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House Releases Energy-Water Appropriations Bill

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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 .

CJS Bill Clears House Appropriations Committee

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After a markup session during which numerous amendments were considered, the House Appropriations Committee adopted its FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science funding bill by a vote of 32 – 28.

The bill, which funds a number of science agencies, including NSF, NOAA, NASA, and NIST, is available聽.

The text of the report, which details how the funds are to be spent, is available .

 

 

Report for House Commerce-Justice-Science Approps Bill Now Available

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In preparation for its markup tomorrow morning, the House Appropriations Committee has released the report that accompanies the FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill.聽 The report includes details on funding levels provided to the agencies.聽 The report is available .

NSF

NSF would be funded at $7.0 billion under this bill, a decrease of $1.75 billion below the current level.

The Research and Related Activities account would be funded at $6.44 billion, a decrease of $736 million.

The Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction would receive $172.95 million, which is $78.1 million below the current level.

Although the entire National Science Board has been dismissed, the bill appropriates $3.05 million to the board.

NOAA

The bill appropriates a total of $5.85 billion to NOAA, a cut of $319.8 million.

Within NOAA, activities funded by the Operations, Research, and Facilities account would see a total of $4.69 billion, of which $4.01 billion would be from direct appropriations and $659 million would be from a transfer of funds from the 鈥樷�楶romote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries鈥欌�� Fund and $28 million from prior year funds.

OAR would be funded at $580.2 million overall.聽 This amount includes $92.5 million for Climate CIs and Labs and $20 million for the RISA program.聽 Sea Grant and Sea Grant Aquaculture would be level funded at $80 million and $14 million, respectively.

As part of the National Ocean Service, the Regional IOOS Observations network would be funded at $56 million.

NASA

NASA would be level funded at $24.44 billion.

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) would be funded at $6 billion, a cut of $1.25 billion.聽 Within SMD, Earth Science would be funded at $1.325 billion while Planetary Science would see a total of $2.5 billion.聽 Astrophysics and Heliophysics would receive $1.485 billion and $625 million, respectively.聽 Biological and Physical Sciences would see a total of $65 million.

The bill proposes to fund the Space Tech Directorate at $913 million, a cut of $7.5 million, while Aeronautics would be appropriated a total of $850 million, a cut of $85 million.

The Space Grant Program would be level funded at $58 million.

The full House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up the bill tomorrow morning. The Senate has yet to take any action on its version.

Five Hour Vote

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After five hours of an open vote, the House was able to pass the Senate budget resolution () in an effort end the stalemate on DHS funding and if and how much for fund ICE. This resolution instructs Congress to provide $70 million for immigration enforcement funding.

The House voted to adopt the resolution 215-211, strictly along party lines with one member voting present.

While the budget vote marked an important step, it will not, on its own end, the 75-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. The House still must take up a Senate-passed appropriations bill () to fund the rest of the DHS, outside of immigration agencies. The concurrent resolution is a significant step for Congress to begin funding the agency.

At present, the Coast Guard, TSA and other DHS units are being funded through extraordinary measures. Funding available to do so will be fully depleted in the next month.

The House planned on having a busy week and was scheduled to consider the FISA reauthorization and the Farm Bill. However, after multiple caucus issues, the Farm Bill was removed from the House Floor and returned to the House Rules Committee.

 

Committee releases FY27 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill, including blocking language related to indirect costs

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Today, the House Appropriations Committee released the FY27 bill for the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. The bill will be in subcommittee tomorrow, April 30. The text provides a total discretionary allocation of $77.34 billion, a $670 million decrease from the FY26 enacted level. The bill includes $7 billion for the NSF, $6 billion for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, and $5.85 billion for NOAA.

Notably, Section 542 extends indirect cost blocking language, holding the negotiated rates at FY24 levels. This language would block the Trump administration and Office of Management and Budget from imposing caps on indirect costs for federal research grants.

SEC. 542. In making Federal financial assistance, the Department of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation shall continue to apply the negotiated indirect cost rates in section 200.414 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations, including with respect to the approval of deviations from negotiated indirect cost rates, to the same extent and in the same manner as such negotiated indirect cost rates were applied in fiscal year 2024: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this or prior Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts, or otherwise made available to the Department of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation may be used to develop, modify, or implement changes to such fiscal 聽year 2024 negotiated indirect cost rates.

Full bill text is available and a summary is available .