Letter to Congressional Leadership Seeking Support as Chinese Military Aggression Mounts

Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and six other members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party wrote to congressional leadership Sunday, arguing that Congress must match its funding priorities to the nation's most pressing national security priority-- deterring the Chinese Communist Party. 

Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Michelle Steel (R-CA) and Carlos Gimenez (R-FL)  also signed on to the letter sent to Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. 

The lawmakers write, "The administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy argues that we are entering a “decisive decade” for the region, while the President has warned that 'we are “facing an inflection point in history—one of those moments where the decisions we make today are going to determine the future for decades to come.' We strongly agree. 

"However, this is precisely why the resources dedicated to the Indo-Pacific in the Administration’s proposed supplemental are wholly inadequate... The Indo-Pacific, our priority theater, must not be an afterthought. In order to safeguard peace in Asia and deter conflict on a scale we have not seen in generations, we must act before it is too late. For while deterrence may be hard, war is hell. We must enhance the Indo-Pacific supplemental request and treat the CCP threat with the gravity it deserves. Our men and women in uniform, whom we may one day soon ask to step into harm’s way, deserve no less."

The lawmakers note that deterring the threat of the CCP must go further than the Biden administration’s request and include more resources for Foreign Military Financing for Taiwan, funding for U.S. Indo Pacific Command, investments in critical munitions lines, and expanded use of Presidential Drawdown Authority for Taiwan.

Read the letter HERE