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Pelosi Statement on Trump Administration’s Lifting Sanctions on ZTE

June 7, 2018

Contact: Ashley Etienne/Henry Connelly, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trump Administration announced it would lift sanctions on the Chinese company ZTE:

"China is eating our lunch, and President Trump is serving it to them.

"The President's ZTE agreement is another cruelly broken promise to the American people. The President campaigned on a pledge to confront China for its unfair trade practices and create jobs at home, yet he is protecting jobs in China, risking our national security and selling out our democracy by giving a massive handout to a foreign company that is a known, clear cyber-security threat.

"Far from draining the swamp, President Trump has become the swamp. The American people deserve better than the Trump Administration's rampant corruption, cronyism and incompetence, and Democrats are fighting to give them A Better Deal to Protect Our Democracy."

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