Cruz highlighted the non-profit Energy Foundation China, a non-profit headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Beijing, citing its members’ ties with the Chinese government and ruling party.
“This is not remotely a grass-roots non-profit. It is a foreign policy weapon disguised as philanthropy run by Communist Party operatives,” he said.
Democrats were quick to push back on his claims, with Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse, ranking member of the subcommittee on federal courts and oversight, lodging his own accusations.
“This hearing is a perfect display of projection: blaming your adversary for what you are doing. Dark money? Judicial capture? Propaganda? Oh my! The fossil fuel industry would have nothing to do with those things,” he said pointedly.
