Rep. McClain Delaney Votes Against Continuing Resolution That Guts Health Care, Makes Life Harder for Millions of Americans
Rep. McClain Delaney Votes Against Continuing Resolution That Guts Health Care, Makes Life Harder for Millions of Americans
Today, Congresswoman April McClain Delaney (D-MD) released a statement after voting against H.R. 5371, the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026:
"We’ve reached the end of the longest government shutdown in American history. While a resolution was long-awaited by many — especially the dedicated farmers, small business owners, and 35,000 government workers in my district — the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums will more than double as a result of this partisan continuing resolution cannot celebrate. For our rural health providers, SNAP recipients, and the families in Maryland’s 6th District who will lose the basic dignity of care they can afford, I voted against this CR.
“This fight goes far beyond politics, it’s about values. We pushed back against an Administration that has taken actions to make America break — break apart our agencies, defund our social services, undertake cuts which leave children and our elderly hungry, and undermine our faith in one another.
“While my GOP colleagues took the past 6 weeks off, I showed up. I volunteered at food pantries, held my constituents’ hands in community health care centers, met with farmers harmed by sky-high tariffs and low crop prices, and listened to our federal workers. Overwhelmingly, their input was: ‘keep on fighting for us.’ That is exactly what I’ve done from day one and through the final seconds of this vote, and what I will continue to do as we brace for the impact of this partisan spending bill.
“This Administration has spent weeks raising the stakes of this shutdown at a cost to the American people, threatening federal employees with RIFs, illegally withholding SNAP funds, and letting millions go hungry instead of brokering a bipartisan deal that serves our people. I want to be clear: the passage of this CR does not — must not — validate these lawless and cruel tactics. Our democracy is better than that, and the fight to do right by our working families is far from over.”