Because right now, they do.
These stores aren’t monitored by the Pentagon. They’re run by GNC, a supplement chain now fully controlled by a Chinese state-owned company. Troops scan their IDs, swipe their cards, enroll in rewards programs—even share health information—and all of it goes to a company that’s legally obligated to hand it over to Beijing.
This isn’t a glitch—it’s a failure of policy, oversight, and leadership.
That’s why I introduced the Military Installation Retail Security Act:
- Bans companies owned or controlled by China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea from operating on U.S. military bases
- Terminates existing contracts with those companies
- Closes the legal loopholes that let this happen in the first place
