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WASHINGTON — During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2026 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Democrats fought against House Republicans’ bill that increases costs for rural communities and cuts funding for programs that support farmers and help hardworking people feed their families.

WASHINGTON — During today’s House Appropriations subcommittee markup of the 2026 Legislative Branch funding bill, House Democrats demonstrated how the bill promotes waste, fraud, and abuse and is filled with unnecessary partisan policies that were removed in the final bills the last two years.

House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their 2026 Legislative Branch funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation promotes waste, fraud, and abuse and is filled with unnecessary partisan policies that were removed in the final bills the last two years.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee; Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee; Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY-06), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi to denounce the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) interim final rule that illegally enables DOJ to restore firearms to convicted felons—and to call for the interim final rule to be withdrawn.