.SenateApprops Chair PattyMurray and SenateFinance Chair RonWyden are at odds over whether $500 million in bolstered funding for the Trade Adjustment Assistance program is allowed to be spent. Murray insists the funding is expired.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray and Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden are at odds over whether $500 million in bolstered funding for the Trade Adjustment Assistance program is allowed to be spent, which Murray insists expired and has not been reauthorized despite funding being allocated for it in a bill last year.“The appropriations bill that passed at the end of the year said the program ended, that’s the way it was written,” Murray said, per Politico.
Murray backs the program but is concerned that it has not been reauthorized. Lawmakers finagled the $500 million TAA funding into the spending bill last year with the intent of cutting a deal between the two parties to extend it, sources told Politico. However, in the scramble to move the spending bill, the reauthorization of TAA never came to pass.
The Washington senator reportedly contacted the Labor Department to express her concerns that TAA has not been reauthorized and demand the department refrain from combing through TAA applications. Her office has insisted that she is not blocking TAA, rather Republican opposition has foiled it. “I believe the omnibus extended TAA for a year,” Wyden countered, per Politico. “The text of the law is clear. ... The Biden administration should use that authority to deliver workers the benefits they are owed.”
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