House Ways and Means Democrats Ask for Hearing on US-China Trade

House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., along with all the committee's other Democrats, asked committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, to hold hearings on U.S.-China trade, calling administration officials as witnesses. The letter, sent May 24, says the administration is holding high-level meetings on trade with China, and members of Congress only know what's going on during those talks by following press reports. They said this is unacceptable, and said "press reports indicate an increasingly baffling set of circumstances and developments." They said that the messages from different officials conflict, including what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says and what President Donald Trump says about Chinese telecommunications equipment company ZTE and how the talks are going.