DeGette Statement on Defense, Labor-HHS & THUD Appropriations Package

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01) released the following statement after voting against the minibus funding package for Defense, Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS), and Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (THUD):

"This package includes real and meaningful wins for public health, medical research, working families, and communities in Denver. That includes funding for diabetes research and community health clinics," said DeGette. "However, good policy can only do so much when this administration continues to act lawlessly, bypass Congress, and drag our country toward unnecessary conflict while demanding ever-growing military budgets.

"I cannot fund an administration that is bombing multiple countries, threatening allies like Denmark and Canada, and ignoring Congress's role in authorizing the use of force."

The Defense portion of the package increases Department of Defense funding to $838.7 billion, $8.4 billion above the Trump administration's own budget request. That is in addition to the more than $150 billion already provided to the Pentagon under the Big Bad Bill.