SOAR

At first the fund depended entirely on lawmakers appropriating money for it every time it started to run low. That changed with the passage of legislation last year that created an automatic funding mechanism through the end of Fiscal Year 2025. The new funding mechanism would run for ten years

The SOAR Fund was originally created with bipartisan support. But it has also historically faced bipartisan opposition

The Gotion Inc. project has faced criticism because of Gotion’s position as a U.S.-headquartered subsidiary of a company based in China