Moolenaar Questions DC Mayor on Capital's Ties to the CCP

Today, Congressman John Moolenaar questioned Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., about the District's troubling sister city relationship with Beijing. The questioning came as Bowser appeared before a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, which provides funding to the federal district. In response to Moolenaar's questioning, the mayor promised to review the district's sister-city relationship with Beijing.

"Our nation's capital should be a celebration of our nation's founding principles and the inalienable rights we enjoy as Americans. Having a sister city relationship with Beijing is a betrayal of those values and the District should end this relationship immediately. I hope that one day the liberties we enjoy as Americans will be enjoyed by the Chinese people, but until that day comes, Washington D.C. should stand for freedom and not with the Chinese Communist Party," said Moolenaar, after the hearing.

Washington, D.C. and Beijing first established a sister city relationship in 1984.

A full video of Moolenaar's questioning can be found here.