Chris Van Hollen: “A six-month unscheduled outage at the Soo Locks would result in 11 million jobs lost.”

Rural communities, small businesses, and families will lose access to important services if the proposed reorganization plan moves forward.

This is an opportunity for this Congress to finally take responsibility.

The agency’s actions over the last year are an outrageous abuse of administrative power that will leave Americans sicker, poorer, and dying from preventable causes.

Without adequate and expert staff, the money that Congress has appropriated to help rural communities will not reach its intended beneficiaries.