Republicans Unanimously Vote to Kick Teachers Out of Classrooms, Slash Job Training Opportunities, and Cut Critical Health Investments

**FACT SHEETS** House Republicans Kick Teachers Out of Classrooms and Deny Job Opportunities, Further Goal of Making Abortion Illegal Nationally, and Harm Social Security Beneficiaries

House Republicans Voted to Cut Office for Civil Rights, which Investigates Campus Discrimination including Antisemitism

WASHINGTON —During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how the legislation is an assault on education and job training, abandons ongoing public health crises, and eliminates funding for reproductive health. Democrats united against this bill that would harm hardworking Americans.

During today’s markup, Republicans offered an amendment to further slash critical resources, cutting the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) by $10 million. OCR is tasked with enforcing civil rights laws prohibiting campus discrimination, including discrimination based on national origin or shared ancestry, such as antisemitism. This amendment passed on a party-line vote.

House Republicans’ Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies bill provides $198.4 billion, a cut of $24.6 billion – 11 percent – below 2024. The legislation:

• Decimates support for children in K-12 elementary schools, furthering Republicans’ goal of eliminating public education.
• Harms women’s health by cutting programs that support maternal and child health, eliminating programs that provide access to health services and contraception, and adding numerous partisan and poison pill riders related to abortion and reproductive health.
• Slashes funding for the Social Security Administration’s operating budget, which would close Social Security field offices, extend wait times for retirement claims and customer service, and delay disability claims decisions.
• Abandons college students and low-income workers trying to improve their lives through higher education or job training.
• Surrenders to ongoing health crises by cutting funding for State and local health departments, eliminating funding for the Ending HIV Epidemic initiative, and defunding programs that address health disparities.

“With this bill, House Republicans are threatening the health, safety, and wellbeing of all Americans,” Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) said. “They are kicking 72,000 teachers out of classrooms—furthering their goal of eliminating public education—and decimating job training opportunities. While almost all of the 2025 funding bills we have considered this year have included attacks on women’s health, this one goes the furthest, blocking access to abortion, reproductive care health care, and contraception. House Republicans’ cuts to the Social Security Administration would mean closings and shorter operating hours at Social Security field offices, and longer processing and wait times for seniors and those with disabilities. This bill will never become law. But I thank the Republican majority for once again demonstrating beyond any doubt where they seek to take public education, health care, social security, and job training in this country.”

Congresswoman DeLauro’s full remarks as prepared for delivery are here.

A summary of House Republicans’ 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill can be found here. A fact sheet of the bill is here.

The text of the bill, before the adoption of amendments in full Committee, is here. The bill report, before the adoption of amendments in full Committee, is here.

A fact sheet with state-by-state information on how the bill kicks teachers out of classrooms and denies job opportunities is here.

A fact sheet on the bill’s attacks on women’s health is here.

A fact sheet on how the bill will impact Social Security beneficiaries is here.

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