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November 20, 2020
Today, the House Budget Committee released a report charting President Trump and his Administration’s systemic and deliberate abuse of executive spending authority and the Committee’s work to investigate violations, hold the Trump Administration accountable, and reassert Congress’ power of the purse.
November 20, 2020
Today, House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, and House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney published funding documents obtained from the Trump Administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that show the White House withheld expiring funds via an apportionment footnote – the same tactic used by President Trump to illegally withhold Ukraine security assistance.
November 17, 2020
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released new financial data, including information on Medicaid improper payments. To combat disingenuous and harmful claims by Republicans and Medicaid opponents, the House Budget Committee has released a report breaking down the data and debunking common attacks used to undermine the integrity of the Medicaid program.
November 12, 2020
Today, the House Budget Committee released a report on artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impacts on the workforce, American lives and livelihoods, and our economy.
November 10, 2020
Today, Committee Chairs across the House of Representatives sent letters directing the White House and more than 50 federal agencies within their jurisdictions to comply with federal record-keeping laws and preserve information responsive to congressional subpoenas and investigations.
November 6, 2020
Today, Kentucky Representative John Yarmuth, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the October jobs report.
Issues:Fiscal OutlookCoronavirus
November 2, 2020
Originally published in The Hill
As we await the outcome of tomorrow's election, it's important to know that, whatever happens, we will have the same leaders until January 2021. And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who famously saw no "urgency" for relief, has declared that there would be no vote on a relief package for the American people during the lame duck session of Congress.
Issues:Fiscal OutlookCoronavirus
October 29, 2020
Today, Representative John Yarmuth, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, released a statement in response to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)’s third quarter GDP report and in conjunction with a new report from the House Budget Committee outlining President Trump’s economic failures leading up to and during the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting recession.
October 15, 2020
Today, the House Budget Committee released a report highlighting statements from economic experts across the ideological spectrum on the urgent need for additional federal COVID relief.
Issues:Coronavirus
October 2, 2020
Today, Kentucky Representative John Yarmuth, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the economy added 661,000 jobs – less than half the gains seen in August and a clear signal of a significant slowdown in the recovery.
Issues:CoronavirusFiscal Outlook