Rosa DeLauro: “The protections of the FLSA would be seriously undermined by a pernicious Department of Labor proposal that would gut a…”

Circumventing Congress to divert money intended to help Americans who are exposed to HIV, influenza, tuberculosis, and other deadly diseases—and directing those funds to the Department of Defense—is beyond the pale.

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

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.

Whether a community receives disaster relief should not depend on who they voted for in the last election.