Updated at 4:15 p.m ET
The White House was “irresponsible” to conflate what it called the threat to U.S. elections from China with the one demonstrated since 2016 by Russia, a group of House Democrats said on Wednesday.
The minority leaders of a number of key committees said they’ve received a briefing from the Department of Homeland Security that they said makes clear President Trump and Vice President Pence are wrongly lumping Chinese influence operations in with the better-known “active measures” waged by Russia.
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