Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) released the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump did not have authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act:
“President Trump’s global tariffs were illegal from the start.
WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after the Commerce Department reported a record-high $1.2 trillion trade deficit under President Trump:
“Even the Trump administration’s own numbers expose the failure of President Trump’s trade agenda. Instead of leveling the playing field and bringing jobs home, his policies have expanded the trade deficit and cost us 108,000 manufacturing jobs.
WASHINGTON – Representatives Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.), Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) and Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) led 14 of their Ways and Means Democratic colleagues in calling on the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to investigate the leak of 47,000 taxpayers’ confidential information by the Internal Revenue Service to the Department of Homeland Security.
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, and Congressman Mike Turner (R-Ohio), head of the U.S. delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly, today introduced the Respect NATO Allies Act, a bill to require congressional approval for any new tariffs imposed on North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.
WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) today spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives encouraging her colleagues to support a resolution terminating the Trump administration’s tariffs against Canada.
Video of her remarks is available HERE and the text follows:
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) this week introduced her annual resolution to designate the week of February 2 as National School Counseling Week, an effort she has championed every year since 2008.
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) announced today that she secured more than $11.7 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2026 through the government funding packages finalized by Congress this week and signed into law last night.
The congresswoman secured funding for all 15 community projects that she requested to directly benefit her constituents and enhance the overall quality of life in her district.
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) today released the following statement after federal immigration agents shot and killed another U.S. citizen in Minnesota:
“The killing of U.S. citizens in our streets falls squarely at Trump’s feet. He is the one who unleashed federal agents to terrorize previously peaceful communities. Agents without training, accountability or respect for human life are not law enforcement – they have become hired assassins.
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) today released the following statement opposing the Homeland Security appropriations bill due to its funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement:
“ICE has been terrorizing the people I represent. I will not vote to give one more dime to President Trump’s personal secret police until it’s brought under control.
WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.), a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, released the following statement on President Trump’s announcement of new tariffs on eight NATO allies because of their opposition to U.S.-control of Greenland:
“President Trump is completely unhinged. He’s weaponizing tariffs against our closest NATO allies because they are defending the sovereignty of another NATO member.