Currency Misalignment Monitor, June 2023
The U.S. dollar is 14.3% overvalued against global currencies, contributing to trade deficits costing some six million jobs, many in manufacturing.
The U.S. dollar is 14.3% overvalued against global currencies, contributing to trade deficits costing some six million jobs, many in manufacturing.
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the reintroduction of the Taxpayers and Savers Protection (TSP) Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would ban the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) from steering federal employee retirement funds in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) — the largest retirement fund in the world with…
At a recent House Ways & Means subcommittee hearing on trade, CEO Michael Stumo talks de minimis, and the inescapable realities of China’s forced labor.
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America’s (CPA) CEO, Michael Stumo, today testified before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade in a hearing titled, “Modernizing Customs Policies to Protect American Workers and Secure Supply Chains.” Stumo’s testimony focused on de minimis, an import loophole non-market economies like China exploit to ship hundreds…
The following written testimony was submitted by Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA, to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade for a hearing titled, “Modernizing Customs Policies to Protect American Workers and Secure Supply Chains,” that was held on May 25, 2023. Read Stumo’s oral testimony here. Written Testimony…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for holding a vote to override President Joe Biden’s veto of the bipartisan resolution of disapproval (H.J. Res. 39) under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that would repeal the Biden administration’s Solar Emergency Declaration. This harmful Declaration, in effect…
Dan Kildee’s full floor speech in support of over-riding the President’s veto on House and Senate vote to end the White House solar emergency declaration started last June.
WASHINGTON — In a coalition letter led by the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA), a group of national security and foreign policy experts urged President Joe Biden to establish a mechanism to review U.S. outbound investment to China in order to address the risks and threats associated with U.S. capital bolstering the CCP’s ability…
CPA, along with several other organizations and leaders, sent the following coalition letter to President Joe Biden requesting that the administration establish a mechanism to review U.S. outbound investment to China in order to address the risks and threats associated with U.S. capital bolstering the CCP’s ability to modernize and advance its military and build…
Times are changing. Where the GOP once stalwartly supported “free trade,” many Republicans are now openly questioning the effectiveness of U.S. trade policy. And in Congress, both Republicans and Democrats are looking to rewrite America’s problematic trading relationship with China. In particular, bipartisan consensus is emerging on the need to overhaul an obscure part of U.S. customs…