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Today, Tim Walberg, Chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, held a meeting with Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of the Department of Labor. The discussion centered on workforce issues in the United States.

Congressman Tim Walberg has been working on some changes to the federal government’s student loan program to reduce costs and help prevent young college students from going too deeply into debt.

In a bipartisan move, Congressman Tim Walberg (R) and U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D) each introduced a resolution in their respective chambers which commemorates May as “Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.”

President Donald Trump on May 9 signed a memorandum ordering his administration to "expeditiously implement the most effective mechanisms, barriers and other measures" to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, following through on a commitment he made to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the Oval Office a month earlier.

Congressman Tim Walberg, the new chair of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce, expressed hope for the future of education under the Trump administration Wednesday in a talk about federal policy.

Congressman Tim Walberg has welcomed home a Michigan man who had been detained in Tunisia since January of last year, accused of being a spy.

Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chair of the committee, used his first question during Wednesday’s hearing—which ran more than three hours—on “college presidents to answer for mishandling of antisemitic, violent protests” to ask the leaders how many students have been suspended or expelled for Jew-hatred since Oct. 7.

House Republicans are grilling three college presidents accused of tolerating antisemitism as pro-Palestinian protests took campuses by storm last year.