Statements
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on President Trump’s unlawful withholding of funds promised to K-12 schools across the United States. These resources are provided on July 1 each year to help school districts across the country plan, budget, and spend federal payments for the upcoming school year, but Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has seized control of the Department of Education and is illegally blocking these taxpayer dollars from going to every state in the country.
In two legal decisions released this morning, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) reaffirmed that the President has no inherent authority to unilaterally freeze enacted appropriations. House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on these decisions.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released updated information detailing how President Trump is freezing at least $425 billion in federal funding that Congress has promised to communities across the country.
Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development released the following statement upon the news that the Department of Energy has cancelled 24 projects nationwide, totaling $3.7 Billion in investment in American manufacturing, including a $45.1 Million investment in an Industrial Demonstration Project for Libbey Glass LLC’s Toledo, Ohio facility.
House Appropriations Committee and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on a federal court’s ruling that President Trump and Secretary McMahon are illegally dismantling the Department of Education.