The White House accuses Senate Republicans of "literally" choosing to help China compete with the United States to protect big pharma."This takes loyalty to special interests over American workers to a shocking new height," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Thursday."We will not back down from this outrageous threat."Jean-Pierre says the rival party's leading senator, Mitch McConnell, "holds hostage" a bipartisan package that would strengthen American competitiveness with the Chinese economy.If approved, it "would provide hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in places like southern Ohio, Idaho and other states across the country" and "reduce the cost of countless products and end our dependence on imports," the spokeswoman argues.