News
October 18, 2025
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is spending $200 million of taxpayer money on a pair of top-of-the-line luxury Gulfstream G700 private jets during a government shutdown.
October 16, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement regarding U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston’s ruling blocking President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought’s illegal attempt to fire federal workers:
October 11, 2025
House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement regarding the reduction in force at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
October 10, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement regarding Office of Management and Budget Director (OMB) Russ Vought’s attempted mass firing of federal employees:
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October 3, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought’s announcement that he is terminating $2.1 billion in lawfully approved funding for Chicago’s public transit system.
October 2, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09) released a breakdown by Congressional District of the energy projects terminated by President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought.
October 1, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought terminating energy projects under the guise of the Republican shutdown
September 30, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro issued the following statement on President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought unilaterally and unlawfully defunding the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) through the apportionment process.
Subcommittees
September 29, 2025
Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released yet another analysis showing that the Trump Administration continues to violate the law by freezing critical funding promised to communities across the nation. House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement.
September 26, 2025
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s preliminary ruling that allows President Trump to continue withholding billions in foreign assistance approved by Congress—including amounts which he is illegally seeking to cancel through a “pocket rescission.” The ruling is not a final decision on whether the president can unilaterally cancel funding approved by Congress via a “pocket rescission.”