Full Committee Markup of FY26 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill

Full committee markup.

Budget request:

Department of Labor
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Make America Skilled Again (MASA) Grant Consolidation -1,640 States would have to spend at least 10 percent of their MASA grant on apprenticeship.
Job Corps -1,584 The Budget eliminates Job Corps.
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) -405 SCEP is eliminated.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Increases
Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) +500 Building on the work of the President’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission and Executive Order 14212, “Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission,” the Budget provides $500 million for the MAHA initiative.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) -4,025 The Budget proposes to end this program.
Refugee and Unaccompanied Alien Children Programs (UAC) -1,970 Refugee arrivals have dropped significantly under Executive Order 14163, “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program.” The Budget proposes eliminating these programs.
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) -770 The Budget proposes to eliminate this program.
Preschool Development Grants (PDG) -315 The Budge proposed to eliminate this program.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Consolidations -1,732 The Budget consolidates a variety of programs that are part of HRSA, including the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program activities, such as: education and training (-$74 million); multiple Maternal and Child Health programs (-$274 million); multiple Health Workforce Programs (-$1 billion) which provide scholarships and support for individuals to enter medical careers; and family planning programs (-$286 million). The Budget maintains $6 billion for other activities.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Programs -3,588 The Budget proposes merging multiple programs into one grant program. Specifically, the Budget proposes consolidating funding for Infectious Disease and Opioids, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Tuberculosis programs into one grant program funded at $300 million. The Budget eliminates programs including: the National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion; National Center for Environmental Health; National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; the Global Health Center; Public Health Preparedness and Response; and the Preventive Health and Human Services Block Grant. The Budget maintains more than $4 billion for CDC.
National Institute of Health (NIH) -17,965 The Budget proposes to consolidate multiple programs into five new focus areas with associated spending cuts: the National Institute on Body Systems Research; National Institute on Neuroscience and Brain Research; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institute of Disability Related Research; and National Institute on Behavioral Health. The Budget also eliminates funding for the National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities (-$534 million), the Fogarty International Center (-$95 million), the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (-$170 million), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (-$198 million). This new structure retains the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The Budget maintains $27 billion for NIH research.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Eliminations -1,065 The Budget proposes to eliminate SAMHSA and eliminate funding for the Mental Health Programs of Regional and National Significance, Substance Use Prevention Programs of Regional and National Significance, and the Substance Use Treatment Programs of Regional and National Significance.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -129 The Budget eliminates funding for grants and contracts. In the Budget, AHRQ’s functions would be a part of the new HHS Office of Strategy.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Program Management -674 The Budget eliminates health equity-focused activities and Inflation Reduction Act-related outreach and education activities.
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Hospital Preparedness Program -240 The Budget eliminates funding for ASPR’s Hospital Preparedness Program.
Administration for a Healthy America— Sexual Risk Avoidance Program and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, HHS Office on Women’s Health, HHS Office of Minority Health -180 The Budget eliminates the Sexual Risk Avoidance Program. The Budget also eliminates the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program. The Budget also reduces funding levels for the HHS Office of Minority Health and Office on Women’s Health. These programs are under the Office of Assistant Secretary of Health. Consistent with the recently announced HHS reorganization, the Budget relocates these programs within the newly formed Administration for Healthy America.
Department of Education (ED)
Increases
Charter Schools +60 The Budget invests $500 million, a $60 million increase, to expand the number of charter schools.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Replace K-12 Programs with state grants -4,535 The K-12 Simplified Funding Program consolidates 18 competitive and formula grant programs into a new $2 billion formula grant. The Budget preserves full funding for Title I, the supplemental Federal financial assistance to school districts for children from low-income families.
Special Education Simplified Funding Program -- The Special Education Simplified Funding Program consolidates seven Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs into a formula grant.
TRIO programs and Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) -1,579 TRIO and GEAR UP are eliminated.
Federal Work-Study (FWS) -980 The Budget cuts FWS and distributes remaining funding to institutions that serve the most low-income students and provide a wage subsidy to gain career-oriented opportunities to improve long-term employment outcomes of students.
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) -910 The Budget proposes to eliminate SEOG.
English Language Acquisition -890 The Budget proposes to eliminate the English Language Acquisition program.
Adult Education -729 The Budget proposes to eliminate Adult Education programs.
Migrant Education and Special Programs for Migrant Students -428 The Budget eliminates these programs.
ED Program Administration -127 The Budget provides $293 million for program administration, a reduction of $127 million, or 30 percent with the intention of eliminating the Department of Education.
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Ed (FIPSE) and Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need -195 The Budget proposes eliminating this program.
Strengthening Institutions -112 The Budget proposes to eliminate this program.
Teacher Quality Partnerships -70 The Budget proposes to eliminate this program.
Training and Advisory Services— Equity Assistance Centers -7 The Budget eliminates Equity Assistance Centers.
Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) -75 The Budget proposes to eliminate CCAMPIS.
Howard University -64 The Budget reduces funding for Howard University to the 2021 Budget level.
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) -49 The Budget provides OCR with $91 million, a reduction of $49 million, or 35 percent, compared to the 2024 enacted level.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
House Appropriations Committee
2359 Rayburn

07/24/2025 at 10:00AM

Markup of FY26 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill

Subcommittee markup.

