Daily Mail By Will Potter 4/21/2023
Furious Michigan residents accuse Dem-led state senate of helping 'overthrow the US' by green lighting $2.4B plans for Chinese green energy giant to build two huge plants• The Michigan state senate was slammed for considering using taxpayer dollars to fund an electric vehicle battery plant owned by a Chinese tech company
• Furious residents condemned the proposal, which would see the Chinese subsidiary construct two 550,000 square-foot plants across 260 acres
• Despite being fiercely confronted at a public hearing, the senate's Democrat-led appropriations committee approved the plan
Furious Michigan residents slammed their Democratic state lawmakers for facilitating the construction of a Chinese-backed green energy project.
During a public hearing for the Michigan Senate's appropriations committee, locals condemned plans to use $175 million in taxpayer funds to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Big Rapids Township owned by Chinese tech company Gotion.
Despite being aggressively confronted for considering the plans, the committee went on to approve the measure in a tight 10-9 vote, with every Republican and three Democrats on the committee coming out against it.
The approval comes amid mounting focus upon China's ability to buy large amounts of farmland in the US, which both lawmakers and citizens fear could allow the nation undue influence in America.
Speaking before the committee ultimately approved the proposal, Hannah Saez, the clerk of the Big Rapids Township, told the committee she was 'gravely disappointed'.
Saez criticized the local lawmakers for falling in line behind Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who announced in October that Gotion, which is a subsidiary of China-based company Gotion High-Tech, would invest $2.4 billion to construct two 550,000 square-foot production plants across 260 acres in Michigan.
'I can attest, however, that our community is now united in ways they would have never been before. They do not want this,' Saez continued.
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