San Juan de Sabinas, Coah., May 16. President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo emphasized that the U.S. House Budget Committee initially rejected the proposal to impose a 5 percent tax on remittances sent by migrants to their countries of origin.
Questioned upon leaving a meeting with family members of the El Pinabete mine in this coal-mining region, the chief executive stated that the initiative will be discussed again in the U.S. Congress.
"It wasn't approved, but we have to be vigilant," he said as he left the facilities of the Technological University of the Carbonífera Region. He insisted that the proposal violates a bilateral agreement.
The Trump administration's tax reform package, which includes a proposed tax on remittances, suffered a setback Friday, Telemundo reported, when it was rejected by the House Budget Committee in a vote in which several Republican lawmakers joined the Democrats.
