Press Release : Financial Services and General Government

During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2026 Financial Services and General Government funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how the bill makes the cost-of-living crisis worse, sides with billionaires and big corporations, and makes communities less safe.

WASHINGTON — During this evening’s House Appropriations Subcommittee markup of the 2026 Financial Services and General Government funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how the bill makes the cost-of-living crisis worse, sides with billionaires and big corporations, and makes communities less safe.

House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2026 Financial Services and General Government funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation benefits billionaires, big corporations, and the well-connected at the expense of the working class, the middle class, and vulnerable Americans. It makes communities less safe and enables individuals to commit fraud and sell dangerous products.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the introduction of a funding bill to avert a government shutdown.

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.

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 the second and final six 2024 regular appropriations bills.