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WASHINGTON —Today, Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro sent a letter outlining how House Republicans’ fiscal year 2025 funding bills are a clear signal of where Republicans seek to take this country. With this letter DeLauro released a new fact sheet detailing how Republicans are already carrying out Trump’s Project 2025 in the House of Representatives.

After hours of pointless amendment debate to appease their most extreme members, House Republicans ran away from a final vote on their harmful fiscal year 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill. This defeat comes after their Legislative Branch funding bill failed on the House Floor and House Republican leadership scrapped plans to complete all 12 funding bills before August.

Today, Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, alongside several education, environmental, labor, and public health advocates, experts, and community leaders, discussed the dire 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.

Today, House Appropriations Committee Democrats joined together to oppose Republicans’ 2025 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill. This harmful bill increases costs for rural America and cuts funding for programs that support farmers and help hardworking people feed their families.

Today, House Appropriations Committee Democrats highlighted how House Republicans’ misguided 2025 Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies funding 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. Republicans advanced their harmful bill on a party-line vote.

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.

The House Republican 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education bill, and its 11 percent cut of $24.6 billion, furthers Republicans’ goal of ending public education in America and eliminates job opportunities for young adults and working families.

Today, House Appropriations Committee Democrats united against Republicans’ harmful 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill. The legislation takes an aggressive anti-environment, pro-pollution stance with crippling cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and increase costs. The bill also slashes funding for national parks and arts programs. Democrats unanimously rejected the legislation during today’s full committee markup.