Today I introduced my first official bill as a U.S. Senator. It will ban Chinese vehicles from entering the U.S. and ban Chinese parts that transmit Americans' personal data back to Beijing.
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Chinese vehicles have not yet arrived on our shores, but they have eaten up market share in Europe and Mexico — and their collection of American data is a national security threat.
You know what the best national security protection is for the automotive industry? Making a better vehicle. You are disincentivizing American car manufacturers from producing a better and more affordable vehicle. Congrats.
I care more that this administration seems on breaking every promise & guarantee to refugees this nation has ever given.
I want you to have the courage to call out this obscene racism for what it is.
What exactly is the “correct ratio” of white to brown people that will make MAGA happy and “safe”?
You mean like the models Buick builds in South Korea and CHINA? Not all your constituents are ignorant of the multinational manufacturing process used by the so-called Detroit 3.
While you are busy representing your few conservative voters in Michigan, how about you represent the liberals that actually put you in office? Our data is already compromised and probably for sale by doge, can you maybe address THAT?
no one cared about selling Pokemon Go to the Saudis and now they literally have so much data on the movement of our population on an hour by hour basis
They also use the app to collect detailed information about specific buildings and that to build a massive geospatial database. They purposefully direct users to areas otherwise inaccessible by cars to get imagery from all possible angles.
Because she used to work for the CIA. She knows what she used to do with data collections done by US-friendly companies. Wouldn’t want to make her old coworkers have to actually go out and do gumshoe work.
maybe American companies should learn to compete with Chinese companies in a free market, instead of benefiting from your obnoxious protectionism and sinophobia
slotkin loves having doge in every american's personal data i guess, that's the only thing i can take away from this
skeeting this makes it so completely evident you have neither relevant expertise nor public awareness (or you're so deep in someone's pockets you don't care either way)
“I admit the bill is not for an actual threat that we are facing but what do you want me to do? Actually address the real problems happening right now?”
30, sadly. Slotkin just started and has managed to be the most disappointed I've been in a Michigan Senator this year (pretty high bar to clear with Peters)
Maybe you could stop American cars from collecting and selling all of our data. You could focus on that real, ongoing privacy threat to Americans from cars sold right now in America. How about a good national right to privacy law?
You really came to the "We left twitter because of the Nazis" site and hit the ground running with a pointless bill that marks you as part of the problems with this country, rather than try to stem the tide of facism, or at least not add to the clown show that is our government.
If you actually cared about national security like you are claiming here, you would be pushing to not let ANY company collect our data and definitely not to be able to sell it to anyone.
Your propaganda is garbage as are your politics, Senator.
What are you doing about the fascist takeover of this country, the kidnapping of people off the street without due process, the gutting of the SSA? You are pathetic.
Very disappointed in your priorities and votes to confirm nominees to the current administration. Bipartisanship is a threat to our national security right now, as is the SAVE Act and the dismantling of SSA, USAID, the DOE, etc.
"This quantity would also appear to include a fair number of Democratic politicians, who are angling for a way to cleave a path to bipartisanship with what is obviously a hostile criminal enterprise."
insisting on being a xenophobic do-nothing piece of shit. how bout you focus on the constitutional crisis of the admin violating court orders. or the massive economic catastrophe were facing with tariffs. or any number of other real issues that threaten our lives instead of this bullshit
We transitioned from manufacturing to a service and finance industry because we were the preeminent super power on the planet. The loss of manufacturing isn't the problem, but the fact that capital holders have hoarded more and more over 60+ years, crushing our livelihoods and security, is. GFY.
Wait until you hear about the dozens of international data brokers who collect everyone's sensitive data and sell it to everyone (including chinese intelligence) because congress is too corrupt to pass an internet era privacy law
Im starting to understand elected Dems better. They understand your point, they understand it reflects reality, is even "true" but I think it feels to them less REAL than how good they think their messaging is
This is why they're so useless now. Tammany Hall pols knew they were lying to you
These assholes forget. They think the truth doesn't win elections and winning elections is what matters so for them the most important thing is what polls best and is "feasible" (acceptable) to stakeholders. You might be right in a sense but you're wrong about whether it's "possible".
