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January 28, 2019
Chairman John Yarmuth issued the following statement on the release of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) updated budget and economic outlook.

January 28, 2019
CBO Estimates Trump Shutdown cost the economy $11 billion; reduced GDP by 0.1 percent in 4th quarter of 2018, 0.2 percent in 1st quarter of 2019

January 24, 2019
Chairman John Yarmuth today announced the appointment of Democratic members to the House Budget Committee.

January 8, 2019
Chairman John Yarmuth today sent a letter to the Congressional Budget Office requesting a report on design and policy considerations lawmakers would face in developing single-payer health system proposals.

December 20, 2018
Congressman John Yarmuth today issued the following statement after he was elected as Chairman of the House Budget Committee for the 116th Congress by the Democratic caucus.

December 10, 2018
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.

November 29, 2018
House Budget Committee Chairman Steve Womack and Ranking Member John Yarmuth today introduced H.R. 7191, the Bipartisan Budget and Appropriations Process Reform Act of 2018. The bill serves as an important vehicle to consider the final package of bipartisan recommendations voted on by the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform.

November 16, 2018
Ranking Member John Yarmuth issued the following statement on the completion of the Pentagon’s first department-wide audit.

October 18, 2018
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.

October 9, 2018
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.