Economy
As a small business owner, I know it takes well-trained workers to keep our state’s small business economy growing. That’s why as an Executive Councilor, I worked across party lines to secure funding for New Hampshire’s job training and technical education programs. In Washington, I am continuing my commitment to increasing access to job training and career and technical education.
We also need to increase capital for small businesses and address onerous regulations that hamper the ability of our small businesses to thrive. We need to cut the red tape and make interactions between small businesses and federal agencies easier, support continued economic growth with creative solutions, and fight the online sales tax that is burdening New Hampshire’s small businesses.
Investing in job training and apprenticeship programs is essential to building a talent pipeline, which trains and matches workers with our amazing local companies looking to hire them. We must also work to make college more affordable, so those who want to pursue post-secondary education have the ability to do so, regardless of their zip code.
Together, we can ensure New Hampshire remains a great place for everyone to live and work.
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Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) joined 58 of their colleagues in a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Senior Official Performing the Duties of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Cameron Hamilton demanding answers on the termination of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and the risk that halting approved BRIC projects poses to vulnerable communities in New Hampshire and across the country.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Ranking Member of Economic Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee (HVAC), and Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02), member of HVAC, introduced the Veterans’ Transition to Trucking Act, bipartisan legislation to cut red tape for veteran truckers by allowing VA to streamline the approval of certain apprenticeship programs to partner with VA.
Yesterday Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), a small business owner, met with New Hampshire forest products industry leaders to discuss how President Trump’s sweeping and chaotic tariffs, which amount to a national sales tax, are raising costs for small businesses and housing construction across the state.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), a small business owner, and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02), a member of the Small Business Committee, are highlighting the impact President Trump’s widespread, indiscriminate tariffs will have on New Hampshire’s small business community, and how they will raise costs for Granite Staters. They are calling on the administration to reverse course on this harmful policy, which amounts to a national sales tax.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) held a roundtable conversation with leaders of Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (CAPSC) to discuss how the Trump administration’s severe cuts to public health funding and freeze on federal grants is hurting New Hampshire service providers and vulnerable Granite Staters that rely on them. Roundtable participants included CAPSC CEO Betsey Andrews Parker, Chief Program Officer Jamie Swan, Chief Financial Officer Leslie Craigen, Chief Advancement Officer John Moynihan, Interim Head Start Director Charna Ave
This week Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) helped reintroduce the American Family Act, legislation that would make permanent the expanded and improved monthly Child Tax Credit.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) released the following statement after once again voting against the Republicans’ budget proposal:
This week Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Congressional Maple Caucus, called on Secretary Rollins and the Department of Agriculture to reinstate grants delivered by the Acer Access and Development Program (Acer).
Congressmen Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) reintroduced the Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act which would repeal the 12% federal excise tax on heavy trucks. Representatives Darin LaHood (IL-16), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), and Max Miller (OH-07) joined in introducing this bipartisan legislation.
The New Hampshire delegation are calling on President Donald Trump, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley, and Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Director Alex Meyer to immediately reverse the President’s March 14 Executive Order dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and implement all Congressionally appropriated funds for IMLS