Budget request:

Department of Labor
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Make America Skilled Again (MASA) Grant Consolidation -1,640 States would have to spend at least 10 percent of their MASA grant on apprenticeship.
Job Corps -1,584 The Budget eliminates Job Corps.
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) -405 SCEP is eliminated.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Increases
Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) +500 Building on the work of the President’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission and Executive Order 14212, “Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission,” the Budget provides $500 million for the MAHA initiative.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) -4,025 The Budget proposes to end this program.
Refugee and Unaccompanied Alien Children Programs (UAC) -1,970 Refugee arrivals have dropped significantly under Executive Order 14163, “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program.” The Budget proposes eliminating these programs.
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) -770 The Budget proposes to eliminate this program.
Preschool Development Grants (PDG) -315 The Budge proposed to eliminate this program.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Consolidations -1,732 The Budget consolidates a variety of programs that are part of HRSA, including the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program activities, such as: education and training (-$74 million); multiple Maternal and Child Health programs (-$274 million); multiple Health Workforce Programs (-$1 billion) which provide scholarships and support for individuals to enter medical careers; and family planning programs (-$286 million). The Budget maintains $6 billion for other activities.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Programs -3,588 The Budget proposes merging multiple programs into one grant program. Specifically, the Budget proposes consolidating funding for Infectious Disease and Opioids, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Tuberculosis programs into one grant program funded at $300 million. The Budget eliminates programs including: the National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion; National Center for Environmental Health; National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; the Global Health Center; Public Health Preparedness and Response; and the Preventive Health and Human Services Block Grant. The Budget maintains more than $4 billion for CDC.
National Institute of Health (NIH) -17,965 The Budget proposes to consolidate multiple programs into five new focus areas with associated spending cuts: the National Institute on Body Systems Research; National Institute on Neuroscience and Brain Research; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institute of Disability Related Research; and National Institute on Behavioral Health. The Budget also eliminates funding for the National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities (-$534 million), the Fogarty International Center (-$95 million), the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (-$170 million), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (-$198 million). This new structure retains the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The Budget maintains $27 billion for NIH research.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Eliminations -1,065 The Budget proposes to eliminate SAMHSA and eliminate funding for the Mental Health Programs of Regional and National Significance, Substance Use Prevention Programs of Regional and National Significance, and the Substance Use Treatment Programs of Regional and National Significance.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -129 The Budget eliminates funding for grants and contracts. In the Budget, AHRQ’s functions would be a part of the new HHS Office of Strategy.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Program Management -674 The Budget eliminates health equity-focused activities and Inflation Reduction Act-related outreach and education activities.
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Hospital Preparedness Program -240 The Budget eliminates funding for ASPR’s Hospital Preparedness Program.
Administration for a Healthy America— Sexual Risk Avoidance Program and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, HHS Office on Women’s Health, HHS Office of Minority Health -180 The Budget eliminates the Sexual Risk Avoidance Program. The Budget also eliminates the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program. The Budget also reduces funding levels for the HHS Office of Minority Health and Office on Women’s Health. These programs are under the Office of Assistant Secretary of Health. Consistent with the recently announced HHS reorganization, the Budget relocates these programs within the newly formed Administration for Healthy America.
Department of Education (ED)
Increases
Charter Schools +60 The Budget invests $500 million, a $60 million increase, to expand the number of charter schools.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Replace K-12 Programs with state grants -4,535 The K-12 Simplified Funding Program consolidates 18 competitive and formula grant programs into a new $2 billion formula grant. The Budget preserves full funding for Title I, the supplemental Federal financial assistance to school districts for children from low-income families.
Special Education Simplified Funding Program -- The Special Education Simplified Funding Program consolidates seven Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs into a formula grant.
TRIO programs and Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) -1,579 TRIO and GEAR UP are eliminated.
Federal Work-Study (FWS) -980 The Budget cuts FWS and distributes remaining funding to institutions that serve the most low-income students and provide a wage subsidy to gain career-oriented opportunities to improve long-term employment outcomes of students.
Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) -910 The Budget proposes to eliminate SEOG.
English Language Acquisition -890 The Budget proposes to eliminate the English Language Acquisition program.
Adult Education -729 The Budget proposes to eliminate Adult Education programs.
Migrant Education and Special Programs for Migrant Students -428 The Budget eliminates these programs.
ED Program Administration -127 The Budget provides $293 million for program administration, a reduction of $127 million, or 30 percent with the intention of eliminating the Department of Education.
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Ed (FIPSE) and Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need -195 The Budget proposes eliminating this program.
Strengthening Institutions -112 The Budget proposes to eliminate this program.
Teacher Quality Partnerships -70 The Budget proposes to eliminate this program.
Training and Advisory Services— Equity Assistance Centers -7 The Budget eliminates Equity Assistance Centers.
Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) -75 The Budget proposes to eliminate CCAMPIS.
Howard University -64 The Budget reduces funding for Howard University to the 2021 Budget level.
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) -49 The Budget provides OCR with $91 million, a reduction of $49 million, or 35 percent, compared to the 2024 enacted level.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
House Appropriations Committee
   Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee

07/21/2025 at 05:00PM

Full Committee Markup of FY26 Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Bill

Full committee markup.

