  This statement from the American Linear Collider Committee to the P5 subpanel
has three purposes. It presents a brief summary of the case for an $e^+e^-$
Higgs factory that has emerged from Snowmass 2021. It highlights the special
virtues of the ILC that are shared with other linear colliders but not with
circular colliders. Finally, it calls attention to the resources available in
the ILC White Paper for Snowmass (arXiv:2203.07622). The ALCC urges P5 to move
the Higgs factory forward as a global project by assigning the idea of an
$e^+e^-$ Higgs factory high priority, initiating a global discussion of the
technology choice and cost sharing, and offering the option of siting the Higgs
factory in the U.S.
