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Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) issued the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Department of Education:
Richmond, VA – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) and General Assembly Members Senator Ghazala Hashmi (SD-15) and Delegate Mark Sickles (HD-17) held a press conference highlighting the importance of Medicaid to the state budget, local health care systems and warning against Republicans’ proposed cuts that would kick 630,000 Virginians
It was a tense week in Washington as the clock ticked towards a government shutdown. House Republicans completely cut Democrats out of the process to ram through a 6-month funding bill that gave Elon Musk and Donald Trump a blank check to continue raiding federal agencies and traumatizing the federal workforce to ultimately fund tax cuts for billionaires. Unfortunately, the Senate went along with the plan. It was a lose-lose situation, as both a government shutdown and the funding bill to avoid it would hurt Virginia.
Richmond, VA – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) announced the start of the 2025 Congressional Art Competition for high school students in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) issued the following statement after House Republicans passed H.R. 1968, a partisan funding bill that cuts billions of funding for health care, affordable housing, and veterans’ benefits:
During last week’s Joint Address to Congress, we all hoped to hear the President put the needs of the American people above partisan politics and his usual lies.
Instead, we got a rambling mess of a speech in which President Trump seemed more interested in creating a spectacle than actually putting forth an agenda for the American people.
Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it: Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) joined Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (AL-07) and 212 House Democrats to introduce H.R. 14, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill restores and modernizes the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2013 Shelby v.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswomen Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Doris Matsui (CA-07), and Nanette Barragán (CA-44), as well as U.S.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswomen Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) and Doris Matsui (CA-07) led 47 House Democrats in a letter to President Trump, expressing serious concern over the significant and harmful impact of recent executive orders to halt refugee processing and admissions and up-end the Special Immigrant Visa program for our Afghan allies.
Washington, D.C. –In case you missed it: Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), in an effort to raise awareness of the urgent need to protect Medicaid from nearly $1 trillion in proposed federal cuts, invited Jeanne Robinson, a Medicaid-funded home care worker who cares for her grandson with Down syndrome, to attend last night’s joint session of Congress as her guest.