And with the current trade war started by your favorite orange president we’re not going to see them anytime soon. So thanks for nothing. Why not a bill introducing data privacy laws that protect our data whether it’s our cars or tik tok? Is our data actually what you’re concerned with?
Meta, X, Google, and as of late Doge collect/sell more data than users know AND are real, proven national security threats Elissa! Have you opened your mouth about any of these homegrown platforms to date Elisa?! Pls get tf real and read the gatdam room Elissa!
So, Chinese aren't already collecting American data from cars made in US, Canada, Germany and Japan?
If US is serious about making consumers' cars secure from hacking, we'd go back to cars that aren't overly electronic, and can't be accessed over the internet or any other wireless connection.
Since you can't possibly be THAT stupid, I assume you're just another cowardly spineless Dem. I hope AOC starts a new party that actually fights for the American people.
So what about all the data Musk and DOGE are collecting by raiding Federal databases and being exactly fuck-all transparent about what they’re doing with it?
Where’s your legislation on that data and privacy security?
How is it possible for a human person to be this oblivious? Like, how many times have you almost died falling down an open manhole cover or construction site?
Not sure if you've been following the news. I know you and your party are busy doing a lot of nothing, but right now there's a 145% tariff on Chinese goods, so probably not a lot of shipments coming in. Oh, yea, and US companies have been stealing and leaking our data for over a decade. So, maybe FO
Girl, be for real. Go deal with real problems like I don’t know, kidnappings to El Salvadoran gulags or perhaps the internal coup taking place? Protecting people’s right to vote? NOT approving $2t in tax cuts? Like come the fuck on.
Nobody's asking for this. Our country is being dismantled and you're worried about a product that's not even sold here. You're a horrible, horrible Senator and I'm so pissed you represent me.
Give me an effing break. Are “Chinese” cars better and more affordable than US cars? Why as consumers are they not available in our market you xenophobic twit.
god damn have you creeps ever considered doing ANYTH creative with the power we invest in you?
you people are literally worse than worthless, you are very expensive.
So? Now China is the bad guy for buying up markets that are for sale? Isn’t that the avaricious American way? There are so many more important things to worry about. Like voting rights. That treason weasel probably sold the data to China
but seriously, just be honest - you're from michigan, this is just protectionism for the big 3 and tesla. three of which aren't competitive and one of which is run by the people you're allegedly fighting. this bill is a joke.
No one whose been in the CIA should ever be allowed to represent people in office. You were part of the U.S.'s terror squad and now you're fucking over the people you supposedly represent.
All so you and Gary Peters can get your checkbooks filled by your corporate overlords. Fuck you both
know a lot of people here are telling you that you suck shit and are a symbol for a totally dead and ineffective democratic party but i just wanted to say this: they’re right
Senator Hot Garbage: "No see those are good ol' Merrican companies so it's fine if they sell your data to the highest bidder! Now fall for my fearmongering and flagwaving!"
Market share? Thats the car company's problem. Y'all don't step in to make sure my labor doesn't get edged out by AI, why should you step in to make sure their profits don't shrink? Who the fuck do you think you work for?
National security threat? With an unvetted Ketamine addict like Musk and his teenage flying monkeys ripping through the most sensitive data in the USA? Do me a favour. I'd trust the Chinese more, and that ain't saying much.
Volvo is majority owned by a chinese company and sells models with 75% chinese content. GM used to sell the envision with 90% chinese content. You might want to revise your statement that chinese cars have not arrived on our shores
Yep. Geely owned 80% of it and then Volvo sold even more off so it’s likely over 90% Chinese now. I’ve driven Teslas and there’s no comparison on quality. Teslas are chintzy econoboxes with the illusion of luxury. My Polestar actually feels like a premium built car.
