Statements
Today, the House Appropriations Committee passed on a party-line vote the Republicans’ 2027 State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs funding bill, which forfeits American influence on the world stage, slashes humanitarian funding, and threatens women’s health around the globe.
Today—as the Department of Energy (DOE) makes funding available in defiance of the fiscal year 2025 continuing resolution—Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development renewed their request that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issue a legal decision on whether DOE’s allocation of these funds violated key appropriations laws by shifting hundreds of millions of dollars provided for research and development of clean energy sources to President Trump’s favored industries.
Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement after the House Appropriations Committee was notified, pursuant to the FY26 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill, of a series of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grants that the Trump administration intends to terminate:
Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on the District Court for the District of Columbia ruling that Budget Director Russell Vought and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are violating the law – which was authored by Ranking Member DeLauro – that requires public disclosure of the administration’s use of trillions of dollars in taxpayer money, known as apportionments.
Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Ranking Member Betty McCollum, and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Ranking Member James E. Clyburn, celebrated the passage of the three-bill appropriations package covering their jurisdictions.