Rep. Hoyle Statement on No Vote for House Republicans’ Partisan Continuing Resolution
Bill hurts housing assistance for low income and working families, takes away Toxic Exposures Fund for Veterans, and cuts construction funds for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
For Immediate Release: March 11, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) votedno on H.R. 1968, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025–also known as the Continuing Resolution (CR).
After her vote, Rep. Hoyle issued the following statement:
“This bill enables the President and his administration to spend taxpayer dollars without accountability or oversight from Congress. I will not vote for legislation that signs away Congress’s constitutionally-directed responsibility as a separate but equal branch of government, especially to an administration that has made it clear their targetis to cut our earned benefits and destroy the services that working people rely on like Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. I will not give them the tools or the ammunition to dismantle our government and sell it to the highest bidder. I voted no.”
BACKGROUND
Cuts in H.R. 1968
The House Republican CR:
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Cuts $14.2 million in Community Project Funding (CPF) for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. In FY 2024, Congresswoman Hoyle secured $16.6 million for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District through the CPF process, including $2 million for a chemotherapy clinic in Curry County;
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Withholds $22.8 billion in FY2026 funding for the Toxic Exposures Fund that cares for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances;
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Omits $700 million from rent subsidies for working Americans, leaving 32,000 households, many of whom are veterans, survivors of domestic violence, and seniors, at risk of eviction;
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Cuts $1.4 billion dollars – 44% of the budget – from the Army Cops of Engineers construction dedicated to the safety of waterways, flood management, and marine ecosystem restoration.
Removal of Congressional Oversight in H.R. 1968
The Constitution requires that Congress appropriate funding and that the President see to it that those funds are dutifully spent how and where Congress intended. Numerous courts have ruled that by freezing funds or destroying agencies, the current Administration has violated the Constitution. By continuing to appropriate funding without bolstering protections for Congress’s ‘power of the purse,' this bill writes President Trump’s Administration a blank check with no guardrails.
This CR also removescritical Congressional direction. In each appropriations bill, Congress gives federal agenciesguidance and rules on how to use or not use specific funds.Omitting these directives gives the Administration more unchecked powerover how they use American taxpayers’ money.
The full text of the bill can be found, here.
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