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WASHINGTON — Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued Russell Vought and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for unlawfully hiding the administration’s use of trillions of dollars in taxpayer money, by destroying a website that had publicly displayed all of these decisions, known as apportionments.

Elon Musk and President Trump are making life harder for middle-class families by freezing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds they desperately need following flooding, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, and other major disasters. They have already illegally frozen $10 billion in disaster aid, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told President Trump in a cabinet meeting: “We’re going to eliminate FEMA.” Additionally, on Friday, the Trump administration canceled FEMA’s lifesaving Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program making their end goal crystal clear: destroy FEMA and leave States and territories on their own for the next disaster.

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA-03), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, led a letter to Secretary Linda McMahon demanding a reversal of a new policy the Department of Education announced recently that suddenly upended departmental policy and imposed new red tape on states, which will prevent them from accessing pandemic relief funds they are counting on to support students’ learning.