"thank god we couldn't buy a Chinese EV" I proudly say to myself, moments before an ICE thug caves my brain in with a club at the gulag I'm being held at for once tweeting "I don't think we should kill Palestinians"
🧵 If you think data collection by Chinese car is a potential threat, I have some really bad news for you about Meta, Tesla, Starlink, Amazon, and maybe thousands of companies, American and not.
The information they gather about us gets packaged and sold in an unregulated marketplace that is fully open to the Chinese government, and it can cross borders without tariffs or checks.
So if your concern is really about data collection as a threat to national security, why not sponsor privacy legislation that protects us from having our data collected and sold without our consent? Rules that would apply to all companies, so that when when a seemingly benign immigrant...
buys a bunch of companies that become critical to national security and then turns Nazi, we don't have to retroactively fret about what he has on us all?
Musk and his DOGE destroyers have just brazenly collected ALL "American data" for their own targeted fascist abuse against us and you pretend the problem is China?
Neoliberals were not made for these times. In fact, they enabled them.
Democrat voters: We hate Elon Musk and we are going to protest at Tesla dealerships!
Democrat senators: Let’s help Elon Musk prop up Tesla sales by keeping better made EVs made by China out of the country.
Ok but let the consumers decide what car is best for them, and she can pitch a bill that restricts data harvesting from car owners that apply to all manufacturers.
This is some bullshit, and you know it. Elon and "DOGE" are violating our privacy and security. People are being kidnapped for not having the right thoughts. I'm worried about the homegrown fascism that you're not facilitating every time you confirm another Trump nom. Stop bullshitting us.
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You’re a fucking fool if you think this is the fight that needs to be fought. That, or you’re just complicit in what’s happening with the rest of the government.
I thought competition bred ingenuity? Did we hedge our taxpayer funded subsidies too heavily on a company that has consistently underperformed for some reason?
I'm sure that's true. But Elon Musk is a threat to our national security, too. And y'all have no problem with letting him have all of our citizen's data (and great government contracts as well). So, excuse me, but I'm just not getting this.
Aligning with fascism may seem like a good idea in the short term, but fascist regimes always fall and while they're operating they cannibalize their own as paranoia about the inevitable toppling of the regime grows.
This will not save you. Be a good person instead. Join the fight against fascism.
Canada banned Chinese cars on Uas advice. Than US stabbed Canada in the back. Why should Canadians protect US car interest. When we can buy cheap Chinese EVs.
It’s very telling that you won’t enforce blanket privacy. I don’t care if it is Zuckerberg, google, or china. If it is important for privacy then none should have it.
You are either a xenophobic moron or useful idiot.
Useless theatre. How about making better cars that can compete? BYD is making amazing advances in EVs and the US manufacturing is making the same old stuff. How about sponsoring a bill focused on R&D to compete.
I had to look up what party you're from right now because I was almost positive you're a Democrat yet you are spewing racist invective and whipping up fear like it's the '80s and like you're a Republican
That’s because the Overton Window has been creeping toward right wing authoritarianism/fascism. Because money/capitalism. The states do not have “liberals” like the rest of the world.
Why are you wasting your time on this when you could be standing up to the people in our own government who are actively stealing our data and wrecking our economy???
If sitting at a table with a Nazi makes you one, working directly for their racist and authoritarian goals and schmoozing on their propaganda platform certainly does.
Actually just leave. Delete your posts like Adobe and run back to twitter where people will actually appreciate your racist BS and trump support (oops Tautology!)
For goodness' sake, you posted a /fox news/ interview on here. Seriously. Leave. We do not want you or anyone who would want you here.
THIS is what you have chosen is important enough to write your first bill on?! Wow you must really not want to be re-elected. So fucking out of touch. We are losing EVERYTHING and you decide this is what’s important. Loser shit right here, babe🖕🏻
Gods, you are the dumbest fucking trash I've seen on here for a long time. 'phile this one under "racist trash trying to get her constituents distracted while her party goosesteps over the constitution".