Budget request:

Department of Transportation
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Increases
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Operations +359 The Budget requests an increased amount of $13.8 billion. This funding level would support air traffic controller hiring and salary increases, as well as FAA’s ongoing updates to its outdated telecommunications systems.
FAA Facility and Radar Upgrades +824 The Budget delivers an $5 billion investment in the modernization of the systems and facilities that comprise U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). In addition to a previously-provided $1 billion advance appropriation, the Budget requests an additional $4 billion for NAS upgrades including a $450 million down-payment on a multiyear, multi-billion-dollar radar replacement program. A substantial amount will also be requested as mandatory funding through reconciliation.
Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program (INFRA) +770 The Budget provides $770 million, on top of the $1.5 billion in provided by IIJA, for the INFRA grants program, which assists highway, port, and freight rail projects.
Rail Safety and Infrastructure Grants +400 The Budget provides $500 million for Rail Safety and Infrastructure grants, a 400-percent increase over 2025 levels.
Shipbuilding and Port Infrastructure +596 The Budget provides $105 million for the Assistance to Small Shipyards program. The Budget delivers $550 million for the Port Infrastructure Development Program.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Essential Air Service (EAS) Discretionary Funding -308 The Budget proposes a reduction of eligibility and subsidy rates.
Electric Vehicle Charger Grants -5700 The Budget cancels an additional $5.7 billion in IIJA funding provided to the Department of Transportation for electric vehicle charger grant programs.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
State Rental Assistance Block Grant (Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, Public Housing, Project-Based Rental Assistance, Housing for the Elderly, and Housing for Persons with Disabilities) -26,718 The Budget transforms the current Federal rental assistance into a State-based formula grant. The Budget would also newly institute a two-year cap on rental assistance for able bodied adults. A State-based formula program would also lead to significant terminations of Federal regulations. The Budget includes $25 million in housing grants for youth aging out of foster care.
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) -3,300 The Budget proposes to eliminate the CDBG program, which provides formula grants to over 1,200 State and local governments for a wide range of community and economic development activities.
HOME Investment Partnerships Program -1,250 The Budget eliminates HOME, a formula grant that provides State and local governments with funding to expand the supply of housing.
Native American Programs and Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant -479 The Budget eliminates competitive grant programs for Native American housing and eliminates the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant.
Homeless Assistance Program Consolidations -532 The Budget consolidates the Continuum of Care and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS programs into an Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program that provides short- and medium-term housing assistance, capped at two years, to homeless and at-risk individuals. T
Surplus Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes Funding -296 This set of programs has unobligated balances that should be depleted.
Self-Sufficiency Programs -196 HUD’s Self-Sufficiency Programs are eliminated.
Pathways to Removing Obstacles (PRO) Housing -100 Consistent with the Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” the Budget proposes to eliminate PRO Housing, an affordable housing development program.
Fair Housing Grants -60 The Budget eliminates the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), which provides competitive grants to public and private fair housing organizations. The Budget also eliminates the National Fair Housing Training Academy, which provides training for Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) and FHIP professionals as well as funding to translate HUD materials to languages other than English. The Budget, however, maintains support for FHAP, which funds State and local enforcement agencies that collectively process about 80 percent of the Nation’s fair housing complaints under the Fair Housing Act.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
House Appropriations Committee
2359 Rayburn

07/17/2025 at 10:00AM

Markup of FY26 Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Bill

Subcommittee markup.

Budget request:

