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WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) issued a joint statement today on President Trump’s constantly changing date on tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as his threats of new tariffs on the European Union:

WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) delivered an opening statement at the subcommittee hearing on “American Trade Enforcement Priorities.”

Video of her opening statement is available here and the text follows:

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s a pleasure to be here with you for the first time as ranking member. 

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) today demanded answers from the Trump administration on why it cut $600 million without notice for teaching preparedness programs at community colleges nationwide. 

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.), a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee, released the following statement in response to President Trump firing nearly 7,000 IRS employees:

“President Trump and Elon Musk are rigging the system to ensure that billionaires like them can get away with tax evasion while hard-working Americans are left with the tab.

WASHINGTON — Representatives Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.), Herb Conaway Jr., MD (D-N.J.), Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.), Nanette Díaz Barragán (D-Calif.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Judy Chu (D-Calif.) introduced the Expanding Child Care Access Act, a bill to provide a refundable tax credit of up to $5,000 to cover the startup expenses of new family child care businesses once they receive a state family child care license or registration.

WASHINGTON -- Representatives Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.)  and Ron Estes (R-Kan.) reintroduced the Help Independent Tracks Succeed (HITS) Act, a bill that would allow qualified sound recording producers and artists to deduct 100 percent of production expenses in the year they are incurred. This would provide parity with film, television and live theatrical productions that already benefit from this tax provision.

WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) and subcommittee members Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) and Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) led a letter with their Ways and Means Committee colleagues demanding President Trump retract his across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico before they go into effect. 

WASHINGTON – Representatives Linda T. Sánchez and Scott Peters (both D-Calif.), along with 38 of their California colleagues, today called on the Trump administration to refrain from cutting over $800 million in National Institutes of Health funding for California universities. Nationally, the administration is attempting to block more than $4 billion in NIH funding.