Press Releases

A new joint report from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2883 and the Public Data Observatory found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have suffered estimated workforce losses of 30 percent, or more than 3,800 civil servants under the reckless stewardship of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and President Trump.

Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, released the following statement in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement of another release of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The Trump administration is breaking the law by attempting to unilaterally eliminate (or “impound”) nearly $1 billion in taxpayer funding that was constitutionally enacted – approved by the House, the Senate, and signed by the President – a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found. House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued a statement regarding the ruling:

The Trump administration used funding allocated for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” to pay for President Trump’s government funded political ads that started running last week. House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) released the following statement:

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s so-called “pocket rescissions” request.

Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member; Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government; and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government wrote a letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles demanding the Trump administration immediately take off the air a taxpayer-funded political ad celebrating President Trump—and report to the Committees exactly how many taxpayer dollars were spent creating and airing the illegal political propaganda.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued a statement following reports over the weekend that the White House is drafting a new executive order to exert further political control over who receives research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH):

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a letter to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Ho K. Nieh about the broad changes being made at the NRC to regulations, security, organizational structure, and more, which could threaten worker safety at nuclear facilities and impair independent oversight. The NRC has been quickly making these changes and rehauling the organization without providing time for public input or transparency.