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Today, the House passed the Republican fiscal year 2027 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill. As costs for groceries go up, the bill cuts $200 million from fruit and vegetable vouchers for women, infants and children. While working families struggle to make ends meet, the bill decimates rural aid programs. A state- and district-level breakdown of the rural aid cuts can be found here.

During debate on the House Floor on the Republican's fiscal year 2027 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) delivered the following remarks:

Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) decision last year to steer hundreds of millions of dollars provided by Congress in fiscal year 2025 for the research and development of clean energy sources toward energy sources favored by Secretary Christ Wright violated the law.

While the 2026 appropriations process remains unfinished with no enacted oversight or reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released their draft 2027 Homeland Security funding bill to be considered in subcommittee tomorrow.

House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation is an assault on education and job training, puts health coverage for millions of Americans at risk, and abandons ongoing public health crises.

House Appropriations Committee Republicans today advanced their fiscal year 2027 Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies funding bill out of the full committee. While Americans struggle with the high cost of living, the bill makes it more expensive for Americans to keep a roof over their heads, commute to work and school, and have a chance at homeownership.

Today, House Republicans advanced the fiscal year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill out of the full committee. Instead of lowering the cost of living and confronting the climate crisis, House Republicans are raising utility bills and energy prices. The legislation takes an aggressive anti-environment, pro-corporate polluter stance with cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that endanger public health and fail to confront the climate crisis. The bill also guts resources for the arts and museums while failing to prevent the administration from misusing funds to build President Trump’s Garden of Heroes and Triumphal Arch.

Following the ruling by a federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia temporarily blocking the creation of President Trump’s corrupt $1.8 billion criminal payout scheme, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement: