{"id":24454,"date":"2025-11-24T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=24454"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:57:10","slug":"house-intel-chief-warns-foreign-actors-conspiring-to-sow-discord-inside-us-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=24454","title":{"rendered":"House Intel Chief Warns Foreign Actors Conspiring To \u2018Sow Discord\u2019 Inside US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump has declared that \u201cforeign interests\u201d are attempting to get his tariffs struck down at the U.S. Supreme Court as a way to \u201cmeddle\u201d in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. If the Supreme Court strikes down his tariffs, the president warned that we would have to repay hundreds of billions of dollars to other countries.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose opposing us are serving hostile foreign interests that are not aligned with the success, safety, and prosperity of the USA. They couldn\u2019t care less about us. I look so much forward to the United States Supreme Court\u2019s decision on this urgent and time sensitive matter so that we can continue, in an uninterrupted manner to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe full benefit of the Tariffs has not yet been calculated in that many of the buyers of goods and products, in order to avoid paying the Tariffs in the short term, \u2018STOCK UP\u2019 by purchasing far more inventory than they can use. That heavy inventory purchase is now, however, wearing thin, and soon Tariffs will be paid on everything they apply to, without avoidance, and the amounts payable to the USA will SKYROCKET, over and above the already historic levels of dollars received,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n

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Rick Crawford, R-Ark., who is in charge of the House Intelligence Committee, is pushing for big changes to how spy agencies do their jobs. He says that foreign agents are working with Americans to destabilize and divide the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is a whole network of both state and non-state actors that bring that to bear here in the United States, that is to exploit any kind of political divide that might exist, or schisms that may exist, even within a political party,\u201d Crawford told Just the News in a\u00a0wide-ranging interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo they kind of help sow discord. We\u2019ve seen malign influence from state actors that include China, Russia, and Iran. But then there\u2019s also the non-state actors that can be doing the bidding of a nation state,\u201d Crawford said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor example, what if you had, let\u2019s say Russia was essentially paying for cyberattacks against certain targets, or that China might be doing the same thing,\u201d Crawford added. \u201cChina might be mobilizing the diaspora that lives here in the United States, maybe United States citizens, but they have this underlying allegiance to the mother country and China seeks to exploit that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford added that the increasing cooperation between overseas bad actors and those on U.S. soil makes it a question of national security to push for counterintelligence reforms right away.<\/p>\n

He praised FBI Director Kash Patel for doing a \u201ctremendous job\u201d in the intelligence community by coming up with new ideas and ways of doing things, and he urged other agencies to do the same.<\/p>\n

Crawford cited a recent episode involving Chinese figures on U.S. soil in Michigan as an example of the sort of changing approach foreign adversaries are taking.<\/p>\n

Crawford\u2019s statements come at a time when the Treasury Department, IRS, and FBI are working harder to find out how foreign groups are utilizing U.S. tax laws and tax breaks to pay for and promote violence and disruption in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, said on Monday that the Trump administration is sure it will win its trade lawsuit in front of the Supreme Court. The issue is about new tariffs that the White House claims are required to protect American manufacturing from unfair competition from abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cTariffs are going to be a part of this administration\u2019s national security and national economic protection of the American people,\u201d Lutnick told Fox Business\u2019 Maria Bartiromo on \u201cMornings with Maria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are gonna win the case, it\u2019s pretty clear,\u201d he said, adding that he attended the oral arguments at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

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When asked what options the president has if the Court rules against the administration, Lutnick said President Donald Trump has \u201call sorts of policies and tools\u201d available, referencing provisions in U.S. trade law such as Sections 232, 301, and 338, which allow the government to impose tariffs or other restrictions in the name of national security or to counter unfair trade practices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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