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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.听 The report includes details on funding levels provided to the agencies.听 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.听 This amount includes $92.5 million for Climate CIs and Labs and $20 million for the RISA program.听 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.听 Within SMD, Earth Science would be funded at $1.325 billion while Planetary Science would see a total of $2.5 billion.听 Astrophysics and Heliophysics would receive $1.485 billion and $625 million, respectively.听 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 .

Senate appropriators push back on ED cuts during budget hearing

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon faced backlash from both sides of the aisle on Tuesday during a Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the President鈥檚 proposed FY27 budget. The President鈥檚 budget requests $76.5 billion for the Department of Education, a $2.3 billion decrease from the 2026 enacted level.

TRIO programs were a major point of discussion, with nearly every Senator expressing support for the programs, and questioning McMahon over proposed cuts.听Several Senators also used their time to draw attention to the department鈥檚 Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which is facing a 35% funding decrease. In March 2025, the Trump administration fired over half of OCR鈥檚 lawyers and staff and shut down seven of the twelve regional OCR offices. In a heated exchange between Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), McMahon denied responsibility for these staffing cuts, but said the department was working to hire more lawyers to work through the backlog of cases.

Several senators also highlighted the dismantling of the department, and questioned McMahon on restructuring, including the plan to shift the $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, and moving special education to HHS. Throughout the hearing, McMahon defended the budget cuts and promised that consolidation and restructuring would deliver better results for students and families. In her testimony, :

鈥淚n November of 2024, the American people elected President Trump with a clear mandate: to sunset a 46-year-old, $3 trillion, failed education bureaucracy in Washington, DC, and return authority to where it belongs鈥攖o parents, teachers, and local leaders. Amid record-low test scores and record-high numbers of students buried in debt, Americans want results.听Today, I can confidently attest that we are delivering on the vision of educational renewal that, for decades, many promised but none delivered.鈥