Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley told a Code Pink activist harassing him in the hallway Wednesday that she is a “human rights violator,” calling out her organization for taking “blood money from China.”
“I think the U.S. ought to investigate your organization and maybe you for the money that you’ve taken from Chinese donors who are persecuting Uyghurs,” Hawley said in a video obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Hawley’s statement came in response to the activist’s question about whether he favors regime change in Venezuela. He pointed to a New York Times investigation tying the organization to Chinese donors.
A quarter of Code Pink’s donations since 2017 have come from groups tied to the millionaire Neville Roy Singham, who is closely affiliated with the Chinese government media, according to a 2023 NYT investigation.
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“How about Israel, is it violating the ceasefire?” the Code Pink activist asked Hawley.
“I’m pro-Israel. You hate Israel,” Hawley replied. “You love China. You take blood money from China. It’s simple.”
The activist told Hawley it was a “lie” that they take money from China, a claim reiterated on the organization’s website.
“To state it very clearly: CODEPINK is in no way funded by China, nor any other foreign government or agency,” Code Pink’s China is Not Our Enemy Campaign Coordinator wrote in April. “We are funded primarily by donations from concerned citizens that support peace over war.”
A Code Pink spokesperson told the DCNF that “volunteers who are in the halls of Congress almost every day receive absolutely no funding.”
“They not only donate their time but also their resources to come to Washington, DC, to speak out and deliver a critical message that resonates with the majority of the American public who want their tax dollars to go to helping people here at home, not hurting people overseas,” the spokesperson said.
Republican Indiana Sen. Jim Banks urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Code Pink in April over “growing evidence of Code Pink’s deep connections” to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), highlighting the group’s “demonstrated track record of operating in the interests of the CCP.”
“Code Pink routinely lobbies for conciliatory U.S. policies on China and aggressively denies reports of CCP atrocities, including the CCP’s genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang,” Banks wrote. “In January 2025, Code Pink acknowledged that it had organized a 10-day ‘community trip’ to Xinjiang—presumably on a tightly-controlled itinerary staged by the Chinese government to help communist authorities continue denying these crimes.”
Hawley told the activist she doesn’t “have the moral decency to admit to yourself that you take blood money, that you are funded by foreign groups who are persecuting minorities, Christians, Muslims.”
“You’re wearing a Palestinian flag, which tells you everything you need to know, while you take this money from China,” Hawley said as the elevator door closed. “You are morally reprehensible.”
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