Press Releases
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) released the following statement on Trump Administration’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education:
“The federal government plays a limited, but crucial role in supporting American educational systems––yet this new Republican scheme to eliminate the Department of Education will devastate our nation’s students from preschool to high school.
Washington, DC — Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11), Vice Ranking Member on the House Agriculture Committee, joined Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, and House Agriculture Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) and Agriculture Committee Chairman “GT” Thompson (PA-15), urging bipartisan negotiations on the farm bill and opposing harmful cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Cleveland, OH – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) joined representatives from the Greater Cleveland Food Bank on Wednesday at Dave’s Market on E. 61st in Cleveland to highlight the importance of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and the challenges that Northeast Ohio families relying on SNAP face.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11), Vice Ranking Member on the House Committee on Agriculture joined Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) and Democrats on the committee in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, expressing concerns over the Trump administration’s whiplash tariffs which have seeded uncertainty and chaos throughout the agricultural sector.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11), Vice Ranking Member on the House Committee on Agriculture sharply criticized the Trump Administration for ending two USDA programs that provide funding for food banks and schools to buy local food.
Washington, DC – The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Deputy Inspector General Vint has informed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that the OPM Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will be incorporating into existing work topics of investigation outlined in a
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) joined Democratic colleagues from the House Committee on Oversight as a cosponsor on two Resolutions of Inquiry into the Trump-Musk Administration’s attacks on federal workers and Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest stemming from his unprecedented access to federal payment systems, personnel data, and more via the sham Department of Government Efficiency.