Republicans Fail to Pass Legislative Branch Funding Bill

WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13) released the following statement:

“Today, House Republicans failed to pass their own misguided 2025 Legislative Branch funding bill. This bill as written failed to move the institution of Congress forward and is filled with unnecessary, harmful, and discriminatory policies that were removed in the final 2024 bill. Instead of working with Democrats on a bipartisan measure that would get widespread support, Republicans included poison pill provisions that ensured it would receive almost no Democratic support. It is time for Republicans to join Democrats to govern responsibly, which is the only way spending bills can be signed into law.”

Congressman Adriano Espaillat’s full remarks on the House Floor are here, and Congresswoman DeLauro’s full remarks are here. Additional information on the bill can be found here.

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Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and the north-west Bronx. First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat is serving his fourth term in Congress. Representative Espaillat currently serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for funding the federal government’s vital activities and serves as Ranking Member of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the committee during the 118th Congress. He is also a member of the House Budget Committee and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), where he serves in a leadership role as the Deputy Chair as well as Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI). Rep. Espaillat is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. To find out more about Rep. Espaillat, visit online at https://espaillat.house.gov/.

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