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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement in reaction to President Donald Trump's latest budget proposal:
"President Trump is again exposing his true priorities with this proposed budget – help for billionaires at the expense of hard-working American families.
Burlington County Times. By: David Levinsky
The U.S. Department of Defense released the details of President Donald Trump's military budget for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year, and like numerous spending plans introduced previously, it seeks authorization for another round of base closures.
NJ.com. By: Jonathan Salant
Even as he proposed boosting defense spending by $54 billion, President Donald Trump followed the lead of his predecessor in asking for a new round of military base closings.
Such talk in the past worried New Jersey officials who feared that Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst would be a target, the way McGuire Air Force Base was more than two decades ago.
But that was before the joint base landed 24 new KC-46 refueling tankers. Scheduled to arrive from 2020 to 2023, the planes will be housed by the 305th Air Mobility Wing.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced the winners of the 2017 Congressional Art Competition for New Jersey's First Congressional District.
The first place winner, Hannah Jin of Cherry Hill Township, submitted a painting titled "The Tale of the Yellow Ribbon." The painting shows a mother and daughter planting a tree, on which they have tied a single yellow ribbon. Hannah, a 9th grade student at Moorestown Friends School, says the yellow ribbon serves as a symbol of remembrance and hope for members of the armed services.
Philadelphia Inquirer. By: Jonathan Tamari
WASHINGTON — After two chaotic weeks that shook Washington, Republicans from the Philadelphia area are tired, frustrated, and facing political peril from the maelstrom surrounding President Trump.
They are not yet abandoning the president; not while tax reform, a health-care repeal, and infrastructure program still seem possible. But their anxiety is mounting. Republicans who hoped Trump would turn their long-sought priorities into reality worry that instead his problems may smother them.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), member of the House Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement after attending a classified bipartisan briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein regarding the firing of FBI Director Comey and investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election:
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), issued the following statement on the Trump Administration's formal notice to Congress that it plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA):
"Any trade deal needs to benefit American workers - and it's clear American workers have been the losers here. In South Jersey, 19,500 manufacturing jobs have been lost since NAFTA came into force, which is unacceptable.
WASHINGTON, DC - Co-Chairs of the Congressional Building Trades Caucus, Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and David McKinley (R-WV), along with the Construction Employers of America, commemorated Infrastructure Week 2017 and called for robust infrastructure investments at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, on the 63rd anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and House Democrats introduced the Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2017.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, H.R. 2353, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, passed the House Education and Workforce Committee unanimously and Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the Committee, included a provision that extends the allowable use of funding for career-building programs.