Chuck Schumer Asked Point Blank About Chinese Companies Buying 'Huge Swaths' Of American Land

At a press briefing on Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about a new initiative to outcompete the Chinese Communist Party.

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[andymahner]

They shouldn't be able to buy one centimeter of our property

[lynnetheridge]

Buy our land back and show them the boat🇺🇸

[poodledog]

This criminal needs to step down. He's been in, too in Washington

[geneticsmatter]

Chuck Schumer ✡️
Jerry Nadler ✡️
Diane Feinstein ✡️

[maelestepa]

Rich Chinese are buying land and houses in cash.

[johnqpublic]

Did Schumer run that by Swalwell? He has intimate knowledge of Chinese issues.

[grundy]

This guy loves China so much, he should go live there.

[lynnetheridge]

Not one more inch! They have way to much already’

[richielittlewood]

Blah blah blah chuckie . His pockets are getting a little light and needs to fill em up 😮 .

[andymahner]

Is it talking about spending more money that we don't have

[picklesgherkin]

I don't see how he can sleep at night or anyone else for that matter that knows what they're doing to this country ...sad

[claybowcutt]

only citizens of this country should be able to own land in this country.

[flingmonkey]

We need to end the "The Sky Is Falling" panic over climate change, which is a non-problem. Yeah, a lot of people have made BIG BUCKS off the hysteria, but it is time to return to reality now.

[BustinRootz]

No foreign government should ever own any land in another country especially ours

[christineandrews]

How can he say that with hundreds of them going to our border.

[yepyep]

It's free country NOT a free market duh!

[trevorer]

As long as "The Big Guy" gets his 10%, everything is going to be just fine . . .

🙄

[goosecouple]

If the owners of this country don't care, then don't expect the servants to care.

[love]

Why are we failing this bad! This is truly unexcusable. What in the world have we been doing? How could we lose focus on such essential priorities. Asleep at the wheel is a serious understatement. What else are we not seeing?

[BB--]

I guess he thinks wearing reading glasses when he's not reading makes him look smart. He'd be wrong