Hill Heat

Join us! Rally to save NOAA.

Meet at the Department of Commerce headquarters, at the 14th St. NW entrance between Constitution Ave. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Subcommittee hearing entitled “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild”.

Witnesses:

• Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies
• Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director, Power the Future
• Scott Walter, President, Capital Research Center

Krikorian runs an anti-immigrant hate group.

Turner is a Republican operative and professional climate denier.

Walter runs a right-wing opposition research group and is a professional climate denier.

Subcommittee hearing entitled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness”.

On April 17, 2025, Trump issued an executive order entitled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness” calling for the deregulation of fisheries.

Subcommittee hearing.

Witness:

• Howard Lutnick, Secretary, Department of Commerce

Budget request

Full committee nomination hearing.

Nominee:

• Michael Boren, of Idaho, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment, vice Homer L. Wilkes, resigned.

The Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment oversees the U.S. Forest Service.

Boren is a Trump donor who gained local notice for his and his brother David’s litigious treatment in defense of Hell Roaring Ranch, their dude ranch in Idaho. He treats the Sawtooth National Forest as if it were his personal property, building a cabin, private airstrip, and suing to block the construction of public trails.

A co-founder of Clearwater Analytics, Boren has made a career in financial management and software development. On Feb. 24, Michael and Joan Boren, as trustees of the MJB Revocable Trust, bought a new condominium at The Wharf in Washington for $6 million, according to property records with the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue.

Trump’s billionaire budget is trying to fund handouts to Big Oil, tax cuts for billionaires, and mass detention facilities with our tax dollars. Money that should be used for life saving services like Medicaid and SNAP that millions of Americans rely on to keep their family healthy and their kids fed. Honestly this is only the tip of the iceberg. Trump’s budget is brimming with proposals that pad the pockets of his wealthy buddies and strip away critical government services we depend on. We’re descending on Washington to say No Deal!

People all over the country are already taking action - We know June will be a critical moment. It’s the climate movement’s moment to throw down and say NO DEAL! Join us in Washington DC on June 3rd.

Here’s the plan:

• Direct Action in DC: Take part in actions, meet with elected officials, and join our press conference. Together share powerful stories about how this deal between Trump and Billionaires will impact working families across the country. Together we’ll stop the worst parts of this budget.
• Confront Elected Officials at Home: When elected officials return home the week of June 16th for Congressional Recess we’ll confront them about the budget they passed, what they chose to fund, and what they chose to cut. (More guidance on this coming soon!) Details:

DC No Deal Action Schedule (6/3):

• 10:30 AM: Meet at Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church (201 4th St SE, Washington, DC 20003).
• 12:00 PM: Join a press address at the Capitol to deliver our message to Congress
• Rest of the Day: Actions at the capital targeting Members of Congress who can stop the worst parts of Trump’s deal with big oil billionaires

At Home No Deal Actions (6/16-6/20):

• Check out our toolkit here!

No Deal Endorsers: Climate Hawks Vote, 350Deschutes, Turtle Island Restoration Network, DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis, North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE), Oil Change International, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, Earthworks, individual, Public Citizen, North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE), 350.org, Stand.earth, 350 Triangle, Sunrise Movement, The People’s Justice Council, Sunrise DC, Mission Green Global, Methane Partners Campaign, Stop the Money Pipeline, Zero Hour, New Hampshire Youth Movement, Concerned Health Professionals of Pennsylvania, Alaska Wilderness League, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations

On June 2, 2025, we gather not merely for another protest, but for a prophetic stand—a Moral Monday born out of righteous indignation and holy imagination. As the cries of the poor grow louder and the policies of the powerful grow colder, we must rise. Across lines of faith, race, and region, moral witnesses will converge at the very steps where justice has been delayed, where truth has been trampled, and where budgets have become weapons against the vulnerable.

We will meet on the east side of the Capitol, not in silence, but in sacred defiance.

This is not a political stunt; this is a moral reckoning.

Why We Are Gathering:

• Because the federal budget is a moral document, and this one is failing the test.
• Because 68 million seniors should not fear losing Medicare and Social Security.
• Because children should not go hungry while corporations are rewarded.
• Because faith demands more than prayer—it demands public action.

Join Bishop William J. Barber, II, faith leaders from every tradition, and a remnant of clergy dressed in full vestments. Assemble at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 301 A Street SE, at 9:00 am. Then we march as a unified moral voice at 11:00 am to the Capitol steps in front of the Supreme Court.

We will not be silent anymore. We will not let injustice write the national story unchecked.

Business meeting to consider the nominations of

• Julie Hocker, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary for the Office of Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor
• Wayne Palmer, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health, Department of Labor
• Henry Mack III, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor
• Marco Rajkovich, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
• Kirsten Baesler, of North Dakota, to be Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education
• Kevin O’Farrell, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Department of Education
• Nicholas Kent, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary, Department of Education

Rajkovich previously served as the chairman for FMSHRC during Trump’s first term. Before joining the commission he was a lawyer in Kentucky and worked for the U.S. Steel Mining Company, Inc.

Palmer was principal deputy assistant secretary at MSHA from December 2017 to January 2021 and the agency’s acting head until David Zatezalo’s confirmation in November 2017. Palmer was most recently a senior advisor in the Department of Labor Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.

Historically, financial institutions have mandated risk transfer products such as homeowners insurance and, where required, flood insurance, as a protective buffer to avoid credit losses—that buffer has quickly eroded.. Through observed insurance premiums increases and the ever widening coverage gap between FEMA special flood hazard areas and actual disaster locations, lenders are facing a new and urgent financial reality: major weather events and dramatic premium increases are resulting in credit losses and foreclosures.

Join First Street’s climate implications team for a deep dive into the findings of the 13th National Risk Assessment, Climate, the Sixth “C” of Credit, the first national-scale analysis to quantify the connection between flooding, wildfire, and wind—and loan performance. You’ll learn how conventional credit models are missing hidden risk, particularly in areas outside FEMA-designated flood zones, where foreclosure rates are spiking after disasters.

Key finding: in a severe year, weather-driven mortgage foreclosures could lead to $1.2 billion in lender losses, with that number projected to grow to a potential $5.4 billion a year by 2035.

This webinar is essential for financial institutions, investors, insurers, and regulators seeking to understand the evolving credit landscape and apply climate-adjusted risk strategies.

Subcommittee hearing. Rescheduled from 9 am to 10:30 am.

Witnesses:

• Ken Isaacs, Vice President, Programs & Government Relations, Samaritan’s Purse
• Cameron Hudson, Senior Fellow, Africa Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Kholood Khair, Founder and Director, Confluence Advisory