Department of Transportation
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Increases
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Operations +359 The Budget requests an increased amount of $13.8 billion. This funding level would support air traffic controller hiring and salary increases, as well as FAA’s ongoing updates to its outdated telecommunications systems.
FAA Facility and Radar Upgrades +824 The Budget delivers an $5 billion investment in the modernization of the systems and facilities that comprise U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). In addition to a previously-provided $1 billion advance appropriation, the Budget requests an additional $4 billion for NAS upgrades including a $450 million down-payment on a multiyear, multi-billion-dollar radar replacement program. A substantial amount will also be requested as mandatory funding through reconciliation.
Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program (INFRA) +770 The Budget provides $770 million, on top of the $1.5 billion in provided by IIJA, for the INFRA grants program, which assists highway, port, and freight rail projects.
Rail Safety and Infrastructure Grants +400 The Budget provides $500 million for Rail Safety and Infrastructure grants, a 400-percent increase over 2025 levels.
Shipbuilding and Port Infrastructure +596 The Budget provides $105 million for the Assistance to Small Shipyards program. The Budget delivers $550 million for the Port Infrastructure Development Program.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Essential Air Service (EAS) Discretionary Funding -308 The Budget proposes a reduction of eligibility and subsidy rates.
Electric Vehicle Charger Grants -5700 The Budget cancels an additional $5.7 billion in IIJA funding provided to the Department of Transportation for electric vehicle charger grant programs.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
State Rental Assistance Block Grant (Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, Public Housing, Project-Based Rental Assistance, Housing for the Elderly, and Housing for Persons with Disabilities) -26,718 The Budget transforms the current Federal rental assistance into a State-based formula grant. The Budget would also newly institute a two-year cap on rental assistance for able bodied adults. A State-based formula program would also lead to significant terminations of Federal regulations. The Budget includes $25 million in housing grants for youth aging out of foster care.
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) -3,300 The Budget proposes to eliminate the CDBG program, which provides formula grants to over 1,200 State and local governments for a wide range of community and economic development activities.
HOME Investment Partnerships Program -1,250 The Budget eliminates HOME, a formula grant that provides State and local governments with funding to expand the supply of housing.
Native American Programs and Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant -479 The Budget eliminates competitive grant programs for Native American housing and eliminates the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant.
Homeless Assistance Program Consolidations -532 The Budget consolidates the Continuum of Care and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS programs into an Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program that provides short- and medium-term housing assistance, capped at two years, to homeless and at-risk individuals. T
Surplus Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes Funding -296 This set of programs has unobligated balances that should be depleted.
Self-Sufficiency Programs -196 HUD’s Self-Sufficiency Programs are eliminated.
Pathways to Removing Obstacles (PRO) Housing -100 Consistent with the Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” the Budget proposes to eliminate PRO Housing, an affordable housing development program.
Fair Housing Grants -60 The Budget eliminates the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), which provides competitive grants to public and private fair housing organizations. The Budget also eliminates the National Fair Housing Training Academy, which provides training for Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) and FHIP professionals as well as funding to translate HUD materials to languages other than English. The Budget, however, maintains support for FHAP, which funds State and local enforcement agencies that collectively process about 80 percent of the Nation’s fair housing complaints under the Fair Housing Act.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
House Appropriations Committee
   Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee

07/14/2025 at 06:00PM

Full Committee Markup of FY26 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill, FY26 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bill

Full committee markup.

Budget request

Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Department of Commerce
Increases
Fair Trade and Trade Enforcement +134 The Budget includes $134 million to strengthen trade enforcement. This includes an additional $122 million for the Bureau of Industry and Security. These new funds would also increase antidumping and countervailing duty investigations.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Economic Development Administration (EDA) and Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) -624 EDA programs are cut. MBDA is fully eliminated.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—Operations, Research, and Grants -1,311 The Budget terminates a variety of climate-related research, data, and grant programs.
NOAA—Procurement of Weather Satellites and Infrastructure -209 The Budget rescopes NOAA’s Geostationary and Extended Observ by canceling contracts for instruments designed primarily for climate measurements.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) -325 Climate and environmental grants like NIST’s Circular Economy Program are eliminated.
International Trade Administration (ITA)—Global Markets -145 The Budget refocuses ITA’s footprint to countering China and securing access to fossil-fuel and mineral resources.
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Reduce State and Local Grant Programs -1,019 The Budget proposes to eliminate nearly 40 DOJ grant programs. The Budget eliminates programs such as Community Based Approaches to Advancing Justice, as well as programs that focus on hate crimes. Further, the Budget cuts Violence Against Women Act funding.
Cut the FBI -545 The Budget reflects a new focus on counterintelligence and counterterrorism, while reducing non-law enforcement missions, including DEI programs and intelligence activities.
DEA International Capacity -212 The Budget targets DEA’s foreign spending to Mexico, Central America, South America, and China.
Refocus ATF Enforcement and Regulatory Priorities -468 The Budget cuts funding for ATF offices and background checks.
General Legal Activities -193 The Budget focuses funding for General Legal Activities on the Civil Division ($441 million), and the Criminal Division ($220 million). The Budget reduces funding for the Civil Rights Division and the Environment and Natural Resources Division.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Increases
Human Space Exploration +647 The Budget allocates over $7 billion for lunar exploration and introduces $1 billion in new investments for Mars-focused programs.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Space Science -2,265 In line with the Administration’s objectives of returning to the Moon before China and putting a man on Mars, the Budget would reduce lower priority research and terminate unaffordable missions such as the Mars Sample Return mission that is grossly overbudget and whose goals would be achieved by human missions to Mars. The mission is not scheduled to return samples until the 2030s.
Mission Support -1,134 The Budget cuts the workforce, IT services, NASA Center operations, facility maintenance, and construction and environmental compliance activities.
Earth Science -1,161 The Budget eliminates funding for climate monitoring satellites and restructures the Landsat Next mission.
Legacy Human Exploration Systems -879 The Budget phases out the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after three flights. budget. The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights to the Moon with commercial systems. The Budget also proposes to terminate the Gateway, a small lunar space station in development with international partners, which would have been used to support future SLS and Orion missions.
Space Technology -531 The Budget reduces Space Technology by approximately half, including eliminating space propulsion projects. The reductions also scale back or eliminate technology projects in favor of private sector research and development.
International Space Station -508 The Budget reflects the transition to a commercial approach to human activities in space. The Budget reduces the space station’s crew size and onboard research, preparing for a decommissioning of the station by 2030 and replacement by commercial space stations. Crew and cargo flights to the station would be significantly reduced.
Aeronautics -346 The Budget eliminates climate-focused green aviation spending.
Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement -143 NASA will cut STEM programming and research.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
General Research and Education -3,479 The Budget cuts funding for: climate; clean energy; social, behavioral, and economic sciences; and other programs. Funding for Artificial Intelligence and quantum information sciences research is maintained at current levels.
Broadening Participation -1,130 All DEI-related programs at NSF are eliminated.
Agency Operations and Awards Management -93 This reduction to operations aligns with the Agency’s reduced size.
Department of Energy
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
IIJA Cancellation -15,247 The Budget cancels over $15 billion in funds committed to build renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other technologies. The Budget also ends programs for electric vehicle and battery makers and cancels the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) -2,572 The Budget reorients EERE programs to early-stage research and development programming, eliminating funding for Justice40. This proposal would support technologies that promote fossil-fuel and nuclear power and bioenergy.
Office of Science -1,148 The Budget reduces funding for climate change and renewable energy research. The Budget maintains priority areas such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, quantum information science, fusion, and critical minerals.
Environmental Management (EM) -389 The EM program performs activities at 14 active cleanup sites and operates a geologic disposal facility (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico). The EM topline is being reduced by $389 million, which reflects a reduction of about $178 million for the transfer of responsibility from the EM program to the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Savannah River site in South Carolina, where plutonium pit production capabilities would be developed. The Budget maintains the Hanford site in Washington at the 2025 enacted level but reduces funding for various cleanup activities at other sites.
Advanced Research Project Agency‒ Energy (ARPA-E) -260 The Budget reduces funding for ARPA-E, limiting support to research advancing fossil-fuel technologies and other technologies. Pollution-reducing technologies are not supported.
Office of Nuclear Energy -408 The Budget reduces funding for research on nuclear energy. Funding priorities include innovative concepts for nuclear reactors, researching advanced nuclear fuels, and maintaining the capabilities of the Idaho National Laboratory.
Office of Fossil Energy -270 The Budget restores the name and function of the Office of Fossil Energy to its original purpose, which is funding for the research of technologies that could produce an abundance of domestic fossil energy and critical minerals.
Corps of Engineers—Civil Works (Corps)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) Surplus -1,071 The HMTF, whose funding is subject to annual appropriations, finances operation and maintenance projects for the Nation’s water channels. The Budget reduces funding for HMTF.
Corps WIFIA program -7 The Corps WIFIA program provides direct loans and loan guarantees for non-Federal dam safety projects. The Budget eliminates this program.
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project -609 The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project, eliminating funds for habitat restoration.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) -2 The budget closes this office.
House Appropriations Committee
2359 Rayburn

