Labor, HHS, Education

House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement calling for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be fired.

House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on President Trump’s continued unlawful withholding of funds promised to schools across the United States. While one of the frozen streams of funding for afterschool programs is being released – after Democrats and Republicans in Congress, schools, governors, and other state leaders spoke out – more than $5.5 billion for schools remains illegally withheld.

Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee; Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce; Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Appropriations Committee; Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP); and Ranking Member Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education issued the following statement after the Department of Education (ED) and Department of Labor (DOL) announced plans to transfer career and technical education and adult education programs from ED to DOL.

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair, and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya calling out the Trump administration’s reckless decision to terminate at least 2,370 active NIH grants, an illegal move that has upended biomedical research and threatened patients’ access to treatment, and demanding that NIH provide the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations the legal authority being used to terminate grants, a comprehensive list of grant cancellations, details on the impact to clinical trials, and the criteria used for termination decisions.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposed rescissions package.

Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) of the House Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) of the House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer demanding answers after DOL canceled dozens of Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grants. These grants were specifically appropriated by Congress and are vital to increasing the number of female apprentices in skilled trades and non-traditional apprenticeships.