Press Release : Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

After hours of pointless amendment debate to appease their most extreme members, House Republicans ran away from a final vote on their harmful fiscal year 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill. This defeat comes after their Legislative Branch funding bill failed on the House Floor and House Republican leadership scrapped plans to complete all 12 funding bills before August.

Today, Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, alongside several education, environmental, labor, and public health advocates, experts, and community leaders, discussed the dire consequences of the House Republican majority’s dangerous spending cuts and the harmful and discriminatory policy riders throughout all 12 fiscal year 2025 funding bills.

During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how the legislation is an assault on education and job training, abandons ongoing public health crises, and eliminates funding for reproductive health. Democrats united against this bill that would harm hardworking Americans.

The House Republican 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education bill, and its 11 percent cut of $24.6 billion, furthers Republicans’ goal of ending public education in America and eliminates job opportunities for young adults and working families.

WASHINGTON — During today’s House Appropriations subcommittee markup of the 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how the bill is an assault on education and job training, abandons ongoing public health crises, and eliminates funding for reproductive health.

House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation is an assault on education and job training, abandons ongoing public health crises, and eliminates funding for reproductive health.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on House passage of the national security package that includes the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024; Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024; and Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today called on Democrats and Republicans to unite and pass the package of three national security funding bills. These bills provide support for Ukraine’s battle against Russian tyranny and Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists, as well as security for Taiwan and deterrence against Chinese aggression, and to address humanitarian crises in Gaza, Ukraine, and other populations caught in conflict zones.