Devastating Harm Caused By Trump Administration

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Mr. MRVAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Kaptur for bringing us together.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in great urgency to voice the concerns of hardworking families in Indiana's First Congressional District.

Communities across northwest Indiana are feeling the economic hardship and uncertainty brought on by this administration's policies.

I was proud to support the bipartisan infrastructure law, which awarded $1 billion for a clean hydrogen hub that would create thousands of jobs in northwest Indiana. BP's oil refinery prepared to make a private investment of over $6 billion. Members of organized labor created apprenticeship programs to ensure we had the workforce to bring this project to fruition, but the so-called big, beautiful bill terminated the clean hydrogen production tax credit, causing BP to put the project on indefinite pause for reasons related to economic uncertainty.

These policies are conscious decisions to create confusion, hesitation, and uncertainty, not just in hydrogen production, but also the challenges for our auto industry to grow and for the outsourcing of American steel production and our national security to the highest foreign bidder.

Mr. Speaker, the loss of American manufacturing jobs is a direct result of the administration's failed economic policies that harm hardworking families in my district.

Just today, I met with the equipment manufacturers from Indiana. They make essential products in the construction, automotive, energy, and agricultural industries. Rising costs on inputs, market uncertainty, and disruption in supply chains are harming these businesses and putting millions of good-paying jobs at risk.

When costs for these businesses rise, so does the cost of living for the families across the country. I believe that targeted tariffs such as section 232 is not only a national security issue but boosts domestic manufacturing. Many steel workers in the steel industry in my district rely on our ability to combat unfair trade practices from China and elsewhere that flood our markets with heavily subsidized and cheaply made products.

Mr. Speaker, we must have a more surgical and sector-based approach toward our trade policies; or we will continue to see job loss in the manufacturing sector, rising costs at the grocery store, and long- lasting impacts on our economy.

I will continue to work across the aisle to find middle ground to make sure we support our working families and that we lower the costs to live in northwest Indiana, in Indiana, and the United States.

Mr. Speaker, it is our responsibility to create domestic manufacturing that creates jobs so those individuals can have a healthcare policy and so those individuals can have an economy that grows and works for them. Again, I thank Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur for leading us today.

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