The Shadow
Advocated to the FDA to Stop Relying on Unethical CCP Medical Data
This week I wrote to Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas and demanded that the agency stop taking Chinese clinical trial data on faith. American drug companies now build their FDA submissions on trials run inside China, a country that censors its press to protect the Chinese Communist Party’s image rather than inform the public. Its research system is no exception. The FDA sets the world’s standard for drug safety and informed consent, and that standard is slipping.
Two children died in experimental gene-editing trials in China. One sponsor went quiet for more than a year and admitted the death only after reporters pressed. Another research team hid a child’s death and published its findings anyway. Grieving families risked retaliation to tell those stories, and independent journalists chased them down. Nobody knows how many other deaths and serious adverse events never surfaced. Yet the money keeps flowing to China for the same reason manufacturing did: weak rules, low costs, fast timelines.
My letter asks the FDA to do three things: reject China-generated data for Investigational New Drug applications, New Drug Applications, and Biologics License Applications unless inspectors audited the site in person within the past 12 months; force sponsors to disclose manufacturing conditions, oversight bodies, trial design, and every serious adverse event in any foreign trial supporting a United States application; and measure how deep this dependence already runs, starting with gene editing. American families deserve treatments backed by data we can verify. We cannot outsource that to a system that does not share our values.
Celebrated the Historic Drop in Violent Crime
This week I celebrated new numbers showing a historic reduction in violent crime across the Nation. According to the FBI, violent crime overall fell 10.6 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year. Murder dropped 23.0 percent, robbery 19.6 percent, rape 18.6 percent, and aggravated assault 7.2 percent. Every major category moved in the right direction at once.
For years, Americans suffered under weak-on-crime policies that put families and communities in danger. They locked their doors, avoided certain streets, and watched their local police departments lose officers faster than they could replace them. Under the Trump Administration, police officers got support, criminals got consequences, and crime fell.
That progress holds only if we keep at it. I will keep fighting to fund the men and women who wear the badge, to secure the border that traffickers exploit, and to make sure violent offenders serve the sentences juries hand down. Safe streets are not a partisan achievement. They are the baseline every American deserves.
Cosponsored Legislation to Create a Better Immigration System
Last week I cosponsored the Americans First Immigration Act, legislation that rebuilds our legal immigration system around merit instead of luck. The bill ends the visa lottery and replaces it with a points-based model that scores applicants on skills, education, and what they bring to the American economy. This bill helps fix our immigration system by ending random selection. No more chain migration pulling in extended family with no connection to our workforce. Spouses and minor children still join families lawfully here, but the endless extension of that chain stops.
The bill ties immigration levels to what our Nation can actually absorb. It subtracts one permanent visa for every illegal alien released into the interior, so enforcement failures no longer arrive as a reward. It also ends in-state tuition for illegal aliens, a benefit many states, including Virginia, hand out while charging American citizens from out of state the higher rate. Taxpayers should not have to subsidize people who broke the law to get here while their own children pay more.
Legal immigration has always strengthened this country when we controlled the pace and chose based on merit. Under the Biden Administration, we lost control of both. This bill restores fairness and efficiency to our immigration system and furthers my push for a system built around American workers, American taxpayers, and the rule of law.
I enjoyed my tour of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, where I met CEO Kari Diener, and connected over our passion for public service. I deeply appreciate their efforts in serving our community and feeding some of the Sixth District’s grateful residents.
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