MAGA Republicans’ Project 2025 Shapes Funding Bills

**WATCH**Experts, Community Leaders, and Advocates Highlight the Dangers of House Republicans’ Funding Bills

WASHINGTON —Today, Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, alongside several education, environmental, labor, and public health advocates, experts, and community leaders, discussed the consequences of the House Republican majority’s dangerous spending cuts and the harmful and discriminatory policy riders throughout all 12 fiscal year 2025 funding bills.

“Like last year, the Republicans’ basket of awful ideas has no chance of becoming law, but their harmful policies are part of MAGA Republicans’ Project 2025 takeover plan that hurts the middle class and favors their billionaire donors. At every turn, the Republicans are making abortion illegal, eliminating federal support for public education, undermining workers, and disarming America in the face of the climate crisis. Their policies make communities less safe and threaten national security. House Democrats will not support these funding bills that harm children, working families, seniors, and veterans,” said Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Appropriations Committee Ranking Member.

Congresswoman DeLauro’s full remarks are here.

“At a time when more than one in ten people are saying they sometimes or often don’t have enough to eat, when evictions are rising, and working families struggle to find and afford child care, it is unconscionable for the House Majority’s appropriators to cut domestic and international appropriations by 6-7 percent below this year’s levels. They are sticking to a rigid funding cap regardless of our people’s needs, even cutting the IRS so it cannot collect taxes owed by the ultra-wealthy and cutting Census survey funding that is needed to distribute federal funding to low-income communities. These are irresponsible choices. The failure to invest in our people will set our economy back, hurting us all,” said Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs Executive Director.

“Poison pills do not represent the will of the American people. They are a cherry-picked wish list of policies to benefit corporate special interests, roll back protections, and create loopholes to benefit big business. Special interest groups should not be able to circumvent the legislative process through this misguided budgetary practice,” said Rob Weissman, Public Citizen Co-President.

“The Coalition for Health Funding strongly opposes efforts to defund critical investments in public health and inclusion of divisive and damaging policy riders in the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations process. The cuts that the House majority has proposed will have severe consequences on women, children, and families. We urge Congress to reject these reckless and shortsighted proposals and provide the robust funding that is necessary to invest in the health, wellness, and safety of communities across the country.” said Erika Sward, Coalition for Health Funding President.

“The ongoing attacks on reproductive health in the appropriations process are not just policy disagreements; they are politically motivated assaults on the fundamental rights and health of all people, especially in marginalized communities. Proposals to slash funding for family planning and sexual health care are part of a broader agenda to undermine people's autonomy and control over their own bodies. Our nation’s family planning providers and administrators depend on strong federal funding to help millions of people access high-quality family planning and sexual health care they need and want. We stand firm against measures to eliminate funding for Title X and urge Congress to expand this essential public health program that serves as a critical pathway to health care for communities across the nationwide,” said Kim Diaz Scott, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association Vice President of Program.

“On behalf of the 4,100 students who walk through the doors of my school district every day along with 50 million students who are learning and growing in classrooms across the country, Congress must reject the proposed cuts for FY25 funding, NDD funding supports important domestic and international appropriations. It is a small—but mighty and impactful—portion of our government’s budget that includes education and funds a wide range of important services and investments that keep our country strong. Every city, county and state in this nation receives and is supported by NDD funding, and it is imperative that Congress act to preserve and protect these investments,” said Dr. Michael J. Barnes, Superintendent of Mayfield City Schools.

“I don’t care if you’re a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent — if you’re a working person in this country, these cuts will hurt you, your family, your community,” saidFred Redmond, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer.

“Extreme MAGA House Republicans will stop at nothing to continue to push their dangerous right-wing agenda as outlined in Project 2025. Nearly all of this year’s House Republican spending bills propose poison pill riders and budget cuts to environmental programs and departments in an effort to not only roll back the climate progress made by the Biden-Harris Administration, but also do the bidding of Big Oil. These poison pill riders are not only a waste of time, but are also harmful to the health and safety of our families and communities and have no place in spending bills. We urge Congress to reject these cuts to climate progress and the clean air and clean water protections our communities rely on,” said David Shadburn, League of Conservation Voters Senior Government Affairs Advocate.

“Once again, congressional extremists are attempting to slash funding for essential programs and services. These are the resources that enable AFSCME members to respond to emergencies, keep trains and buses running, ensure safe drinking water and keep our children healthy. The proposed cuts would put additional strain to an already overstretched workforce, hurting communities that depend on these lifesaving public services. Congress must make sure these reckless proposed cuts to the FY 2025 federal funding bills – and the radical policy riders that come with them – never see the light of day,” said Lee Saunders, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President.

Additional information on the fiscal year 2025 appropriations bills can be found here. A letter from more than 1,100 organizations highlighting the dangers of House Republicans’ funding bills can be found here.

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