FBI Director Christopher Wray's warning Wednesday that China was ramping up an extensive hacking operation geared at taking down the United States' power grid, oil pipelines and water systems should a conflict over Taiwan occur is "nothing new," says Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y.
"We know China has been doing this for a long time. Let's just go back to the spy balloon and numerous other espionage type of actions they've taken against us, where the Biden administration has failed to act in a timely or decisive way," Tenney said Thursday during an appearance on Newsmax's "Newsline."
"And so, we continue to have them ignoring this threat from China. We have a president who is highly compromised with China involving his son and all the corruption that we're seeing, and the potential vulnerability that President Biden has, when it comes to dealing with the Chinese Communist Party payments he received indirectly from Chinese entities that are all coming out of the House Ways and Means Committee," she added.
"But all of this is very concerning and of course, China is not going to roll tanks into the United States. They're going to take down our infrastructure, and this goes back to another important issue, which is one of the — if not the — top issue, our border.
"We have seen that Chinese nationals, adult males, have been coming into the United States and if they come into New York, they can get a driver's license and drive and be anywhere they want in the United States with impunity, with that New York state-issued license in hand.
"And so this border is something that President Biden is completely ignoring. He has the power to do it not just based on the Constitution but also on Immigration Nationality Act provision 212F allowing him to stop the flow of migration immediately.
"He can do it today and stop blaming Republicans who have put a superior border bill on the board last May," she added.
"Democrats know they're weak on this and the American people are waking up. They're turning it into a political issue. It should not be a political issue. China is a threat. Iran and their proxies are a threat to the Middle East and our allies the same going on with Putin and Russia, and they are beating us in this cyber game."
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