A bipartisan group of U.S. House members is inaugurating a Congressional caucus devoted to film and television production.
Representatives Brian Jack (R-GA), Laura Friedman (D-CA), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) on Wednesday announced the formation of the Congressional American Film & TV Production Caucus to gather likeminded lawmakers together on efforts to boost domestic production. The caucus will join the hundreds of other such groups centered around shared affinities and interests that exist in Congress.
“I am honored to co-found and co-chair the Congressional American Film & TV Production Caucus. My Congressional District is home to Trilith Studios, and I proudly represent the craftsmen, electricians, and carpenters who work hard to create movies that inspire generations of Americans,“ Jack said in a statement. “I commend President Trump’s leadership in calling for a legislative solution to bring film production back to the United States, and I look forward to working with him and my colleagues in Congress to achieve this important goal.”
The group is not to be confused with the Movies, Music, Entertainment, & Sports (MoMEntS) Caucus, which was also announced on Wednesday, by a separate group of U.S. Representatives led by Reps. Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), and Troy Carter (D-LA).
The Congressional American Film & TV Production Caucus is being introduced at a time when a coalition of Hollywood organizations and allies are pushing hard to pass a federal film and television tax credit, which gained fresh momentum two weeks ago when the idea was endorsed by President Donald Trump. Amid a global battle to lure Hollywood productions with financial sweeteners, the U.S. has lost ground in hosting film and television shoots, with consequences for workers and vendors. Industry advocates are banking on a federal incentive that can be layered on top of individual states’ tax credits to help stem the outflow of work from the U.S.
In addition to its remit of bolstering U.S. production, the caucus is also being positioned as a group that will educate members of Congress on the importance of making American entertainment on American soil.
“We’re launching this caucus to show that bringing film and television production back to the United States isn’t a partisan fight,” added Friedman — who is formerly a film producer herself — in a statement. “Film and television work is leaving this country because 65 other nations decided to compete for these hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs. A national film tax credit is how we bring that work home, and this caucus is a key step to build support for it.”
In making the announcement, members’ teams cited data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that found that U.S. jobs in film and television have declined by more than 100,000 since 2022. It also pointed to data from ProdPro finding that U.S. production spending declined 20 percent in 2025, while in the U.K. it grew 17 percent and in Eastern Europe it jumped 78 percent.
Members of Congress are unveiling the group as an early draft of the federal film and television tax credit legislation is being prepared.
Simultaneously, the industry’s lobbying on the matter has zeroed in on the potential economic impact of such an incentive. On Tuesday, the studio trade group the Motion Picture Association released a report estimating that a federal incentive could yield nearly $250 billion total gross value for the U.S. between 2027 and 2035 and support the equivalent of 143,500 full-time jobs annually.
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