Press Releases
September 9, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought’s extreme request to kick the can down the road on government funding until January 31, 2026.
September 8, 2025
Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released updated information detailing at least $410 billion in federal funding that President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought are holding up and denying communities across the country.
Subcommittees
Issues:Fact Sheets and Background
September 4, 2025
Today, the House passed Republicans’ harmful 2026 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill that increases costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our national security.
Subcommittees
Issues:Energy and Water
September 3, 2025
During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2026 Financial Services and General Government funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how the bill makes the cost-of-living crisis worse, sides with billionaires and big corporations, and makes communities less safe.
Subcommittees
Issues:Financial Services
September 2, 2025
Today, House Republicans advanced their extreme 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies funding bill that is an assault on education and job training, slashes medical research, abandons ongoing public health crises, and eliminates funding for reproductive health.
Subcommittees
Issues:Labor, HHS, Education
September 1, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2026 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, slashes medical research, abandons ongoing public health crises, and eliminates funding for reproductive health.
Issues:Labor, HHS, Education
August 29, 2025
House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought’s unlawful effort to unilaterally cancel appropriated funding.
Issues:Fact Sheets and Background
August 28, 2025
House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement calling for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be fired.
Subcommittees
Issues:Labor, HHS, Education
August 21, 2025
House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision to allow President Trump to cut off National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants.
August 15, 2025
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, sent a letter to President Trump strongly opposing his attempt to undermine the curatorial independence of the Smithsonian Institution. In the letter, Pingree calls out the president’s plan to install political appointees—without relevant experience—to decide what American history is displayed in the nation’s museums and how it is presented.