Washington, DC – Today, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) offered several amendments to Republicans’ partisan budget reconciliation package to protect American families. Her amendments would have defended Medicaid from historic billion-dollar cuts, prevented the senseless termination of employees who work to lower health care costs and prohibited extreme tariffs and trade practices that exacerbate the housing affordability crisis.  “If Republicans wanted to keep their promises to the American people and actually lower costs, they would have voted for these amendments,” said Senator Blunt Rochester. “This partisan budget bill fulfills only one promise they’ve made, and that’s to lower taxes for the richest Americans. Our housing crisis has

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) joined the entire Senate Democratic Caucus in urging President Donald Trump to rescind his March 27 executive order to end collective bargaining agreements between public employee unions and dozens of federal agencies and bureaus. In their letter, Senator Coons, Senator Blunt Rochester, and their colleagues blasted the move as a “gross overreach” of presidential authority, asserting that the executive order is a clear attempt to gut the federal merit-based civil service and implement a system of political cronyism. They stressed that the order poses a grave threat to the ability of over 1 million federal

To watch the video, click here. Washington, DC – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) spoke on the House Floor today during a debate of Senate Republicans’ partisan budget bill. There, she discussed her amendment to combat the President’s extreme tariffs that will exacerbate the housing crisis. Below are her remarks as prepared. Yesterday, when the Budget Resolution came to the floor, I introduced an amendment. It’s a simple, straightforward piece of legislation that would protect American consumers by prohibiting tariffs that increase the cost of building a house. Not two days ago, we passed a bipartisan resolution reversing President Trump’s unnecessary national emergency on Canadian imports. That’s right