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House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) wrote to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on the Trump Administrations recent violation of the Republican 2025 full year continuing resolution.

WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement on Elon Musk and President Trump slashing $11 billion in lifesaving resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and $1 billion from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA):

Last week, through his unlawful executive order, President Trump took another step in his plan to eliminate the Department of Education. Next, he plans to eliminate Title I grants that help 26 million students learn. House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro released a new fact sheet detailing the number of teachers in each district that stand to be kicked out of the classroom, leaving millions of students across the country without a teacher.

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 joint statement after the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) moved to unlawfully hide how the agency directs agencies to spend taxpayer dollars. OMB hid this information by destroying a website that publicly displayed all of these decisions, known as apportionments.

WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro issued the following statement on President Trump’s recent step to unlawfully eliminate the Department of Education:

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement on the passing of former House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement on passage of Republicans’ full-year continuing resolution.

Democratic Members on the House Appropriations Committee sent a letter to Minority Leader Schumer urging the Senate to reject Republicans’ full-year continuing resolution.