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Chairman Steve Womack and Ranking Member John Yarmuth released the following statements after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today announced its legal opinion confirming Congress’s power of the purse and its central role in decisions to cancel appropriated funding, also referred to as rescissions.

Ranking Member John Yarmuth issued the following statement on the completion of the Pentagon’s first department-wide audit.

Ranking Member John Yarmuth issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s request for Cabinet secretaries to cut their budgets by 5 percent.

House Budget Committee Ranking Member John Yarmuth and House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey sent a joint letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, urging him to work with Democrats on a bipartisan agreement to raise discretionary spending limits and to adequately fund discretionary programs in the President's 2020 budget.

Ranking Member John Yarmuth today spoke out against the GOP’s tax cut 2.0 package on the House floor.

Ranking Member John Yarmuth issued the following statement after House Republicans released the legislative text for the second phase of their tax scam:

Ranking Member John Yarmuth issued the following statement after House Republicans released the framework for the second phase of the GOP tax plan.