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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Don Beyer (D-VA)

Yesterday, New Dem Vice Chair for Outreach Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and New Dem Trade Task Force Chair Don Beyer (VA-08) hosted a roundtable discussion on how small businesses have been hurt by the Trump Administration’s sweeping tariffs. 

Vice Chair Carbajal and Rep. Beyer, who is a member of the Ways & Means Committee and the Joint Economic Committee, were joined by several New Dem Members for the discussion, including New Dem Vice Chair for Communications Marc Veasey (TX-33), Leadership Member Andrea Salinas (OR-06) and Reps. Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Kelly Morrison (MN-03), Tim Kennedy (NY-26), and Lucy McBath (GA-07).

“President Trump’s chaotic tariffs have imposed a heavy burden on the American people, including our small business owners,” said Rep. Carbajal, Vice Chair for Outreach for the New Democrat Coalition. “Small businesses fuel the American economy, but President Trump’s tariffs act as deadweight for our entrepreneurs — leading to higher costs, lower margins, and tougher times. I’m grateful to our guests for sharing their stories. Their insights are vital as our Coalition works to champion a more stable economic future.”

“President Trump’s tariffs have driven up costs for American consumers and businesses alike, and I appreciate that they’ve joined us to shed light on the real challenges Americans are facing,” said Rep. Don Beyer, New Dem Trade Task Force Chair Don Beyer. “Unlike large corporations, most small businesses can’t bribe the president with gold bars, ornate plaques, or massive donations to his ballroom project. They also can’t afford to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to retain a MAGA-aligned lobbyist. As a result, while some companies have won exemptions or relief, small businesses have been left to absorb the full impact of these higher prices.”

During the roundtable, small business owners shared some of the specific challenges that they have faced since Trump took office and how his tariff policy has affected their ability to stay in business. Some of these challenges include their ability to source products, keep competitive pricing, hire staff, and more. Members and stakeholders also discussed the pain Trump’s tariffs have inflicted on small businesses, including how the Trump administration continues to impose tariffs despite the recent Supreme Court ruling and the Administration’s unclear plan to refund illegally collected tariffs. Last month, New Dems sent a letter to the Administration demanding answers and transparency on the refunds process.

Additionally, stakeholders shared ideas for what New Dems can do to create smarter, more durable trade policy that helps small businesses. Earlier this year, New Dems released our New Dem Affordability Agenda, which calls for Congress to restore its responsibility to oversee international trade and roll back Trump’s tariffs.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA)

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that it will prohibit transgender athletes from competing in women’s competitions at the Olympics. These new rules will apply beginning at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. In response to this news, U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement:

“This latest action by the IOC will ensure level playing fields prevail in future Olympic competitions. Women athletes are finally being protected!

“As the supporter of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, I call on Democrats in the House and Senate to take a stand for fairness, integrity and the truth. Men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports.”

BACKGROUND

Congressman Griffith serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 

In the 118^th Congress, he helped lead the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in the panel’s efforts to push the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to take actions to root out cheating. For a hearing on this topic, Chairman Griffith invited U.S. swimmers Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt to testify.

In 2025, Congressman Griffith supported the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steny H Hoyer (MD-05)

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) delivered remarks on the House Floor during debate on H.Res.1128 – Expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security. Below are a video and transcript of his remarks.
 

Click here to watch a video of his remarks.

