Markup of FY26 Financial Services and General Government Bill

Subcommittee markup.

Budget request

Department of the Treasury
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
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.
House Appropriations Committee
   Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee

06/23/2025 at 06:00PM

Markup of FY26 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill

Subcommittee 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.
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.
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
   Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee

06/23/2025 at 05:30PM

Modernizing America’s Rail Network

U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety, will convene a subcommittee hearing titled “On the Right Track: Modernizing America’s Rail” on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. EST. This hearing will examine the state of the U.S. freight and passenger rail network, with an emphasis on enhancing safety, improving efficiency, fostering innovation, and ensuring the long-term viability of the nation’s rail infrastructure to move American energy, goods, and people. The hearing will explore avenues for meaningful regulatory and policy reforms in the context of the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization.

Witnesses:

  • Ian Jefferies, President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of American Railroads
  • Peter Gilbertson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Anacostia Rail Holdings Company; on behalf of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
  • Husein Cumber, Senior Advisor, Brightline Holdings
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
   Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety Subcommittee
253 Russell

06/18/2025 at 10:00AM

The President's Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2026

The purpose of the hearing is to examine the President’s budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2026.

Witness:

  • Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy

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.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
366 Dirksen

06/18/2025 at 10:00AM

Green Budget Day of Action

Join us for the DC Green Budget Day of Action on June 16th!

Organizations and residents from across the District are gathering at 8am on June 16th at the John A Wilson building, calling on the DC Council: Don’t defund our communities and our climate in our local DC budget. After a press conference, green-shirted supporters will descend on the Wilson building, meeting with Councilmembers and staff, sitting in committee hearings, and taking creative action to call attention to the need to sustain DC’s local budget commitments to our neighborhoods, our climate, and our natural places.

Actions will continue throughout the day until 3 pm.

Why: We continue to see that when DC’s local budget is tight, DC’s funds to protect nature, ensure environmental health and justice, make energy bills affordable, support public transit, and reduce carbon emissions are some of the first to be cut. This has to stop. Our communities and our climate cannot wait. We cannot continue to sell out the District’s future, the health of our neighbors, workers, and communities, and the ongoing environmental justice fights in our city. With this day of action we hope to send a clear message to District leaders: don’t touch our green programs!

RSVP

Chesapeake Climate Action Network
District of Columbia
06/16/2025 at 08:00AM

Conflicts over Ocean Resources

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries, will convene a hearing titled “Finding Nemo’s Future: Conflicts over Ocean Resources” on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 10:00 am EST. This hearing will examine U.S. efforts to counter illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and explore opportunities to strengthen enforcement, coordination, and technological innovation. The hearing will evaluate existing legislative authorities and international agreements and examine policy options to advance maritime domain awareness and promote responsible ocean governance in the face of rising IUU activity.

Witnesses:

  • Gregory Poling, Director and Senior Fellow, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic & International Studies
  • Nathan Rickard, Partner, Picard Kentz & Rowe
  • Gabriel Prout, President, Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
   Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries Subcommittee
253 Russell

06/12/2025 at 10:00AM

Examining the President's FY 2026 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior

On Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold an oversight hearing titled “Examining the President’s FY 2026 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior.”

Witness:

  • Doug Burgum, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior

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.
House Natural Resources Committee
1324 Longworth

06/12/2025 at 10:00AM

Full Committee Markup of FY26 Defense Bill, FY26 Homeland Security Bill

Full committee markup.

Homeland Security:

Budget request

Department of Defense (DOD)
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
DOD Topline +113,300 In combination with $113 billion in mandatory funding, the Budget increases Defense spending by 13 percent.
Department of Homeland Security
Increases
Program$ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions)Description
DHS +43,800 Amounts for DHS in the 2026 Budget complement amounts that the Administration has requested as part of the reconciliation bill currently under consideration in the Congress. Reconciliation would allocate more than $175 billion in additional multiyear budget authority to implement the Administration’s priorities in the homeland security space of which at least an estimated $43.8 billion would be allocated in 2026. Reconciliation funding in 2026 would enable DHS to fully implement the President’s mass removal campaign, finish construction of the border wall on the Southwest border, procure advanced border security technology, modernize the fleet and facilities of the Coast Guard, and enhance Secret Service protective operations. Reconciliation would also provide funding to bolster State and local capacity to enhance security around key events and facilities, and prepare for upcoming special events like the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics.
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Program$ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions)Description
Non-Disaster Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Grant Programs -646 The Budget reduces FEMA grant programs. FEMA under the previous administration made equity a top priority for emergency relief, which will end. The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium will be eliminated.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) -491 The Budget refocuses CISA on Federal network defense and enhancing the security and resilience of critical infrastructure. The Budget eliminates programs focused on misinformation and propaganda as well as external engagement offices such as international affairs.
Shelter and Services Program -650 The Budget proposes eliminating the Shelter and Services Program.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Screening -247 The Budget reduces Transportation Security Officer levels.
House Appropriations Committee
2359 Rayburn

06/12/2025 at 09:00AM

A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the Department of the Treasury

Subcommittee hearing.

Chair Bill Hagerty

Witness:

  • Scott Bessent, Secretary, Department of the Treasury
Program Name $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase
Department of the Treasury
Increases
Rural Financial Award Program +100 The Budget creates a new $100 million award program from a limited CDFI program. This new program would require 60 percent of Community Development Financial Institutions’ (CDFIs’) loans and investments to go to rural areas.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) -2,488 The Budget significantly reduces the IRS budget.
CDFI Fund Discretionary Awards -291 The Budget recommends eliminating CDFI Fund discretionary awards, including climate reisiliency.
Senate Appropriations Committee
    Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee
138 Dirksen

06/11/2025 at 04:00PM

A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development

Subcommittee hearing.

Witness:

  • Scott Turner, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development

Budget request:

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.
Senate Appropriations Committee
   Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
192 Dirksen

06/11/2025 at 03:30PM