Khanna and China committee press Blanche for report on Chinese manufacturing in U.S
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, during the Action Network 35th Anniversary Convention in New York, April 8, 2026. House China select committee ranking
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, during the Action Network 35th Anniversary Convention in New York, April 8, 2026. House China select committee ranking member Ro Khanna led a bipartisan group of lawmakers pressing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for an overdue report on illegal labor practices by Chinese companies in the U.S. auto industry. In a new letter sent to Blanche on Wednesday morning and shared exclusively with CNBC, the lawmakers demanded an update on the report, which Congress commissioned earlier this year.
It comes after CNBC joined Khanna, D-Calif., on a visit to a leading auto glass manufacturer, Vitro, which accuses a Chinese competitor, Fuyao, of undercutting prices and driving out competition. Khanna was joined on the letter by Reps. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, Scott Perry, R-Pa., and Mike Kelly, R-Pa. "The stability and security of the U.S. auto supplier industrial base
is critically important," the lawmakers wrote in the letter. "As thousands of American workers in the auto manufacturing industry face job loss, companies with ties to the [Chinese Communist Party], or affiliated entities of those companies, are expanding their presence in communities across the country." The lawmakers wrote that while the Chinese companies "allege a commitment to domestic employment,
credible reports of labor trafficking, forced labor, and unlawful employment practices raise serious concerns that their true intent is not to contribute to the American job market, but to exploit it." Congress mandated the report as part of the Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior and Environment appropriations bill, which President Donald Trump signed in January
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