Kamlager-Dove Delivers Floor Speech on US-India Relations

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia delivered a floor speech on US-India relations. Her remarks as prepared are below:

I rise today as the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia to sound the alarm about the deterioration of our strategic partnership with India at the hands of Donald Trump.

As two major democracies and economies, U.S.-India cooperation is essential to advancing our mutual interests and confronting our shared competitors.

President Biden took the relationship to new heights, strengthening collaboration on defense, strategic technologies, and the Quad.

But in just a few short months, Trump’s reckless foreign policy style has unraveled decades of progress–suddenly slapping India with 50% tariffs because his fragile ego was triggered.

And Republicans have refused to go to bat for the U.S.-India relationship when it really matters, beholden to their MAGA isolationist base.

This partnership is too important to be sacrificed by Trump’s ego and Republican complicity. 

Trump must reverse course, make a deal, and fix the damage that he caused.