[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 210 (Friday, December 12, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H5825]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          FUNDING MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP OFFICES

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to sound the alarm across Ohio. 
The Trump administration has recklessly frozen all of Ohio's 
Manufacturing Extension Partnership offices--I repeat, Manufacturing 
Extension Partnership offices.
  Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have worked hard to 
grow manufacturing jobs in America, in the places we represent, to 
recover from the four decades of outsourcing of U.S. production.
  I am really shocked at what they have done. This impulsive decision 
is a direct blow to family-owned businesses and American entrepreneurs 
competing against Communist China, Mexico, and every other low-wage 
haven in the world.
  This decision delays critical upgrades, injects uncertainty into 
local production lines, undermines new jobs being created, and 
undermines every worker this Nation depends upon.
  The Department of Commerce should release and restore these job-
creating dollars immediately. Congress voted for them. They should be 
expended.
  If the Trump administration can send $40 billion off to Argentina to 
buy foreign beef that hurts Ohio cattlemen, they ought to restore this 
support to boost U.S. factories, companies, and new jobs here at home.
  This is simply unbelievable.
  By the way, the U.S. Commerce Department Secretary is a Wall Street 
magnate. He doesn't understand what it takes to create manufacturing 
jobs in this country.

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