{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/2026/09/21/icymi-slotkin-presses-trump-on-chinas-role-in-iran-war-ahead-of-thursday-state-visit/", "ICYMI:\u00a0Slotkin Presses Trump\u00a0on China\u2019s Role in Iran War Ahead of\u00a0Thursday\u00a0State Visit", "2026-09-21", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "MI", "Elissa Slotkin", "S001208", "www.slotkin.senate.gov", "slotkin", "https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/newsroom/", "scraper", "As Trump Prepares to Host Xi, China Aides Iran in Conducting Lethal Attacks on Americans\n\nWASHINGTON D.C. \u2014 Last week, CBS News reported that U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to President Trump urging him to make Chinese support for Iran\u2019s military a centerpiece of his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during Xi\u2019s state visit to Washington this week.\n\nThe letter cites a Wall Street Journal report that Iran acquired high-resolution satellite images of a U.S. base in Jordan from Chinese companies both before and after a July attack that killed three American service members and wounded four others. Asked whether he would raise the issue with President Xi, the President said, \u201cI think he\u2019s behaved reasonably well.\u201d\n\n\u201cI have many concerns about your China policy and President Xi\u2019s state visit to Washington next week,\u201d wrote Slotkin. \u201cYour insistence on rolling out the red carpet for our adversaries and kicking our allies in the teeth is beyond me. But I would hope, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, the provision of targeting information by China to help Iran kill American servicemembers would be something even you can\u2019t tolerate. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case.\u201d\n\nSlotkin urged the President to make clear to President Xi that this support \u201cmust stop immediately.\u201d She also called on the President to provide troops, military families, and the American public with a clear accounting of the actions he will take to protect U.S. forces.\n\n\u201cFor months, we have known that Chinese companies are helping the Iranian military target and attempt to kill U.S. troops,\u201d continued Slotkin. \u201cBut new reporting now shows that this support from China may have directly contributed to the deaths of American servicemembers.\u201d\n\nSlotkin\u2019s letter criticizes Trump\u2019s decision to enter this war with Iran without congressional authorization, noting that 18 American service members have been killed so far and more than 820 have been wounded.\n\nRead the CBS News story here.\n\nThe full text of the letter is available here.", 1, "2026-09-22T09:42:49Z", "2026-09-22T09:44:35Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/2026/09/21/icymi-slotkin-presses-trump-on-chinas-role-in-iran-war-ahead-of-thursday-state-visit/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6846950855106115, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}