WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) released the following statement on the reversion of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) programs:
“Democrats were committed to modernizing and reauthorizing TAA ahead of last night’s deadline, but unfortunately, this crucial pro-jobs program will lapse because Republicans refused to engage. While our country continues to deal with the reverberating effects of the pandemic, this reversion will also disproportionately harm women and minority workers, and will prevent workers affected by trade from China from accessing the program. House Democrats are looking for the earliest opportunity to put the program back on track, and will also seek to increase and modernize TAA’s benefits."
