Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trump Administration ended Temporary Protected Status for people from Nicaragua.  TPS is a provision under the bipartisan Immigration Act of 1990 that grants temporary safe haven to men, women and children fleeing armed conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or other extraordinary conditions in their home countries: 

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the new analysis conducted by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that finds that more than 22 million households earning under $150,500 will see a tax hike under the Ryan-McConnell tax bill:

Washington, D.C. -- Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released this statement following news of a mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas that killed at least 27 and injured 30:

Good morning, everyone.  We have some very special guests with us here today so I will be brief in my remarks so we can hear from them.  Yesterday, as you know, the Republicans unveiled a terrible assault on opportunity for the middle class in America.  The Republicans want you to believe they are cutting taxes on the middle class, but the Republicans are plundering the middle class and middle class families to give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations – some shipping jobs overseas.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Co-Chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, delivered the Weekly Democratic Address.  In this week’s address, DeLauro condemned House Republicans’ tax bill that would raise taxes on middle class families, while handing a multi-trillion dollar giveaway in tax cuts to the wealthiest and corporate America.  Video and audio of the Weekly Democratic Address can be downloaded here.

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after House Republicans forced through the House a partisan bill that reauthorizes the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Community Health Centers and other public health initiatives, and pays for it by slashing the Prevention and Public Health Fund, sabotaging the Affordable Care Act and raising Medicare premiums:

In what President Trump calls a ‘major, major tax cut’ and a ‘giant tax cut for Christmas,’ House Republicans have unveiled their long-awaited tax bill just to confirm what we already knew: the GOP tax plan will have ruinous consequences for workers and middle class families, while the wealthiest and corporate America will be handed a multi-trillion dollar giveaway in tax cuts.

“October’s jobs report shows that hard-working Americans continue to be denied the bigger paychecks they deserve under the Republicans’ billionaires-first agenda.  Ten months into the Trump Administration, working Americans still aren’t seeing the strong wages that Republicans have promised them.