The House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee released its FY27 spending bill yesterday, and it heads to markup this morning. The draft bill would provide $58.5 billion in discretionary spending, an increase of $461 million from FY26.
Key features of the bill include:
- $50.36 billion for the Department of Energy (a $456 million decrease)
- $8.525 billion for the DOE Office of Science (a $125 million increase)
- $1.8 billion for Nuclear Energy (a $15 million increase)
- $9.75 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers
- $1.86 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of the Interior (a $211 million increase)
- $1.85 billion for Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (previously Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a $1.25 billion decrease)
- $300 million for ARPA-E (a $50 million decrease)
A summary of the bill can be found and the full bill text can be found .