senate led by senators John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Gary Peters, D-Mich.