Investigating a Southern Californian Super PAC, JinkoSolar, a solar panel company, using a raid by the state’s Homeland Security Department
Instead, Ms. Haley said she would only support a gas tax increase if the state reduced the income tax rate to 5 percent, from 7 percent, and made changes to the state’s Department of Transportation.
“Nikki Haley promised South Carolina she would never support increasing taxes on gas. She broke that promise almost immediately.”— A pro-DeSantis super PAC, Never Back Down, in a post on X last week
SFA Fund is accusing DeSantis of lying about Haley’s record on China because he’s losing. The background music is also stereotypical Chinese-themed.
In June, Jacksonville’s City Council withdrew a bill that would have provided the company tax incentives to expand. A JinkoSolar representative said in a statement that the company still planned to expand.
federal officials have not provided any details of the inquiry, which appears to be related to multiple concerns. Those include whether JinkoSolar misrepresented the source of some imports containing materials from the Xinjiang region of China and incorrectly classified products, resulting in an incorrect duty rate, The New York Times has reported. JinkoSolar said that it is confident in its supply chain and that customs in the US havereviewed and released its products.
Regarding the company raided by the Homeland Security Department, Ms. Haley was referring to a solar panel company, JinkoSolar, based in China. In May, the Homeland security department executed search warrants at the factory and office.
Economic Development in Florida: A Case Study of a Military Aircraft Expansion under the Governorship of South Carolina and Trade Promotion Authority in Florida
In October last year, a Chinese company that makes military aircraft said it was expanding its locations at two airports in Florida. The first location provides aircraft sales and concierge flight training, while the other offers aircraft maintenance and management. The Orlando complex is less than 10 miles from a Navy training systems center.
This needs context. Mr. DeSantis previously served as the board chairman of a public-private economic development organization known as Enterprise Florida. The governor signed legislation earlier this year that consolidated the organization’s work into what is now the state’s Commerce Department.
“In passing T.P.A. in 2015, Congress agreed only to fast-track trade agreements that addressed tariff barriers (along with possibly nontariff barriers),” Mr. Wu said in an email, referring to the trade promotion authority bill that bolstered the president’s power to negotiate trade deals with Asia and Europe. The negotiations the United States had with China did not fall into this category. Nor did these negotiations result in any trade deals with China during the Obama administration.”
Florida records do show state agencies have spent millions in purchases from the companies, mostly Lexmark, for printers and other products, since Mr. DeSantis took office on Jan. 8, 2019. South Carolina has also worked with the companies, including under Ms. Haley’s governorship.
The China Threat to the USA: 2024 Campaign Coverage by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the New York Public Radio Radio Dispatch
The threat posed by China to the US has been on the rise, and more Americans are concerned than at any time in the last 40 years. China is being highlighted in a lot of campaign ads.
“China’s dictators want to cover the world in Communist tyranny, and we’re the only ones who can stop them,” Haley said, as the narrator said that she is “the conservative China fears the most.”
Even more has been spent on digital – nearly $26 million with more than 223,000 digital ads that have popped up. It’s even more when you consider the support Biden and his groups have for him online in China. Republicans have spent 90% of the TV ad money mentioning China but only 58% of the ads online.
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