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High Taxes and the growing threat from the CCP are two of the biggest challenges facing Americans and as the 118th Congress begins with a new Republican majority, these issues will be at the top of my agenda.
We’ll start by kicking the government’s tax-and-spend addiction. As soon as possible, I will re-introducing legislation to defund the Biden Administration’s $80 billion plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents targeting middle-class families with a flood of audits. In the coming days I will also introduce legislation to stop the government snooping on American's finances and protect independent contractors.
America faces many foreign adversaries, but none pose a greater threat than the CCP. As a member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, I will continue to highlight the CCP's human rights abuses and efforts to spy on Americans and steal our technology. In the 117th Congress, we made a good first step in the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by starting an assessment of LOGINK to prevent the CCP from meddling in our supply chains or spying on our armed forces.
Working together, we achieved many successes for Orange County, getting many legislative priorities enacted into law. When the supply chain crisis and bureaucratic mismanagment emptied the shelves nationwide of baby formula, I introduced legislation requiring the government to make a plan to prevent this kind of crisis from happening again. I introduced legislation to form a task force to address the ship backlog at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and prevent future disruptions, this proposal was included in the NDAA and became law on December 23. I promised progress on local environmental priorities like the Surfside-Sunset sand replenishment and Newport Beach dredging projects and worked day-and-night to secure over $23 million for the restoration of our beaches. To ensure academic fairness and stand up to discrimination, I submitted an amicus brief in two Supreme Court cases challenging affirmative action, and introduced legislation to require transparency from universities that discriminate against Asian Americans on the basis of race.
My team helped over 3,000 constituents navigate federal agencies and returned over $19 million dollars directly to taxpayers.
Looking back on the last two years, I am proud to have kept my promises.
These are just some of the many wins we secured for Southern California families. However, high taxes, skyrocketing costs, and increasingly hostile foreign adversaries continue threatening our way of life... |