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March 25, 2025
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.
Issues:Fact Sheets and Background
March 24, 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 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.
March 20, 2025
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:
Issues:Labor, HHS, Education
March 16, 2025
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.
March 14, 2025
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released the following statement on passage of Republicans’ full-year continuing resolution.
March 14, 2025
Democratic Members on the House Appropriations Committee sent a letter to Minority Leader Schumer urging the Senate to reject Republicans’ full-year continuing resolution.
March 14, 2025
WASHINGTON — Today, President Trump will claim he is working hard to restore law and order in the United States, while he actively and blatantly violates the law, undermines the U.S. Constitution in countless ways, and attacks the men and women who patriotically serve their country in the Department of Justice.
Issues:Commerce, Justice, Science
March 11, 2025
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 action to unlawfully eliminate Education employees’ positions:
Issues:Labor, HHS, Education
March 11, 2025
WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in opposition to Republicans' continuing resolution:
March 11, 2025
WASHINGTON — Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25), Ranking Member of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Innovative Techniques in Military Construction:
Issues:Military Construction, VA