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Senator Blunt Rochester Floor Remarks on Amendment to Lower Housing Costs

To watch the video, click here. Washington, DC – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) spoke on the House Floor today during a debate of Senate Republicans’ partisan budget bill. There, she discussed her amendment to combat the President’s extreme tariffs that will exacerbate the housing crisis. Below are her remarks as prepared. Yesterday, when the Budget Resolution came to the floor, I introduced an amendment. It’s a simple, straightforward piece of legislation that would protect American consumers by prohibiting tariffs that increase the cost of building a house. Not two days ago, we passed a bipartisan resolution reversing President Trump’s unnecessary national emergency on Canadian imports. That’s right

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Blunt Rochester, Colleagues Demand Reversal of Mass Firings of Head Start, Office of Child Care Employees

Senators to Secretary Kennedy: “The termination of staff is alarming and will compound the challenges already facing these programs and services…with no clear planning nor considerations for how early childhood services will be impacted” Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined 27 Senators in condemning the Trump Administration’s mass firings of federal employees at the Office of Head Start (OHS) and the Office of Child Care (OCC) and demanding Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. immediately reinstate these employees. The sweeping firings of staff from these critical HHS

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Senator Blunt Rochester Statement on Tariff Resolution

Washington, DC – Last night, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) released the following statement: “I voted in favor of reversing President Trump’s unnecessary national emergency on Canadian imports. The President is doing everything he possibly can to justify extreme tariffs on our biggest trading partners and raise prices for American families. Let’s be clear: tariffs are taxes on American families. They do nothing but make things more expensive. These arbitrary trade wars come at a price – and Delaware’s farmers, consumers, and families are the ones who will foot the bill.   “These 19th century trade policies do not prepare us for a 21st century economy. We

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