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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Jacob Helberg to be the State Department\u2019s top economic policy and trade official, selecting a China hawk for an integral role in U.S. efforts to secure supply chains.<\/p>\n

In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump said Helberg, one of the leaders in the push to ban Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, will be \u201ca champion of our America First Foreign Policy.\u201d He added that Helberg \u201chas the knowledge, expertise, and pragmatism to defend America\u2019s Economic interests abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helberg will face a Senate confirmation process, and his current work for defense contractor Palantir \u2014 he is a senior adviser to the company\u2019s chief executive officer \u2014 may attract scrutiny from lawmakers concerned about potential conflicts of interest. But it is not expected that he will face sharp resistance from Senate Republicans, as he is not seen as a particularly polarizing figure in policy circles.<\/p>\n

Helberg, a tech executive who serves as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, has been an advocate for a more muscular policy toward Beijing. In 2023, he founded the Hill and Valley Forum<\/a>, which brings together venture capitalists and lawmakers concerned about the rise of China and its impact on the U.S. tech sector.<\/p>\n

That group was critical in his efforts to rally support for a 2024 law<\/a> that will ban TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent company \u2014 ByteDance \u2014 sells the platform by January 2025.<\/p>\n

Helberg was a major donor to Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign<\/a>. But he was previously donated to then-South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Jacob Helberg to be the State Department\u2019s top economic policy and trade official, selecting a China hawk for an integral role in U.S. efforts to secure supply chains. In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump said Helberg, one of the leaders in the push to ban Chinese-owned social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}