Press Release: Defence

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on President Trump’s request for $67.1 billion in defense funding:

Republicans on the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee today advanced their 2027 funding bill during a closed meeting. The bill sets the Pentagon budget at more than $1 trillion – the largest in U.S. history and a $234 billion increase over 2026. The extravagant increase in Defense spending comes as Republicans propose steep cuts to domestic programs that support working people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) issued a statement after the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon is seeking $200 billion for President Trump’s war in Iran.

Representatives Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee; Betty McCollum, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense; Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Adam Smith, Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee; and Jim Himes, Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence sent a letter to top Trump administration officials set to brief Congress today.

Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro issued a statement in support of removing the Homeland Security funding bill from the six-bill minibus up for consideration in the Senate this week.

Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Ranking Member Betty McCollum, and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Ranking Member James E. Clyburn, celebrated the passage of the three-bill appropriations package covering their jurisdictions.

Today, the Appropriations Committees released the text of a bipartisan, bicameral three-bill funding package, continuing the Committees’ steady progress in fully funding the government before the January 30 deadline.

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released updated information detailing at least $410 billion in federal funding that President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought are holding up and denying communities across the country.