Press Release: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

House Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2025 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation defunds law enforcement, makes us less safe, and hurts our economy.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today joined Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-TX-12) and Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME) in releasing six fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills. This package includes the following funding bills: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies; Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies; Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies; and Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the failure of another two extreme House Republican funding bills, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Commerce, Justice, Science bills.

House Republicans today advanced their fiscal year 2024 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies funding bill. The legislation defunds law enforcement, makes us less safe, and hurts our economy.

House Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2024 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation defunds law enforcement, makes us less safe, and hurts our economy.

Based on information the House Appropriations Committee received from agency leaders in the Biden Administration, House Republicans’ reported proposal to cut fiscal year 2024 discretionary spending back to the fiscal year 2022 enacted level—resulting in a cut of at least 22 percent for essential programs—would endanger public safety.

Today, House Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Members praised President Biden's 2024 budget request. Reactions are below.

“I look forward to reviewing this budget and working with my colleagues in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle to pass final funding bills that continue to help hardworking people. As we head into budget hearings, I offer an important reminder: no Member, Senator, party, or chamber can do it alone.”