1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese Communist Party Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) United States taxpayer-funded research should not be used to benefit the People’s Republic of China, especially as China undertakes the largest theft of intellectual property in history, as was stated by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. (2) According to a Congressional Report, the Chinese Communist Party’s intellectual property theft costs the United States, and ultimately the American taxpayer, $225,000,000,000 to $600,000,000,000 worth of intellectual property every year. (3) According to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, there were more than 35,000 foreign nationals including 10,000 from China conducting research in the Department of Energy’s National Labs. (4) According to the Department of Education one university received research funding from a Chinese multinational conglomerate to develop new algorithms and advanced biometric security techniques for crowd surveillance capabilities, while another had multiple contracts with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China . (5) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate found in a November 2019 report that American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China’s global rise over the last 20 years . (6) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found that China’s government has used some students and professors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields as nontraditional collectors of intellectual property, but has also noted that the vast majority of the 1.4 million international scholars on U.S. campuses pose no threat to their host institutions, fellow classmates, or research fields. On the contrary, these international visitors represent valuable contributors to their campuses’ achievements, providing financial benefits, diversity of ideas, sought expertise, and opportunities for cross-cultural exchange .