Press Releases

Chairman Arrington Statement on H.R. 5933 The DETERRENT Act “For too long, we’ve let foreign adversaries infiltrate and adversely influence our country through our wide-open border, the purchase US farmland and property near military bases, and the flow of foreign money to American universities. Rep. Steel’s DETERRENT Act will significantly increase the level of scrutiny on… Read more »

Chairman Arrington Statement on Voting to Withdrawal the Biden Administration's Income-Driven Replacement (IDR) Rule “President Biden has shown he has zero respect for the rule of law by thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court after they ruled his student loan bailout as unconstitutional and instead, is using an administrative end-run to do it anyway.” Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) and U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), led 65 members of the United States House and Senate in sending a letter to the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Tom Vilsack, expressing their concerns about the implementation of new changes to Emergency Relief… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) and Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) celebrated the passage of their bipartisan legislation renaming the interstate-designated segments of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor to “I-27”. The passage of this bill marks an important step in the project that connects the ports of South Texas to the plains of West Texas… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) delivered opening remarks at the House Budget Committee’s hearing to examine several legislative proposals to create a bipartisan fiscal commission. Watch the full hearing here. Watch the Chairman's Statement as Delivered HERE Chairman… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and Budget Committee Oversight Task Force Chair Jack Bergman (R-MI) today sent a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request a reevaluation of the legality of the Biden Administration’s withholding of congressionally appropriated funds for southwest… Read more »

Washington D.C. — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4821, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2024. This funding package bolsters America's energy independence, reduces regulatory burdens imposed by the Department of the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency, responsibly fosters the growth… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) issued the following statement ahead of the vote on The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which provides $14.3 billion in emergency supplemental funding to Israel:   “We must restore a culture of fiscal responsibility in Washington, which includes paying for all new… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) took to the floor to speak in support of his proposed amendment to the Department of Interior Appropriations Act calling to defund President Biden's recently proposed rule which would list two Rio Grande Mussels as endangered and their habitats as critical. The Biden Administration’s… Read more »

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the following statement regarding his vote against the expulsion of Rep. George Santos (NY-03): “The allegations against Representative Santos should be taken seriously, but in the United States, you are innocent until proven guilty.  Although Representative Santos has admittedly… Read more »