07/10/2025 at 10:00AM

Markup of FY26 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bill

Subcommittee markup.

Budget request

Department of Energy
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
IIJA Cancellation -15,247 The Budget cancels over $15 billion in funds committed to build renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other technologies. The Budget also ends programs for electric vehicle and battery makers and cancels the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) -2,572 The Budget reorients EERE programs to early-stage research and development programming, eliminating funding for Justice40. This proposal would support technologies that promote fossil-fuel and nuclear power and bioenergy.
Office of Science -1,148 The Budget reduces funding for climate change and renewable energy research. The Budget maintains priority areas such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, quantum information science, fusion, and critical minerals.
Environmental Management (EM) -389 The EM program performs activities at 14 active cleanup sites and operates a geologic disposal facility (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico). The EM topline is being reduced by $389 million, which reflects a reduction of about $178 million for the transfer of responsibility from the EM program to the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Savannah River site in South Carolina, where plutonium pit production capabilities would be developed. The Budget maintains the Hanford site in Washington at the 2025 enacted level but reduces funding for various cleanup activities at other sites.
Advanced Research Project Agency‒ Energy (ARPA-E) -260 The Budget reduces funding for ARPA-E, limiting support to research advancing fossil-fuel technologies and other technologies. Pollution-reducing technologies are not supported.
Office of Nuclear Energy -408 The Budget reduces funding for research on nuclear energy. Funding priorities include innovative concepts for nuclear reactors, researching advanced nuclear fuels, and maintaining the capabilities of the Idaho National Laboratory.
Office of Fossil Energy -270 The Budget restores the name and function of the Office of Fossil Energy to its original purpose, which is funding for the research of technologies that could produce an abundance of domestic fossil energy and critical minerals.
Corps of Engineers—Civil Works (Corps)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) Surplus -1,071 The HMTF, whose funding is subject to annual appropriations, finances operation and maintenance projects for the Nation’s water channels. The Budget reduces funding for HMTF.
Corps WIFIA program -7 The Corps WIFIA program provides direct loans and loan guarantees for non-Federal dam safety projects. The Budget eliminates this program.
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project -609 The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project, eliminating funds for habitat restoration.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in this appropriations bill.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) -2 The budget closes this office.
House Appropriations Committee
   Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee

07/07/2025 at 06:00PM

Markup of FY26 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill

Subcommittee markup.

