U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) has launched a new effort to combat the growing threat of superbugs – bacteria or fungi resistant to standard antibiotics. The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee - Minority issued a report today on the cost of superbugs – also called antimicrobial resistance – to the overall health care system, finding that outbreaks can cost approximately $5.7 billion when accounting for medical personnel, equipment, and the space necessary to treat patients. Additionally, Senator Hassan is today introducing the bipartisan Stop Superbugs Act with Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), which would formally authorize and further focus the efforts of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) working group in order to help facilitate clinical trials for new antibiotics to mitigate the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, today pushed Hugging Face, a platform for sharing and using AI tools, to prevent people from using the platform to create nonconsensual deepfakes that depict sexual content of women and children. This comes after public reporting and research from the technology watchdog AI Forensics that found serious problems with the company’s approach to protecting against this type of activity.
Jul 29 2026
Senator Hassan Presses Sado Capital on Management of Mobile Home Communities in New Hampshire
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, today pressed Sado Capital, a real estate investment firm, on the impacts of its business practices on residents of manufactured housing communities in New Hampshire. In recent years, firms like Sado Capital have increasingly purchased manufactured housing communities, including The Meadows of Hopkinton – a 70-lot manufactured housing park in Contoocook, New Hampshire. Earlier this year, Senator Hassan launched a survey for Granite Staters to detail their experiences at mobile homes and visited The Meadows of Hopkinton. In addition, the NH Attorney General recently began an investigation into Sado Capital.
As oil prices hit $100 a barrel this morning amid President Trump’s war with Iran, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee – Minority released a new report today that found that American farmers spent $1.4 billion more on diesel fuel during this year’s spring planting season than they did last year. Trump’s war with Iran has caused diesel prices to skyrocket, which has harmed farmers at a time when they already face increased costs and new challenges due to Trump’s tariffs. The report released today includes new calculations nationwide and for the 20 states with the largest increases in diesel costs for planting key crops. It also includes state-by-state data that show how much more it cost this spring to fill up a typical farm fuel tank, grain truck, or tractor amid Trump’s war with Iran.
As of June 2026, the average household in the United States has had to spend $3,500+ more on goods and services under President Trump.
Jul 02 2026
NEW DATA: Trump’s Tax and Tariff Actions Cost Middle Class Families Hundreds of Dollars in 2026
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of when President Trump signed into law the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, a new Joint Economic Committee - Minority report issued today finds that middle class workers will lose hundreds of dollars in 2026 from the combined impact of the bill and Trump’s tariffs, while the wealthiest Americans receive massive windfalls. The report also includes new calculations on the combined impact of Trump’s tax and tariff policies for specific middle class jobs.
Jun 23 2026
NEW DATA: Businesses, Families Could Save Thousands on Child Care Through Underutilized Tax Cuts
The U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee - Minority issued a report today with new calculations on potential savings for both businesses and their employees through increased use of existing child care tax cuts. Scenarios created by the Committee and informed by conversations with experts and businesses show that a sample business could get $820,000 in direct tax savings over the first five years that it provides child care benefits to its employees and see an $8 million return-on-investment (ROI). A parent working at this sample company could save nearly $10,000 in child care expenses over that same time period.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, released today the results of her investigation into scams and drug-related content on Spotify, a major music streaming service. The report details the company’s efforts to identify and take action against more than 57,000 podcast episodes with drug-related content, but also notes that Spotify only took these actions after extensive public reporting and correspondence between Spotify and the Joint Economic Committee - Minority over the course of the investigation. Spotify also did not report to law enforcement any of the content that it removed in the six-month period that the Committee investigated.
Jun 10 2026
Updated State-by-State Cost Data: Families Have Had to Spend $3,100+ More Under President Trump
As of May 2026, the average household in United States has had to spend $3,100+ more on goods and services under President Trump.
May 21 2026
Joint Economic Committee Leaders Raise Anti-Scam Efforts with Major Telecommunications Companies
U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee Chairman David Schweikert (R-AZ) and Ranking Member Maggie Hassan (D-NH) today urged three major telecommunications companies to strengthen their anti-scams efforts. Chairman Schweikert and Ranking Member Hassan requested detailed information from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon about their current strategies to identify and curb scams. Their outreach follows testimony from administration officials and key experts at a bipartisan Committee hearing in March that focused on the threats posed by well-resourced, ever-evolving criminal scam operations.