Our country is being taken over by fascists, and this is what you’re focusing on. Seriously??? Focus with the problem at home rather than adding to this stupid trade war. I don’t give a shit if china has my data. I’m more worried about musk and his stupid doge and their need for our personal info.
i would have thought for your first bill you would have made it something that is more relevant to the people of America most of whom can not afford a new car, from China or anywhere else.
if this is the best you can do then the democrat party has bigger problems coming
Instead of banning small fuel-efficient/electric cars that people want, why not push for them to be built here or for US companies to make them in the first place?
But anyhoo, we’re hurtling towards a society that won’t be able to afford cars anyway, so you’re just waisting your time, aren’t you?
Thank you Senator by helping fight back against the oligarchic authoritarian coup in our government by *doing the exact same thing as them but just slightly less*
It's another member of the Republican Lite party. I only vote for liberals, no thanks.
All anyone needs to do to get my vote is admit that we have to stand up to fascism.
I should’ve never started paying attention to U.S. politics. It’s just daily doses of misery and rage — one party of steamrolling fascists, the other a pack of limp, cowardly collaborators.
Sadly they're more or less forcing us to pay attention to their pathetic floundering, as the rest of us are at serious material risk because of it. Good job senator dipshit here has the floor.
Note to Sen Slotkin: Dems won’t be impressed or inspired by you going on Fox News and talking about how untrustworthy the Chinese government is — while our own government is doing to us what you say is worrying if China did.
This is not what you or the party should be focused on, sorry. It is a non-issue. Stop Trump first, then you can do the silly Trump-lite anti-China shit.
Why are you prioritizing this?! Chinese vehicles are cheap and well built and would be a benefit to our country. What are you doing to obstruct this administration and bring back those deported?! We’re in a constitutional crisis!
WTF is wrong with you? We’re on fire. DOJ/WH openly defying court orders, economy in free fall, people being disaeapred to out of country concentration camps, Medicaid gutted, deficits exploding, married women being disenfranchised, billions in new taxes via tarriffs and this is your priority?F you!
The richest dork in the world is stealing our personal data, gutting the Federal workforce, and killing cutting edge research into cancer, Alzheimer's, and other diseases. People are being disappeared to El Salvador. Why isn't any of that your priority? What the fuck is this nonsense?
No wonder you had to go on Fox News to peddle this xenophobic garbage. I’d love a Chinese made car Elissa. American cars suck. They’re overpriced, under-featured, and unreliable. But you don’t give a shit. You’d rather make us eat slop.
Seems to me that DOGE has far more of my “private” information than China has. Why is that okay with you? Those fools can’t even pass a legitimate background check but they’re in all our business. It’s disgraceful and so are you and your “beliefs”.
Legal residents are being disappeared, free speech is under assault, DOGE cuts are causing the deaths of thousands of people across the world. . . and you're focused on Chinese EVs. FFS
You’ve been doing pretty well lately getting the correct message out about DJT and his sycophants. Then you go and do something dumb like this. STOP LISTENING TO CONSULTANTS! ALWAYS LISTEN TO CONSTITUENTS. Ugh!
wow so you think it would be funny if US Senator Elissa Slotkin got her foot stuck in a bucket and then stepped in another bucket and then a bucket fell on her head and she fell out a window? That’s funny to you??
Waste of time. The tariffs are already blocking this and protecting our automakers from Chinese competition when they’re already behind will just put us further behind.
American companies already harvest our data and sell it all over the world including to China. China already has our data because incompetent feckless politicians like you put forth performative bullshit bills like this instead of addressing the root issues. Protect our data domestically first.
1. Beijing already has my SF85 info AND my fingerprints, courtesy of OPM not securing their shit.
2. Beijing has done a much better job keeping this info safe than, say, Experian or any of the other US companies that have lost my data.
