Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
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And they were actually funding a lot of these riot pop-ups in the area.
So you had people that were being used, divided, for example, on the immigration topic.
You literally have them passing out Mexican flags saying that they cared about immigrants when in actuality,
The financial ties are actually coming from the CCP.
So the Chinese government on many occasions, and it's not uncommon within Congress to know even on apps like TikTok, they were showing certain information in order to cause a rift and influence people.
This same individual, Neville Singham, actually, once we got this information, we sent a request to have him come testify to Congress.
And he spends part of his year in Shanghai, China.
And so we were not able to deliver him his subpoena, basically.
And so there's a letter that Chairman Comer has now authorized to be sent that will go to the Treasury Department to freeze his assets unless he comes to testify to Congress.
And that, mind you, this is not, you know, people and like, look, I started out before politics with my feet getting wet as an activist.
Like that's actually how we started out in politics.
So like I understand the immigration, the board.
I like understand all arguments because I've I've been through and I've had a debate on debate it.
But what's the problem for me is that you have foreign governments trying to cause a rift and then promote ideologies that will empower people specifically to push forward
policy that will actually put us as like second tier as opposed to the Chinese government.
And I do think that the Chinese government in their execution has been very, very specific about how they want to hinder our ability to be global dominators.
I think when you're looking at what happened in COVID timeframe, right, so like a lot of people said that
Wuhan lab leak that that was a conspiracy theory.
We now know that it happened and that was true.
But at the same time, if you look at what President Trump was doing, he was actually trying to negotiate trade with China and he was winning.