Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) went crazy during a House Appropriations Committee Hearing on Tuesday, screaming at Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought over the Trump Administration’s cuts to foreign aid and federal spending. “The Trump administration unveiled its proposed budget for fiscal 2027 earlier this year, which includes a 40 percent increase to the $1 trillion defense budget approved by Congress last year, and a 10 percent cut to non-defense spending,” the Hill reports.DeLauro began her questioning of Vought, immediately accusing the Trump Administration of violating the law and asking about grants being reviewed and limited by political appointees. When she didn’t like the Director’s answer, she launched into a two-minute rant, lecturing Vought about the funding reviews and cuts to “science.”Stammering through her speech, DeLauro went off without actually posing real questions, declaring that the Trump Administration’s cuts are “wrong, and we’re not going to let it happen.”When Vought attempted to respond to her unhinged tirade, she cut him off and went crazy again, screaming, “You flout the constitution every single day, and you have been doing it for the last year and a half, and we again not going to continue to allow that to happen!”She continued, No president has the right to just violate the United States Constitution, and no member of this committee does that, but the administration is doing it regularly!”WATCH:!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u2vbt6g"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");Rumble("play", {"video":"v79vhhw","div":"rumble_v79vhhw"});Transcript:DeLauro: I think you made clear, Director, that you are not going to really carry out the spending laws as Congress intended, and that really is very, very troubling. Look, we’ve already seen OMB implementing political review of grants. It’s led to massive delays at NSF, the NIH — NIH has had about a 34% decrease in new awards in 2026 compared to what they’ve done in the past. And we understand that the decrease is due to new layers of political review at the NIH, at HHS, OMB, as well as the Office of Extramural Research, directives limiting the number of funding opportunities that are allowed. There have been cases where people are still awaiting approval, and political appointees have really denied the award going forward. The same problem is occurring across the government: Interior, Homeland, what is a government-wide problem. What can you do to address it? Where is the holdup? And, quite frankly, how would requiring a political appointee to approve every single grant improve government efficiency?Vought: Congresswoman, one of the things I heard constantly when we were considering the rescissions package last year, of which you all opposed, but one of the things I heard was, why wouldn’t you just eliminate just the small things that you have concerns with, and not actually take the number down lower, and the way that we do that, the way that we provide good oversight of federal dollars is to be able to assess and review how the agencies intend to spend the money, and that takes time. You don’t do that in the middle of a 30 day period after you pass the appropriation.DeLauro: With all due respect, Mr. Director, my heavens, we haven’t seen spend plans. That has been one of the biggest, one of the big problems, this committee hasn’t even seen spend plans that we’re supposed to, you know, get, and so that there’s a point— and this rule that is really in the process of comment, which you won’t extend the timing on, is really specific about who is going to review the grants, not on merit, but they’re going to go through a political lens, and there’s all kinds of restrictions on these grant awards. That is reverting a process, as I said earlier, that has been established after the Second World War.Vought: Can I give you an analogy? An analogy is that when I do the budget for the president, do you think I don’t rely on the career staff? It has a political responsibility for the line item.DeLauro: has a with all due respect, I got five seconds left, five seconds left. It is about political appointees making the decision, not people based— the evidence, and not based on, and particularly in health and science, not based on the science of the award that’s happened everywhere. I can quote you, I can talk to you, and you talk offline about the what’s been denied at Yale University that has to do with HIV suppression, Tourette’s, etc! Don’t tell me that these are — they do not meet the government’s priorities or the president’s priorities. Is it not to deal with Tourette’s syndrome, to deal with OCD, is not about somebody wasting money! This is science. It’s reviewed as it has been over 75 years, when these awards have been made, and you are all in the business of reversing that and putting all of these grants through a political lens and someone’s political ideology, it’s wrong, and we’re not going to let it happen. I yield back.Vought: I would just say that there was an election. The president was put in charge of the executive branch—DeLauro: The Constitution says that the appropriations process has is the power of the purse. You are ignoring that. You flout the constitution every single day, and you have been doing it for the last year and a half, and we again not going to continue to allow that to happen! No president has the right to just violate the United States Constitution, and no member of this committee does that, but the administration is doing it regularly!The post WATCH: Crazy Purple-Haired Rep. Rosa DeLauro LOSES IT and Starts Screaming at OMB Director Russ Vought appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.