Betty McCollum: “When our last bill that Mr. Joyce and I worked on left here at the House, it has $1.3 billion more dollars in it than…”

I urge the Republican House Majority to stop bringing these harmful and nonsensical attacks on our public health and the environment to the House floor.

Mr. Speaker, last week the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives decided that they know better than the residents of the District of Columbia what their local government needs.

Let me be clear--I will not write blank checks to the Department of Defense.

I rise in support of the FY2026 Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.