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WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) delivered the following remarks on the House floor.

Speaker Johnson and the House Freedom Caucus have threatened to keep the government running on autopilot for the rest of the year, locking it into the current Continuing Resolution (CR) with no changes aside from the end date (a “full-year date-change CR”). Not only does this proposal lack credibility and support—from Democrats and Republicans—but it would also trigger indiscriminate across-the-board cuts that would hurt the American people and undermine investments in our national security.

The only way to avoid harmful across-the-board cuts is to enact full-year bills at the levels in the bipartisan budget agreement.

Until House Republicans are ready to follow the full terms of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA), they will continue dragging our country down a path toward a shutdown. Despite recent reports, House Republicans are not yet adhering to the full terms of the agreement when they say they support a $1.59 trillion topline, which appears nowhere in the text of the FRA. They would rather posture, delay, and cut the programs Americans depend on than get down to the hard work of governing.