First Set of Remarks

“Mr. Speaker, the argument being made on the other side is not accurate. I will give them the benefit of the doubt, because perhaps they don’t know [that] it’s not accurate. We have over [210] people who are prepared to vote for all of the funding in DHS, other than one of the components – both of the components who recently have snatched people off the streets of America wearing hoods and no badges and putting them into unmarked cars. Yes, we’re not for that. The gentleman said he was – that I asked the yield is, said he was a law enforcement officer. I was going to ask him whether he ever wore a mask during the course of his duties. Not a gas mask, a mask to keep him secret. I’m going to ask him whether he ever went into a home without a warrant, inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States. Yes, we want to defend the Constitution of the United States. And by the way, unless you missed it, when we passed the appropriation bills that have funded most of the government, we did so and we took DHS out and told you, ‘We’re not for that.’ So, what you continue to do is to bring this Floor something we have told you we are not for. Mr. Speaker, if the Speaker of the House brought that bill to the Floor to fund all of DHS’s components except those two agencies, it would pass overwhelmingly today, within this hour. I guarantee it, as a former Majority Leader, assuming that all of you say, ‘Oh, we want to fund TSA, we want to fund the Secret Service. We want to fund the Coast Guard,’ assuming that you would follow your rhetoric. It could be done like that. (snaps fingers) I say that as a [former] Majority Leader of this House for eight years, and I know of what I speak.

“Mr. Speaker, they talk about shutdowns. Under Ronald Reagan – and there were eight shutdowns – they lasted for an average, Mr. Speaker, of 1.3 days. Nine of those were weekend days. Why? Because Ronald Reagan and we Democrats who controlled the House were prepared to go to the table and make an agreement, and if we couldn’t make an agreement, we nevertheless funded the government. This President has said numerous times, Mr. Speaker, ‘I’d welcome [shutting] down the government, all of it.’ All of it. So those of you who have come to the Floor and tried to, like Pontius Pilate, wash responsibility away and blame it on Democrats, because yes, there are things which we very strongly disagree [with], and that is the violation of the Constitution, the violation of statutes, and I would have asked my law enforcement friend the violation of norms followed by every police department in America.

“So, I am tired of hearing totally inaccurate information [about] some ‘fraud’ bill. That’s not the word that was used, Mr. Speaker, but that was implied. The bill that we want is no fraud. The bill we want would fund TSA, Secret Service, Coast Guard, CISA, and all other agencies in DHS tomorrow. But what is the majority bringing to the Floor, Mr. Speaker? A bill that has failed three times. Why? Because we don’t want warrantless searches, we don’t want people’s doors being broken down without probable cause, we don’t want people apprehended by masked people. You know, I grew up in an era, when I was a young man, where there were a lot of people wearing masks, going around, assaulting people. We didn’t call them police. Try to be honest with the American people. Mr. Speaker, we owe them that. Tell them, ‘Look, we are afraid that if we fund all of these components of which we all talk and support.’ If we do that, then we won’t make as good a deal on DHS.’ We won’t keep them immune from following the Constitution. We won’t keep them immune from following the laws of their state. We won’t keep them immune from the norms that police follow. Don’t come to this Floor and be dishonest and say we’re shutting down the government. We’re not. But we sure do want to raise the question and have a debate about whether we follow the Constitution in terms of law enforcement in this country. That’s what I call – you know why you have warrants? Because King George could go into any house, any time, every time that he wanted to, and the Founding Fathers thought that was wrong.

“I see my Chairman is standing, so he may want to speak himself and not have me take all the time. But I would plead with my Republican friends, Mr. Speaker be honest. You’re holding off that bill because you think tactically it will undermine what the ICE is doing; undermining that two, three, four, five people were killed by officers not following the law. Don’t come here pretending that Democrats, somehow, are shutting [the government] down. By the way, when Joe Biden was President of the United States, you know how many shutdowns there were? Mr. Speaker, the answer to that is zero. Zero. Let’s fund the important services that the American people deserve. Let’s have the Speaker either put the bill on the Floor, have ten Republicans sign the discharge petition, we’ll put it on the Floor and we’ll pass it overwhelmingly, I predict. Mr. Chairman, I thank you for giving me some time to try to correct the record that is being, unfortunately, made poorly on this Floor.”

Second Set of Remarks

“I thank the gentleman. The gentleman on the other side, Mr. Speaker, asked me to come back. I came back, he made a comment, I wanted to correct him. He would not yield for that purpose.

