Virtual Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen at the National Congress of American Indians Annual Convention and Marketplace

As Prepared for Delivery Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. It’s an opportunity for me to recognize the importance of your work advocating for and shaping strong Tribal-federal relations and policies and to discuss what we at the Treasury Department have done on Tribal issues over the past three and half years. From the beginning, we have worked in partnership with Tribal leaders. A few months after becoming Treasury Secretary, I became the first Treasury Secretary to attend a meeting of the Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee. I heard clearly then how much more we needed to do in areas from consultations with tribes to tax guidance. A little over a year later, I became the first Treasury Secretary to visit a Tribal nation.