Congressional Football Game takes heat from lawmakers over China ties: ‘We slipped up’

EXCLUSIVE — An annual football game featuring lawmakers and ex-NFL players was co-sponsored this year by an affiliate of a Chinese electric carmaker, while the organizing charity has been led by a recent lobbyist for a sanctioned Chinese military-backed company. The Congressional Football Game in Washington occurred on Sept. 28 and benefits the Capitol Police Memorial Fund, which supports “families of USCP officers killed in the line of duty, and officers who have sustained serious line-of-duty injuries,” along with other groups. But members of Congress are raising concerns over how the organizer took cash from RIDE, a subsidiary of the…