“86% of ICE is being funded. There are no silos being undermined, except by not funding all the other agencies that we are prepared to support. No silos. 85% of CBP is funded. You funded, Mr. Speaker, in reconciliation at three times, essentially, what the annual appropriation was for those two agencies. So, there ought not to be, again, this Pontius Pilate hand-wringing that, somehow, we’ve shut down those two agencies. We have not. You provided for that, Mr. Speaker, and they are funded.

“The question is, do you still want to use, as a political tactic, shutting down all the other agencies? And I yield back the balance of my time.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09)

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Dr. Wei Li of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $614,894 from the National Cancer Institute. The grant supports Dr. Li’s work targeting brain and bone metastases in metastatic breast cancer for improved patient survival through the development of new drugs more tailored to these types of cancers. 

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

“Understanding and targeting metastatic cancers will result in therapies and medicines that may prolong and even save patients’ lives. I commend Dr. Li and our medical school for undertaking this important work.”

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Richard Hudson (NC-09), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, held a hearing to review the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and examine how Congress can modernize communications policy for today’s economy.

“The Telecommunications Act was a huge milestone when it was enacted. It was the first major rewrite of communications policy since the Communications Act of 1934,” said Rep. Hudson. “The world of 1996 looks nothing like the world of today, and it’s time that we update our laws to reflect that.”

WHAT: Subcommittee hearing to review the 1996 Telecommunications Act

DATE: Thursday, March 26, 2026

TIME: 10:15 AM ET

LOCATION: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building

Why this matters:

• The 1996 law unleashed competition and innovation by breaking down monopoly-era barriers
• It established universal service principles critical to rural communities
  It included Section 230, which helped create today’s internet economy
• It failed to anticipate the rise of broadband and modern communications technologies
• Today’s framework still relies on outdated regulatory structures that do not reflect how Americans communicate

Watch Chairman Hudson’s full remarks here.

Watch his questions to witnesses here.

The hearing was open to the public and press and will be livestreamed at energycommerce.house.gov.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Angie Craig (MN-02)

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig – a member of the Congressional Native American Caucus – joined Reps. Janelle Bynum (OR-05) and Troy Downing (MT-02) in introducing legislation to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA).

NAHASDA was first enacted in 1996 and remains the primary vehicle for providing federal housing assistance to Native American communities through the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) program. Although the program continues to receive annual appropriations, it has not been reauthorized since 2008 – leaving Tribal nations to navigate a growing housing crisis with outdated tools.

“Right now, nearly 40% of on-reservation housing is considered substandard and that’s unacceptable,” said Rep Craig. “Without ample housing in Indian Country, Tribal Members have struggled to access the health care, economic opportunities and education they deserve. That’s why I’m leading the effort to re-authorize NAHASDA and provide much-needed federal housing support to Minnesota’s 11 federally recognized Tribal communities.”

This legislation has been developed in partnership with the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC), which represents over 475 Tribes and Tribal housing organizations across the country. The bill has received support from the Bipartisan Policy Center Action, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the Native CDFI Network, the Housing Assistance Council and NeighborWorks.

This Congress, Rep. Craig requested over $10 million in federal funding for the Native American Relending Demonstration in the Fiscal Year 2027 U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service budget. If approved, this funding will help improve homeownership opportunities in rural areas for Native American communities.

Rep. Craig is a cosponsor of the bipartisan Historic Preservation Fund Reauthorization Act to continue funding the State and Tribal Historic Preservation Office, which maintains and protects historic Tribal buildings and landmarks.

