United States House Committee on Appropriations
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Sep 19, 2026
Chellie PingreeGUEST
Every lawsuit we have has to come from an outside group, a labor union, an employee union, or an interest group, and we've had a hard time with the courts, and they recently decided on the ballroom case that that organization didn't have standing.
Chellie PingreeGUEST
So when is Congress gonna get the guts, when are the Republicans gonna get the guts to stand up for the power of the purse and our separation of powers? I guarantee you, and I've been in e- on the Appropriations Committee for a while, if this was a Democratic president, they would be all over it.
Chellie PingreeGUEST
They would be suing them every day of the week.
Jonathan CapehartHOST
All over it, suing them, impeaching them, hearings, all sorts of things.
Danny SheehanGUEST
this.
Danny SheehanGUEST
And he's sitting in a budget committee hearing in the House Appropriations Committee, and they're reviewing the CIA budget, and he says, what's this item here about miscellaneous interrogation equipment? And the CIA person says, well, that's like lamps and tables and chairs and stuff like this.
Danny SheehanGUEST
And he says, well, what's this item here about thumb screws? Bingo, it was over.
Danny SheehanGUEST
His whole political career was over.
Shelley PingreeGUEST
Congress has allocated, as you heard my colleague Joyce Beatty say, $257 million for the renovations.
Shelley PingreeGUEST
The Appropriations Committee, where I sit, also has given them $37 million a year to operate and run the building.
Shelley PingreeGUEST
So there should be no budget.
Shelley PingreeGUEST
bankruptcy.
Tavis SmileyHOST
To your point, a lot of black women, a lot of powerful black women in a lot of rooms these days.
Tavis SmileyHOST
We just talked to Sarah Anthony moments ago, who was the chair of the Appropriations Committee in the state of Michigan, talking about this big race in Michigan that you will know.
Tavis SmileyHOST
Abdul El-Sayed, some other key races in that state that progressives have a chance to win.
Tavis SmileyHOST
but she was talking about being chair of the Appropriations Committee.
Tavis SmileyHOST
I mentioned that Mary Sheffield is the mayor of Detroit.
Tavis SmileyHOST
I'm in L.A. We've got a black mayor here, Karen Bass.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
And so the Congress itself is set up to reward the people who are asking for money and not the people who are asking you to just leave us alone, let us do our life, and do the things you're supposed to do.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
And one time I went and I spoke to— a member of the House Appropriations Committee.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
And he said to me, he was very honest, and he said, we don't know what to do with you.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
You were the only person who's ever come in here and the people associated, like the local people who lived in his district associated with the Tea Party movement, you're the only ones who've come in and told us you don't want any more money.
David WaldmanHOST
So no savings there.
David WaldmanHOST
On Tuesday, Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, accused the administration of wasting money while weakening public service.
David WaldmanHOST
Trump spent billions to push out experienced and badly needed experts across government, Murray said.
David WaldmanHOST
This was the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse.
IndieHOST
Again, he's getting his money through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disseminating it through the Livingston Group LLC, so let's click on that.
IndieHOST
A prominent American political lobbying firm founded by Bob Livingston, another former Republican congressman who served as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
IndieHOST
If you don't know, the House Appropriations Committee is the one that actually authorizes the spending in the United States.
IndieHOST
It's an incredibly powerful position.
IndieHOST
The company represents a classic revolving door model between government and the private sector, where Livingston uses his old political connections in Congress to serve his foreign clients.
Michael HersonPANELIST
Obviously, he would have jurisdiction over it, but he feels this is the way to get the defense boost that they need not only to cover the cost of the war, but also to replenish our depleted weapons stockpiles.
Michael HersonPANELIST
Meanwhile, Republicans on the Appropriations Committee really prefer that the Trump administration start making an effort to reach out to Democrats and build bipartisan support for an emergency supplemental.
Michael HersonPANELIST
So we'll see after the election that meanwhile, the house knows that their blueprint was dead and arrival in the Senate.
Michael HersonPANELIST
So they now the budget committee chairman of their Jody Arrington is ready to go for the 350 billion now in reconciliation.
speaker_0NARRATOR
First, contact your representative and senators.
speaker_0NARRATOR
In June, a proposal to bar federal money from being spent on barriers in Big Bend National Park and the Big Bend Ranch State Park failed in the House Appropriations Committee on a party-line vote.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Congress has used that kind of funding prohibition to protect other places along the border before.
speaker_0NARRATOR
You can ask your members of Congress to support one for Big Bend.
Mazie HironoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You have been so drunk that briefings have been rescheduled so you could sleep it off.
Mazie HironoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When challenged by Senator Van Hollen at the Appropriation Committee hearing several months ago to take an alcoholism test, you agreed.
Mazie HironoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Senator Van Hollen has posted the results of his test.
Mazie HironoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We are still awaiting you posting your results on your test.
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