As Trump tariffs batter U.S. economy, Lutnick RIFs entire agency that helps boost minority entrepreneurship, ignite economic opportunity & create jobs in rural, suburban & urban communities across the country Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) wrote to Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick demanding documents and full accounting of his actions to shutter the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) despite vowing not to support efforts to dismantle it. Today’s letter follows a March 24 letter from Sens. Blunt Rochester and Cantwell, warning

Smyrna, Del. –Yesterday, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) traveled across Delaware to shine a light on how actions being taken in Washington are impacting her constituents in the First State. Blunt Rochester started the morning by visiting Laurel High School, along with Laurel School District Superintendent Dr. Shawn Larrimore and Laurel High School Principal Patrina Giles. Blunt Rochester toured the school and met with students from the graduating class of 2025. A member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Blunt Rochester has spoken out against the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education and recently sent a letter to Secretary Linda McMahon seeking answers

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Education and the American Family, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), led 9 their colleagues in sending a letter demanding answers from Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the abrupt and unprecedented mass firing of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) employees. HRSA is the primary agency tasked with improving access to health care for vulnerable populations, including uninsured and underinsured children and families. The letter was also signed by Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bernie