In 2023, Rep. Craig secured $1.16 million to upgrade the Prairie Island Indian Community’s energy efficiency technology, which provides on-reservation housing with long overdue access to modern, energy-efficient home appliances. Thanks to these critical upgrades, Prairie Island has been able to eliminate over 35,307 pounds in CO2 emissions per year.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman John Garamendi – Representing California’s 3rd Congressional District

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval against the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)’s recent rule regarding Adverse Effect Wage Rates for H-2A workers. The DOL failed to provide a notice-and-comment period for the rule as required by the Administrative Procedure Act. Original co-sponsors of Lofgren’s resolution include Reps. Mark Pocan (WI-02), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Ilhan Omar (MN-05).

“We have a well-crafted plan to reform America’s H-2A program in the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act I introduced,” Rep. Lofgren said. “Yet Trump’s Labor Department decided to just act unilaterally and issue this rule without the proper comment period required by the Administrative Procedure Act. H-2A reform is necessary, but it needs to happen through a legislative process that includes consensus among stakeholders, not through this misguided, illegal administrative route.”

Rep. Lofgren’s resolution has the support of organizations including Agricultural Justice Project, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Campesinos Sin Fronteras, Casa Azul de Wilson, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM), Economic Policy Institute, Farmworker Justice, the Guatemalan Maya Center, Inc., Justice for Migrant Women, Legal Aid Justice Center, Migrant Clinicians Network, National Immigration Law Center, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), United Farm Workers (UFW), UFW Foundation, and We are CASA.

“Across the country, farm workers including U.S. citizens are already suffering the direct and indirect impacts of Trump’s illegal wage cut,” said Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers. “Smaller paychecks for the same work and greater competition with foreign guest workers who are cheaper than ever to hire. President Trump’s callous disregard for proper procedure and rule making process is having real world consequences for some of the hardest working people in America. We proudly support Rep. Lofgren’s holding the administration to account and fighting to reverse this illegal rule and restore fairer wages to farm workers.” 

“The UFW Foundation is proud to stand with Representative Lofgren as she introduces this CRA to protect farm worker wages,” said Erica Lomeli Corcoran, Chief Executive Officer of the UFW Foundation. “The farm workers who feed all of us should be able to also feed themselves and their families with the wages they make. Instead, this administration is unlawfully cutting their wages and transferring billions from workers to employers. We need to do what is right for our farm workers and stop these wage cuts.”

UFW and UFW Foundation are challenging this rule in court, and a hearing on a preliminary injunction took place on March 18. The text of Rep. Lofgren’s resolution can be found here.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Brett Guthrie (2nd District Kentucky)

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) issued the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 8029, the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act. This marks the third time that the House has passed a bipartisan funding package to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). 

“The House has taken bipartisan action three times to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. The same cannot be said for Senate Democrats, who continue to shift the goalpost and refuse to negotiate in good faith with their Republican counterparts to get a bill across the finish line.

“Democrats in the Senate have been offered reasonable deals to reopen DHS, yet continue to oppose any compromise in an effort to appease their radical, open borders base. Their continued inaction leaves Americans less safe, and thousands of dedicated federal employees working without a paycheck. Ahead of the upcoming busy travel week, Americans are now facing record airport security wait times, all due to the ongoing DHS shutdown.  It’s time Democrats stop playing games and find a solution to end this ridiculous shutdown.”

Background: 

– The partial government shutdown for DHS has lasted 40 days, beginning on February 14, 2026. DHS funding supports important federal agencies that ensure the safety and well-being of the American people, including: the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and more. DHS has been unfunded and operating under a government shutdown for longer than it has operated funded during fiscal year 2026. 

– As a result of the ongoing DHS shutdown, travelers are experiencing the longest airport security wait times in the history of the TSA, according to the agency.

– Senate Democrats initiated this partial shutdown in an attempt to defund and reform ICE. Throughout this shutdown, ICE and CBP have continued to operate normally (including agents receiving pay), due to funding allocated to the agencies in the Working Families Tax Cuts. 

– This week, Senate Republicans offered Democrats another deal, which included many Democrat demands, to fully fund DHS. This deal was rejected by Senate Democrats, who counteroffered with additional requests. A rundown on this negotiation can be found HERE.

