The Big Beautiful Gift to China
Well, Congress just wrapped it up, put a bow on it, and handed it to Beijing.
Today, the House passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” sending it to President Trump for his July 4 signing ceremony. It is being sold as a patriotic win for American workers. In reality, it may be the biggest, most beautiful gift we have ever given to China.
This bill guts support for electric vehicles at the exact moment the rest of the world is racing toward an all-electric future. It cuts the legs out from under U.S. automakers while our biggest competitor builds dominance in the technologies that will define the global auto market for decades to come.
As New York Times reporter Jack Ewing noted today, China already produces about 70 percent of the world’s EVs. The United States? Just 5 percent.
Yet Congress just voted to eliminate EV consumer tax credits, slash funding for U.S. battery production and mineral development, and scale back the EV charging network.
You don’t need a PhD in economics to see what comes next. If America steps back now, China steps forward. If we keep dialing down investment and letting politics replace strategy, U.S. companies will keep losing ground to cheaper, better Chinese EVs.
Ewing also reported that Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, recently called Chinese EV quality “the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen.”
At EV Politics, we have been sounding this alarm for years. This is not about ideology. It is not about climate. It is about cold, hard competitiveness. If we want American auto jobs to survive in a world that is already going electric, we cannot afford to hand Beijing the keys.
We can still fix this. But it will take real leadership and the guts to put America’s long-term strength ahead of political slogans.
Otherwise, history will remember this July 4 as the day Washington waved a white flag while delivering a big beautiful gift straight to Beijing.
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