Rosa DeLauro: “The cost savings around healthcare and the access to paid leave are integrally related.”

The Senate bill text is a clear improvement over the House Republican continuing resolution.

Not only is freezing the money in this proposal illegal, but the administration has also clearly been unlawfully impounding funds all year just to get to this point.

“I want to reestablish the COVID-era Expanded Child Tax Credit, which supporters say lifted millions out of poverty.”

These funds were provided for lifesaving medical research, not as extra money for the Department of Defense.