Female congresswomen across the aisle came together on Monday, July 21 to strongly urge for the financial support of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
In 2020, the House passed a bill with bipartisan support to establish the museum, but funding has remained stalled for the past five years. Multiple attempts to move new bills forward have been blocked, and the fight to secure funding has stretched into the 2026 fiscal year.
Members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus and the Republican Women’s Caucus sent a joint letter to the House Appropriations Committee to press for complete funding of the American Women’s History Museum in the Fiscal Year 2026 federal funding bill.