– The House passed a bipartisan funding package on three occasions with Congressman Guthrie’s support:
-On January 28, 2026, the House passed H.R. 7147 by a vote of 220 to 207.
-On March 5, 2026, the House reasserted its position and voted to pass H.R. 7744 to fund DHS by a vote of 221 to 209.
-Today, as Senate negotiations continue, the House voted a third time to assert its position on DHS funding by passing H.R. 8029, a bipartisan package, by a vote of 218 to 206.

– The Senate has repeatedly voted and failed to advance a funding package five times as of March 25, 2026. 

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04)

WASHINGTON — This afternoon, Speaker Johnson delivered remarks after a bipartisan majority of House members voted to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security for a third time. Once again, the overwhelming majority of House Democrats refused to provide funding for TSA agents, disaster relief, and our national security and instead chose to prioritize the welfare of criminal illegal aliens.

“So, the question for the Democrats right now is, and it’s a serious question: how long is this going to go on? Are we going to wait until somebody brings a firearm on a passenger airplane? Are we going to wait until we have a natural disaster that we cannot take care of? This is not a game, but these are not serious people,” Speaker Johnson said. “And they have demonstrated once again that they are putting the welfare of criminal illegal aliens above American citizens.”

Watch Speaker Johnson’s full remarks here.

Below are Speaker Johnson’s remarks as delivered:

We are quite frustrated right now. We keep saying that the coming election is about a contrast for America between common sense and crazy. And you just saw it on display here once again. For the third time now, almost every Democrat in the House except for 4 voted against the bipartisan, bicameral Department of Homeland Security funding bill. It would reopen DHS and get our airports running again.

And they did that for one reason: because they are trying to protect criminal illegal aliens. That’s what this entire debate is about. And there’s no way for them to hide from that. And they keep putting votes on the board.

I have suggested, and I suggested yesterday in a press conference, we should probably take this vote tally, blow it up on a poster and put it at every airport terminal around America. The Democrats just voted for the third time to make you stand in those long lines and to jeopardize our country.

You think at what’s at stake right now. We have noted that the Department of Homeland Security is the third largest department of the federal government. We have 10 agencies in DHS. They happen to be all the agencies whose job it is to keep Americans safe.

You’re talking about FEMA. Do you know that our disaster relief funds are being depleted right now? You’re talking about TSA; you’re talking about the Coast Guard. They’re not getting paychecks right now. And that’s why we have all this calamity and all of this danger.

So, the question for the Democrats right now is, and it’s a serious question: how long is this going to go on? Are we going to wait until somebody brings a firearm on a passenger airplane? Are we going to wait till we have a natural disaster that we cannot take care of? This is not a game, but these are not serious people.

And they have demonstrated once again that they are putting the welfare of criminal illegal aliens above American citizens. We are mourning the death of Sheridan Gorman, a young college student from Chicago who was murdered by an illegal alien because of Democrat policies.

Joe Biden had the border wide open. The Democrats in the White House in the last administration left the border wide open. They apprehended this guy, the murderer, and they let him go. And then he went to Chicago. Why there? Because that’s a sanctuary city.

They arrested him there for another crime, and they put him out on the streets again. And he shot a young American citizen, a college student in the head, from the back. This is what’s happening in America because these people are putting the welfare of criminal illegal aliens over Americans.

This is a vote tally; I just wanted to bring a little visual aid. We just print these out after the votes. This is the resolution right before the funding bill. The resolution was to “Express the support of the House of Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security.” Here’s your vote tally: every Republican obviously voted yes. 187 Democrats voted against a resolution to support the Department of Homeland Security.

Here’s a real profile in courage for the 13 who voted present. They don’t even have the guts to tell you what they stand for. This upcoming election, again, is a contrast for America. It’s a contrast between common sense and crazy. And the Democrats are making crazy policy decisions right now, and it is hurting real Americans. And we’ve had enough of them.

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