Budget request

Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Department of Commerce
Increases
Fair Trade and Trade Enforcement +134 The Budget includes $134 million to strengthen trade enforcement. This includes an additional $122 million for the Bureau of Industry and Security. These new funds would also increase antidumping and countervailing duty investigations.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Economic Development Administration (EDA) and Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) -624 EDA programs are cut. MBDA is fully eliminated.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—Operations, Research, and Grants -1,311 The Budget terminates a variety of climate-related research, data, and grant programs.
NOAA—Procurement of Weather Satellites and Infrastructure -209 The Budget rescopes NOAA’s Geostationary and Extended Observ by canceling contracts for instruments designed primarily for climate measurements.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) -325 Climate and environmental grants like NIST’s Circular Economy Program are eliminated.
International Trade Administration (ITA)—Global Markets -145 The Budget refocuses ITA’s footprint to countering China and securing access to fossil-fuel and mineral resources.
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Reduce State and Local Grant Programs -1,019 The Budget proposes to eliminate nearly 40 DOJ grant programs. The Budget eliminates programs such as Community Based Approaches to Advancing Justice, as well as programs that focus on hate crimes. Further, the Budget cuts Violence Against Women Act funding.
Cut the FBI -545 The Budget reflects a new focus on counterintelligence and counterterrorism, while reducing non-law enforcement missions, including DEI programs and intelligence activities.
DEA International Capacity -212 The Budget targets DEA’s foreign spending to Mexico, Central America, South America, and China.
Refocus ATF Enforcement and Regulatory Priorities -468 The Budget cuts funding for ATF offices and background checks.
General Legal Activities -193 The Budget focuses funding for General Legal Activities on the Civil Division ($441 million), and the Criminal Division ($220 million). The Budget reduces funding for the Civil Rights Division and the Environment and Natural Resources Division.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Increases
Human Space Exploration +647 The Budget allocates over $7 billion for lunar exploration and introduces $1 billion in new investments for Mars-focused programs.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Space Science -2,265 In line with the Administration’s objectives of returning to the Moon before China and putting a man on Mars, the Budget would reduce lower priority research and terminate unaffordable missions such as the Mars Sample Return mission that is grossly overbudget and whose goals would be achieved by human missions to Mars. The mission is not scheduled to return samples until the 2030s.
Mission Support -1,134 The Budget cuts the workforce, IT services, NASA Center operations, facility maintenance, and construction and environmental compliance activities.
Earth Science -1,161 The Budget eliminates funding for climate monitoring satellites and restructures the Landsat Next mission.
Legacy Human Exploration Systems -879 The Budget phases out the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after three flights. budget. The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights to the Moon with commercial systems. The Budget also proposes to terminate the Gateway, a small lunar space station in development with international partners, which would have been used to support future SLS and Orion missions.
Space Technology -531 The Budget reduces Space Technology by approximately half, including eliminating space propulsion projects. The reductions also scale back or eliminate technology projects in favor of private sector research and development.
International Space Station -508 The Budget reflects the transition to a commercial approach to human activities in space. The Budget reduces the space station’s crew size and onboard research, preparing for a decommissioning of the station by 2030 and replacement by commercial space stations. Crew and cargo flights to the station would be significantly reduced.
Aeronautics -346 The Budget eliminates climate-focused green aviation spending.
Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement -143 NASA will cut STEM programming and research.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
General Research and Education -3,479 The Budget cuts funding for: climate; clean energy; social, behavioral, and economic sciences; and other programs. Funding for Artificial Intelligence and quantum information sciences research is maintained at current levels.
Broadening Participation -1,130 All DEI-related programs at NSF are eliminated.
Agency Operations and Awards Management -93 This reduction to operations aligns with the Agency’s reduced size.
House Appropriations Committee
   Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee

07/07/2025 at 05:30PM

Full Committee Markup of FY26 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Bill, FY26 Legislative Branch Bill

Full committee markup.

Budget request:

Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase Enacted
Increases
America First Opportunity (A1OF) Fund +2,900 Support India and Jordan; repatriations; counter China and other near-peer rivals; and fund new activities.
Development Finance Corporation +2,820 The Budget increases the U.S. International DFC. This investment includes $3 billion for a new revolving fund to allow DFC to recycle any realized returns from its initial investments without further appropriation.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Economic Support Fund, Development Assistance, Democracy Fund, and Assistance for Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia -8,326 The Budget eliminates funding for these programs and replaces them with the single A1OF and the DFC. International Disaster Assistance,
Migration and Refugee Assistance, and Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA)—International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA) -3,207 The Budget reduces disaster assistance. The Budget provides $1.5 billion in ERMA for the President to use at his discretion and consolidates accounts into a new $2.5 billion IHA account.
State and USAID Operations -2,462 Consistent with Executive Order 14169, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” the Budget reorganizes USAID into the Department of State.
International Narcotics Control & Law Enforcement (INCLE) -1,160 The majority of INCLE funds go to reforming criminal justice systems in foreign governments, rather than to narcotics enforcement, which is primarily undertaken by: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Central Intelligence Agency; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and Department of Defense (DOD) elements. The Budget eliminates rule-of-law programs, while providing $125 million to fund programs that support counter-drug, organized crime, and border security missions.
Peacekeeping Missions -1,614 The Budget does not provide funding for United Nations (UN) and other peacekeeping missions.
Assessed and Voluntary Contributions to International Organizations -1,716 The Budget pauses most assessed and all voluntary contributions to UN and other international organizations, including for the UN Regular Budget, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the World Health Organization. This is consistent with Executive Order 14199, “Withdrawing the United States From and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations.” The President can choose to fund these international organizations out of the A1OF if he chooses.
Educational and Cultural Exchanges -691
Transition Initiatives (TI) -75 TI funds short-term assistance that aims to shape political outcomes in countries. The Budget eliminates the TI account.
Complex Crisis Fund -55 The Complex Crisis Fund is a fund for nation-building projects. The Budget eliminates this account and redirects crisis funding to the IHA and ERMA accounts.
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -315 The Budget eliminates funding for NED.
Global Health Programs/Family Planning -6,233 The United States is the largest global contributor to programs that provide family planning. The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funding is preserved for any current beneficiaries.
Food for Peace (Title II) -1,619 The Food for Peace program spends $1.6 billion to ship food overseas.
Contribution to the Global Environmental Facility and Climate Investment Funds -275 The Budget proposes to eliminate contributions to the Global Environment Facility and the Climate Investment Funds.
Contributions to Multilateral Development Banks (African Development Bank, African Development Fund) -555 Consistent with Executive Order 14169, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” the Budget proposes to eliminate contributions to the African Development Fund. The Budget also includes $3.2 billion over three years for the U.S. Government contribution to the International Development Association.
Other Treasury International Reductions -86 The Budget proposes to eliminate several of the Department of the Treasury’s international assistance programs, including the Debt Restructuring account, and contributions to the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in this appropriations bill.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
House Appropriations Committee
2359 Rayburn

06/27/2025 at 10:00AM

Full Committee Markup of FY26 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill, FY26 Financial Services and General Government Bill

Full committee markup.

Budget request

Department of the Interior (DOI)
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project -609 The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project.
Operation of the National Park System -900 The Budget would transfer most properties to State-level management. Achieving a $900 million cut to operations would require eliminating funding for roughly 350 park sites, 75 percent of the total.
NPS Historic Preservation Fund -158 The Budget eliminates almost all funding except for projects in partnership with HBCUs.
NPS Construction -73 This reduction complements the Administration’s goals transferring most parks to State and tribal governments.
NPS National Recreation and Preservation -77
Bureau of Indian Affairs Programs that Support Tribal Self-Governance and Tribal Communities -617 The Budget eliminates the Indian Guaranteed Loan program for tribal business development. The Budget also terminates the Indian Land Consolidation Program. In addition, the Budget also reduces funding for programs that directly fund tribal operations such as roads, housing, and social services.
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Public Safety and Justice -107 The Budget cuts the tribal law enforcement program by 20 percent.
Bureau of Indian Education Construction -187 The Budget eliminates funding for construction of tribal schools.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Surveys, Investigations, and Research programs -564 USGS provides science information on natural hazards, ecosystems, water, energy and mineral resources, and mapping of Earth’s features. The Budget eliminates programs that provide grants to universities and crucial climate science initiatives and instead focuses on support for minerals and fossil fuel extraction.
Bureau of Land Management Conservation Programs -198 The Budget proposes deep reductions. The Budget also reduces the Wildlife and Aquatic Habitat Management program.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) State, Tribal, and NGO Conservation Grant Programs -170 The Budget eliminates USFWS grant programs that fund conservation of species managed by States, Tribes, and other nations.
Renewable Energy Programs -80 The Budget proposes to eliminate support for renewable energy deployment.
USFWS Ecological Services -37 USFWS’ Ecological Services program and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources are jointly responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Budget consolidates these two programs into a single program housed within DOI with significantly reduced funding.
Federal Wildland Fire Service (consolidation of USDA and DOI Wildland Fire Management programs under a unified agency within DOI) -- Federal wildfire risk mitigation and suppression responsibilities currently are split across five agencies in two departments: the U.S. Forest Service in USDA and BIA, Bureau of Land Management, USFWS, and NPS in DOI. The Budget consolidates the Federal wildland fire responsibilities into a single new Federal Wildland Fire Service at DOI, including transferring USDA’s current wildland fire management responsibilities.
Department of Agriculture
Forest Service Operations -391 The Budget reduces funding for expenses including salaries and facility leases.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Program Name $ Change Enacted from 2025 (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Increases
Drinking Water Programs +9 The Budget provides $124 million in funding for the drinking water mission at EPA. The $9 million increase from the 2025 enacted level is to equip EPA with funds to respond to drinking water disasters.
Indian Reservation Drinking Water Program +27 The Budget increases funding for Tribes to retain access to funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure on their lands, with a total level of $31 million for the grant program.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds -2,460 The Budget provides the decreased funding level of $305 million total.
Categorical Grants -1,006 The Budget includes the elimination of 16 categorical grants, and maintains funding at 2025 enacted levels for Tribes.
Hazardous Substance Superfund -254 The IIJA and the Inflation Reduction Act helped finance the Superfund program.
Office of Research and Development -235 The Budget puts an end to research grants, environmental justice work, climate research, and modeling that influences regulations. The Budget provides $281 million.
Environmental Justice -100 EPA’s environmental justice program is eliminated in line with the vision the President set forth in Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” and Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants -90 This program is eliminated.
Atmospheric Protection Program -100 The Atmospheric Protection Program imposes climate change regulations. This program is eliminated in the 2026 Budget.
Department of the Treasury
Increases
Rural Financial Award Program +100 The Budget creates a new $100 million award program that would require 60 percent of Community Development Financial Institutions’ (CDFIs’) loans and investments to go to rural areas.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) -2,488 The Budget reflects a planned 40% cut in personnel.
CDFI Fund Discretionary Awards -291 The Budget recommends eliminating CDFI Fund discretionary awards.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Entrepreneurial Development Programs (EDP) Consolidation -167 Therefore, the Budget ends 15 programs, leaving only the Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) program. Eliminated programs include Women’s Business Centers and SCORE.
Salaries and Expenses (S&E) -111 The Budget provides $250 million for SBA’s S&E. The reduced S&E request also reflects a reduction in staffing costs associated with consolidating the Agency’s EDP.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) -2 The budget closes this office.
House Appropriations Committee
2359 Rayburn

