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Lawmakers and Experts Call for Institutional Reform to U.S. Economic Statecraft
Summary
At a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, members and outside experts urged stronger leadership, clearer strategy, and institutional changes to align economic policy with U.S. foreign policy, including proposals to elevate economic security inside the State Department and create new interagency coordination mechanisms.
At a House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific hearing, lawmakers and four outside experts urged structural reforms to U.S. economic statecraft, saying current authority and capacity are scattered across dozens of agencies.
The hearing focused on whether and how to elevate economic statecraft as a permanent, leading function of U.S. foreign policy and how the Department of State should be organized and resourced to carry that function.
Why it matters: Witnesses said poorly aligned institutional structures hamper the United States’ ability to use trade, investment, sanctions and other economic tools quickly and coherently in crises and competition, and they recommended specific leadership and staffing changes to close gaps.
Elaine Dzanski, senior director and…
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