Terri Sewell votes against Republican spending bill

March 11, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) voted against President Donald J Trump's (R) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) continuing resolution to keep the government funded through the end of the current fiscal year. Sewell said that the bill would deprive Alabama's 7th Congressional District of $14.1 million worth of community project funding and inflicts devastating cuts on the programs that Alabama families rely on.

"I came back to Washington this week to negotiate a bipartisan measure to responsibly keep the government open," said Rep. Sewell. "But instead of working with us, House Republicans have put forward a partisan spending bill that cuts cancer research, kicks families out of their homes, and even slashes funding to preserve our civil rights history. Alabama families shouldn't be forced to foot the bill for Trump's billionaire tax cuts. I voted NO."

Sewell said that the House Republicans' spending bill will deprive Alabama's Seventh Congressional District of $14.1 million that were previously approved for 15 local projects.

The bill also:

Cuts millions from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which will directly impact UAB and other research institutions in Alabama.

Cuts rental assistance for working families, putting low-income Alabamians at risk of eviction.

Slashes the National Park Services' Historic Preservation Fund, which is used to protect and preserve the sites of the Civil Rights Movement.

Cuts essential funding for the Election Assistance Commission, which helps make sure the ballot box is accessible to all Americans.

Reduces support for homeless shelters and services.

Cuts the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) by 57%. The CDMRP is a hub for some of the most innovative research into cancer therapeutics, treatments that stand to disproportionately help Veterans and active-duty military personnel.

Sewell is also concerned with cuts and closures being made by the executive branch through the DOGE.

Sewell and the Democrats said that this spending bill would fail to reign in the chaos and uncertainty created by funding freezes, cancelled contracts, and closures of Social Security offices, Taxpayer Advocate offices, and GSA buildings in Alabama. This was something that Democrats wanted as part of the budget negotiations. Just last week a GSA website had the Greyhound Bus building in Montgomery – a civil rights movement era museum on a list of surplus property slated for disposal. That list has been taken down.

Just one House Democrat voted in favor of the House Republican spending bill to keep the government funded.

The budget now goes to the U.S. Senate for their consideration.