06/26/2025 at 10:00AM

Markup of FY26 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs

Subcommittee markup.

Budget request:

Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase Enacted
Increases
America First Opportunity (A1OF) Fund +2,900 Support India and Jordan; repatriations; counter China and other near-peer rivals; and fund new activities.
Development Finance Corporation +2,820 The Budget increases the U.S. International DFC. This investment includes $3 billion for a new revolving fund to allow DFC to recycle any realized returns from its initial investments without further appropriation.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Economic Support Fund, Development Assistance, Democracy Fund, and Assistance for Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia -8,326 The Budget eliminates funding for these programs and replaces them with the single A1OF and the DFC. International Disaster Assistance,
Migration and Refugee Assistance, and Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA)—International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA) -3,207 The Budget reduces disaster assistance. The Budget provides $1.5 billion in ERMA for the President to use at his discretion and consolidates accounts into a new $2.5 billion IHA account.
State and USAID Operations -2,462 Consistent with Executive Order 14169, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” the Budget reorganizes USAID into the Department of State.
International Narcotics Control & Law Enforcement (INCLE) -1,160 The majority of INCLE funds go to reforming criminal justice systems in foreign governments, rather than to narcotics enforcement, which is primarily undertaken by: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Central Intelligence Agency; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and Department of Defense (DOD) elements. The Budget eliminates rule-of-law programs, while providing $125 million to fund programs that support counter-drug, organized crime, and border security missions.
Peacekeeping Missions -1,614 The Budget does not provide funding for United Nations (UN) and other peacekeeping missions.
Assessed and Voluntary Contributions to International Organizations -1,716 The Budget pauses most assessed and all voluntary contributions to UN and other international organizations, including for the UN Regular Budget, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the World Health Organization. This is consistent with Executive Order 14199, “Withdrawing the United States From and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations.” The President can choose to fund these international organizations out of the A1OF if he chooses.
Educational and Cultural Exchanges -691
Transition Initiatives (TI) -75 TI funds short-term assistance that aims to shape political outcomes in countries. The Budget eliminates the TI account.
Complex Crisis Fund -55 The Complex Crisis Fund is a fund for nation-building projects. The Budget eliminates this account and redirects crisis funding to the IHA and ERMA accounts.
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -315 The Budget eliminates funding for NED.
Global Health Programs/Family Planning -6,233 The United States is the largest global contributor to programs that provide family planning. The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funding is preserved for any current beneficiaries.
Food for Peace (Title II) -1,619 The Food for Peace program spends $1.6 billion to ship food overseas.
Contribution to the Global Environmental Facility and Climate Investment Funds -275 The Budget proposes to eliminate contributions to the Global Environment Facility and the Climate Investment Funds.
Contributions to Multilateral Development Banks (African Development Bank, African Development Fund) -555 Consistent with Executive Order 14169, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” the Budget proposes to eliminate contributions to the African Development Fund. The Budget also includes $3.2 billion over three years for the U.S. Government contribution to the International Development Association.
Other Treasury International Reductions -86 The Budget proposes to eliminate several of the Department of the Treasury’s international assistance programs, including the Debt Restructuring account, and contributions to the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program.
Small Agency Eliminations
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
  • 400 Years of African American History Commission
  • Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
  • Inter-American Foundation
  • Marine Mammal Commission
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
  • U.S. African Development Foundation
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media
  • U.S. Institute of Peace
  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Presidio Trust
-3,586 The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in this appropriations bill.
  • Delta Regional Authority
  • Denali Commission
  • Northern Border Regional Commission
  • Southeast Crescent Regional Commission
  • Southwest Border Regional Commission
  • Great Lakes Authority
The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million.
House Appropriations Committee
   National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee

06/24/2025 at 10:00AM