9th District
Dear Friend,
Thank you for contacting me regarding President Trump’s Executive Order to freeze all federal grant and loan programs. I appreciate your interest in this important issue.
As you know, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo calling for a spending freeze on federal assistance by 5pm on Tuesday, January 28th. This order would have withheld critical assistance from the middle class, working people, and the vulnerable. Freezing federal funding for grants would greatly harm our community.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) led a letter with 42 Congressional colleagues today asking President Trump to reconsider his potentially calamitous decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO). Citing the many benefits the U.S. receives through participation in WHO programs and cooperative agreements, the members argue that the organization is essential to global public health and the U.S. economy. They also contend that the U.S. pays dues based on a well-reasoned formula in line with its GDP and population but notes that much more U.S.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today introduced a Congressional resolution commending efforts to eradicate the wild poliovirus. As a child, Congressman Cohen contracted the disease which still affects his daily life.
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) plans to commemorate Monday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and will remember the horrific murder of six million Jewish people and others during the Holocaust.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9), David Schweikert (AZ-1), and Tim Burchett (TN-2) today wrote to President Trump urging him to act on a campaign promise to release the remaining records associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963. Hours later, President Trump took a large step forward in that process, issuing an executive order that directs the government to develop a plan to release the remaining JFK assassination-related records as well as records regarding the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today discussed his priorities for railroad service at a hearing titled “America Builds: Examining America’s Freight and Passenger Rail Network.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Young, Gifted and Green, a community environmental organization, will receive a community grant of $19,996,791 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The funding comes from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that only Congressman Cohen in the current Tennessee Congressional delegation voted for.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today questioned expert witnesses at a Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement hearing on “Restoring Immigration Enforcement in America.”
Congressman Cohen focused his questions on enforcement priorities: “Do you think DACA kids who’ve been in this country for maybe 20 or 25 years, been good citizens, maybe been in the military, the National Guard or something, should be rounded up and deported as well?”
WASHINGTON – On January 6, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) wrote to Governor Bill Lee expressing concern that Tennessee had missed a deadline to participate in the Electronic Benefits Transfer Program for Children and would forfeit $1.1 million for a program that fed 700,000 children last year unless the situation was rectified.
The letter set a January 17 deadline for Governor Lee to provide an explanation of the decision. The explanation has not been forthcoming.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), after reviewing President Donald Trump’s first executive orders released today, focused his immediate attention on new federal government policies on militarizing the southern border with Mexico, ending the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, and offering pardons and commutations to the January 6 rioters.
Congressman Cohen made the following statements: