Levin, McDermott Statement on Trade Adjustment Assistance

Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today made the following joint statement regarding Trade Adjustment Assistance:

“Republicans should have never let the expanded Trade Adjustment Assistance program expire in February – a lapse that is inexcusable. As a result, during the past six months workers who have lost jobs through no fault of their own have been denied certification for critical retraining and other assistance. The path forward in the House as well as the Senate must be ironclad in its assurance that TAA will be renewed, otherwise TAA should be attached to the Korea FTA as we urged many months ago. Until this year, the program was widely hailed as a bipartisan success story and its renewal should be embraced by both sides of the aisle. American workers deserve no less.”