Senators question why U.S. agency pushed out officials working on Chinese threats

Two Democratic senators asked the Commerce Department to explain why it removed an official and her deputy whose ‌office had effectively barred nearly all Chinese cars from entering the U.S. ‌market on national security grounds.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner pressed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in a letter ​seen by Reuters to answer questions on reports the department pushed out “key national security officials who were working to counter China’s intelligence and cyber threats against American technology supply chains and communications infrastructure.”

Reuters reported Elizabeth Cannon in January had agreed to resign as executive ‌director for Information and Communications ⁠Technology and Services, an office created in 2022 to investigate threats to the supply chain from foreign adversaries.

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