Following Continuing Resolution Passage, DeLauro Calls for Bipartisan Negotiations on Full-Year Funding Bills

WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the House passage of a funding bill to keep the government open through December 20, 2024:

“Now that a harmful and pointless government shutdown has been averted, we must begin negotiations on final 2025 funding bills that can become law.

“It does not matter which party holds the gavel. In order to become law, government funding bills need the support of Democrats and Republicans in the House and in the Senate. House Republicans knew this when they wasted months considering extreme funding bills based on Trump’s Project 2025 agenda, with hundreds of poison pill riders and deep cuts to the programs and services Americans depend on.

“The path to successfully completing this year’s work for American families is clear:

• Democrats will accept nothing less than the one percent increase for defense and nondefense programs from where we finished in March, which was agreed to in the terms of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Any further increase for defense programs must be matched with commensurate increases in domestic investments.
• Republicans must drop all of their extreme poison pill demands.
• We must provide, in full, the dedicated funding for veterans who have been exposed to toxic substances, such as burn pits, that Congress promised when we passed the PACT Act.
• We must provide the critical disaster assistance that so many communities across this country are in desperate need of, including both natural disasters and the dramatic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland.

“If my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are serious about wanting to support our veterans, protect our national security, and help hardworking Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, they will turn the page on their partisan proposals and meet Democrats at the negotiating table.”

Additional information on 2025 funding levels can be found here and here.

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