WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, joined 23 Senate Democrats to send a letter calling on the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Financial Services and General Government to provide additional funding, beyond the recently released Republican budget proposal, for the Federal Defender Services program in the upcoming Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) bill.
In their letter, the lawmakers urged subcommittee leaders to fully fund the program at $1.76 billion, as requested by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, to maintain baseline constitutional requirements for federal public defense instead of ...