Democrats on Ways and Means Ask That ILAB Programs Be Restored
House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee ranking member Linda Sánchez, D-Calif., and 13 other Democrats on the committee asked the administration not to cut the Department of Labor's International Labor Affairs Bureau staff and the programs they administer.
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They also asked the Labor Secretary to reinstate canceled international labor programs, such as one in Uzbekistan, which they said was "instrumental in eliminating the systemic use of forced and child labor in the Uzbek cotton sector." They said if ILAB doesn't work to stop forced labor and child labor, U.S. workers are undercut by imports made under those conditions.