Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) led a letter alongside Sen. Alex Padilla (CA) and Rep. Joe Neguse (CO-2) to House and Senate Leadership urging them to include a two-year lift of the federal firefighter pay cap in budget legislation currently moving through Congress.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) pushed for new support for the Valley's agricultural fairs during a critical House Agriculture Committee markup. The bill, the bipartisan Agricultural Fairs Rescue Act, will provide $500 million in federal grants for agricultural fairs through state departments of agriculture. State and county fairs are a primary source of promotion of U.S.
WASHINGTON — Last night, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) voted to pass a disaster relief package that will have huge impacts on the Central Valley. The bill includes billions in new federal investments to deal with the ongoing drought, fight and prevent wildfires, aid farmers who've lost crops and families who've lost homes to disasters, fix disaster-damaged roads and bridges, and more.
WASHINGTON — Tonight, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) reacted to the Senate Parliamentarian's new ruling that language protecting Dreamers, essential workers, and those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) cannot be included in the reconciliation bill.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) announced that his office has now saved constituents $9,323,043.60 in government benefits or mistaken bills from government agencies. Due to significant failures at the California Economic Development Department (EDD), Rep. Harder's team has focused on bridging the issue by cutting through red tape and getting constituents answers.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) is pushing a new provision in the reconciliation bill to raise wages for the thousands of home health workers caring for the Central Valley's seniors and disabled individuals. According to recent data, the average home health worker in the Modesto area makes $14.45 an hour, only 45 cents above minimum wage.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder introduced the Connecting Students to Great Jobs Act which for the first time ever will let the federal government support Valley students pursuing degrees in high skill, high paying jobs.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) celebrated a win for Central Valley farmers after the House Ways and Means Committee completed their markup of the reconciliation bill without a repeal of the stepped-up basis. The stepped-up basis protection ensures family farms don't have to liquidate their farms or sell of parts of their land in order to afford the transition between one generation and the next. In May, Rep.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) announced that in the month of August alone, the new Child Tax Credit (CTC) delivered $44.1 million to 175,000 kids in his district. This represents 94,000 individual payments to Central Valley families.
WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) vowed to work alongside the administration on their new plan from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to lower the price of prescription drugs. The plan, outlined today by Sec. Becerra, will lower the price consumers pay for their prescriptions through competition, innovation, and transparency.