Statements
WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro released the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia paused the Trump Administration’s plans to put more than 2,000 critical U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workers on paid leave:
Washington DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Subcommittee, joined House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), to demand that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explain why he expects taxpayers to pay for a $50,000 ‘emergency’ paint job on his furnished government house.
WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro released the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Russ Vought to be the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):
WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro released the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island halted the implementation of an unlawful Trump administration policy to freeze federal agency grants, loans, and other financial assistance programs:
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro released the following statement after Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Matthew J. Vaeth rescinded his memo directing agencies to withhold vast swaths of approved and legally required federal funding.