Press Releases
March 4, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released new information on how a full-year continuing resolution would hurt the middle class and make Americans less safe.
Subcommittees
March 1, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Ranking Member James E. Clyburn (SC-06) released the following statement on unchecked billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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February 28, 2025
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair, issued the following statement on government funding talks.
Subcommittees
February 27, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), released the following statement on the firing of weather forecasters and other employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
Subcommittees
Issues:Commerce, Justice, Science
February 27, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Lois Frankel (FL-22), Ranking Member of the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs (NSRP) Appropriations Subcommittee, along with Subcommittee members Reps. Grace Meng (NY-06), Norma Torres (CA-35), and Mike Quigley (IL-05), issued a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio requesting detailed information regarding the status of USAID and State Department programs. The Members conveyed the letter following the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate over 90% of USAID and State Department awards after a rushed and opaque review of nearly all foreign assistance without Congressional participation.
Subcommittees
Issues:State, Foreign Operations
February 27, 2025
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D, OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair and Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Ranking Member, sent a new letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, demanding answers about the Department of Energy’s freeze of key energy investments. Kaptur and Murray pressed Secretary Wright to provide answers to questions they posed in a January 31 letter — responses that DOE has failed to provide—and to expeditiously release illegally blocked funding.
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February 25, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Ranking Member Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) released data on the estimated number of veterans fired so far by Trump and unchecked billionaire President Elon Musk.
Issues:Fact Sheets and Background
February 21, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Ranking Member Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) released a fact sheet detailing a few of the ways Trump and unchecked billionaire President Musk are stealing from American farmers. This new fact sheet includes district-level information on the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
Subcommittees
Issues:Fact Sheets and Background
February 21, 2025
Today, U.S. Rep. Sanford D. Bishop (GA-02), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee sent a letter demanding answers to the halting of all funds for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and provided a table showing the funds stolen from constituents by Member District.
Subcommittees
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February 20, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the top Democrats on the subcommittees that oversee funding for the Department of the Interior (DOI), demanded the Trump Administration immediately reinstate terminated Indian Affairs employees, lift the hiring freeze, and officially rescind the deferred resignation and early retirement offers. As Ranking Members of the Senate and House Interior Appropriations Subcommittees, Merkley and Pingree wrote to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum urging the Administration to instead work to strengthen and grow the Indian Affairs staff to best meet the needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives in accordance with our treaty and trust obligations.
Subcommittees
Issues:Interior and Environment