3. Your bill could suck less if you actually wanted it to.
Does this have anything to do with the fact that Chinese EVs are far superior in quality, drive distance and battery charge speed to Teslas? I bet it does.
Elissa prefers our personal data be bought and sold by Elon Musk to the highest bidder for whatever nefarious or profit making reasons the fascist regime decides.
This sort of protectionism doesn't help advance our country. It only allows domestic automakers to continue to produce overpriced vehicles with old technology. The correct way to address this is to incentivize automakers to build better cars that people can afford.
You're a fucking toothless moron...all the fucked up, inhumane and unconstitutional Bullshit this administration is doing to us, Americans & immigrants and you go "BRRRRR CHINA!"
Because our fossil fuel fascist government would have drafted that bill itself to deny affordable EVs & push national security propaganda while endangering our entire country existentially.
How about bolstering US EV creation instead of manipulating markets. Chinese EVs are affordable (B4 tariffs) and well made. Tired of establishment Dems working AGAINST the working class
We already effectively have a ban. We’ve had a 100% tariff on them that makes it impossible to sell them here.
Well, now it’s at 145%.
Why are you doing anything that is in line with Trump?
The real reason they won’t let Chinese cars in this country is because they’re better and half the price of anything we could sell it would destroy our auto industry. Between pensions and union wages, American companies wouldn’t be able to keep up
I mean hasn't our personal data already been stolen by DOGE? and as to your comments about "keeping" the military apolitical - that ship has sailed. I want to like you Sen. Slotkin but please adjust your calendar to today and deal with life as it is at present.
Are you crazy? Musk destroying the government from within and trump from without and you’re focusing on this? Take care of the domestic fascists first. And STOP voting for his nominees, for gods sake.
Great...I don't understand why she's in a propaganda channel. She's not Pete buttigieg making statements, she's just trying to play nice with Nazis.
Also, that just means Peters is probably going to vote for it. ( These 2 play sick games ).
Yay, more performative 🗑️ that won’t persuade 1 young person who voted Trump in 2024 to vote Dem in 2026! Great job Elissa! This is absolutely what you should be using your time on. Not the fact their EV’s are better than all of ours or they can get our data whenever. Nah. Keep this up. Good stuff.
Your first official bill and it is a lousy effort to further escalate Trumps trade war based on xenophobia and being paid by car lobbyists? Please go away, you are an absolute embarrassment.
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But the biggest threat is from doge.
I want you to have the courage to call out this obscene racism for what it is.
What exactly is the “correct ratio” of white to brown people that will make MAGA happy and “safe”?
they already have the data
this is just jingoism that plays into the hands of the Trump admin
like...grow up
Any plans on addressing that?
skeeting this makes it so completely evident you have neither relevant expertise nor public awareness (or you're so deep in someone's pockets you don't care either way)
Seriously, go fuck yourself
Thembo for Senate 20whatever
Or you could grandstand against something that is already banned in the nation.
Tone deaf, smh
Your propaganda is garbage as are your politics, Senator.
she needs to be recalled.
step down
This is why they're so useless now. Tammany Hall pols knew they were lying to you
DOGE also WILL leak IRS and social security data if it has it.
Also the data brokers datasets include serving military. Combine it all for fun opportunities to bribe/blackmail military staff.
We don’t care about money more than people. It’s about time you behave like it too.
You know anyone who could help with that?
The time for data privacy legislation was 20 years ago. I’m more worried about Zuck than anyone else, you twit.
Read the room, you incompetents.
They really haven't.
Yours,
A European
Instead you're going to give a win to Trump like a tremendous fool.
If US is serious about making consumers' cars secure from hacking, we'd go back to cars that aren't overly electronic, and can't be accessed over the internet or any other wireless connection.
So what about all the data Musk and DOGE are collecting by raiding Federal databases and being exactly fuck-all transparent about what they’re doing with it?
Where’s your legislation on that data and privacy security?
you people are literally worse than worthless, you are very expensive.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE
Introduce legislation to stop THAT.
Fuck me! How did you all become so incredibly tone-deaf?
Chinese EVs are vastly superior to the American made crap. BYDs are so much better than Teslas and significantly more affordable.
All so you and Gary Peters can get your checkbooks filled by your corporate overlords. Fuck you both
I'd like cheap chinese electric cars, actually. Maybe some day.
And I agree with many others here that we need actual privacy protections, and not blatant protectionism.
Neoliberals were not made for these times. In fact, they enabled them.
Democrat senators: Let’s help Elon Musk prop up Tesla sales by keeping better made EVs made by China out of the country.
Angela Padilla Assistant Vice President/LR Manager for Bank of America
B of A Failures to expose their Unemployment Disability Benefits Card Fraud
Sen Alex Padilla Gov Accountability Office CIGIE -SSA OIG SSA investigate attorneys
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(its DOGE. DOGE is the bad thing. China isnt)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327
#DemsAreComplicit
This will not save you. Be a good person instead. Join the fight against fascism.
You are either a xenophobic moron or useful idiot.
But ford can sell my data to china no problem!
Buick finally had cars Americans wanted to buy - then came tariffs - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/buick-finally-had-cars-americans-wanted-buy-then-came-tariffs-2025-04-19/
Brilliant. You introduced a bill to fucking protect Elon you useful idiot. Well done. You’ve assisted Nazis.
Fucking Vichy Democrats, I swear.
For goodness' sake, you posted a /fox news/ interview on here. Seriously. Leave. We do not want you or anyone who would want you here.
China having are driving info is better than Elon having it.
Ban all telemetry from all cars if you car about American privacy
Meanwhile in the EU they're negotiating with China to get EVs into the market that are affordable and actually fucking work
What are you doing about Elon & the Incel Clown Posse's stealing our Social Security and bank account data from the SSA?
if this is the best you can do then the democrat party has bigger problems coming
But anyhoo, we’re hurtling towards a society that won’t be able to afford cars anyway, so you’re just waisting your time, aren’t you?
recall election is needed
This is nothing but performance art to cover for your abysmal voting record assisting the MAGAt KKKult KKKlownshow.
If the data is a threat in the hands of the CCP then it is also a threat in the hands of American companies.
All anyone needs to do to get my vote is admit that we have to stand up to fascism.
Wtf is this republican bullshit you're on?
I'm sure the one conservative voter you swing with this will offset the thousands you lose by alienating your own base.
Maybe do better?
We're fearmonhering about the Chinese, while propping up a White South African Nazi.
Elissa Slotkin!!!
No wonder you had to go on Fox News to peddle this xenophobic garbage. I’d love a Chinese made car Elissa. American cars suck. They’re overpriced, under-featured, and unreliable. But you don’t give a shit. You’d rather make us eat slop.
Okay, so I have 20/20 vision.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-china-start-talks-lifting-eu-tariffs-chinese-electric-vehicles-handelsblatt-2025-04-10/
2. Beijing has done a much better job keeping this info safe than, say, Experian or any of the other US companies that have lost my data.
3. Your bill could suck less if you actually wanted it to.
There's no hope, is there?
Will Rogers keeps on being proved right.
Slotkin ran on out MAGAing the GOP.
She is a giant sack of SHIT.
Because our fossil fuel fascist government would have drafted that bill itself to deny affordable EVs & push national security propaganda while endangering our entire country existentially.
China isn't the problem. Oligarchy is.
https://www.investors.com/news/chinese-electric-cars-americans-cannot-buy-budget-to-luxury/
Well, now it’s at 145%.
Why are you doing anything that is in line with Trump?
“The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.”
~George Carlin~
This still sucks though.
Also, that just means Peters is probably going to vote for it. ( These 2 play sick games ).