Senate Democrats leading in the area of national security sounded an alarm on Monday over the Trump administration’s sale of more than 227 tons of a material used in the building of missiles to China. In their letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, the senators demanded he explains the United States’ large sale of graphite to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in September.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) all signed the letter to Ross.
