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New: Sen Dem appropriators Murray and Schatz warn ahead of Sept. 30 deadline to allocate funds that Trump admin isn’t properly distributing billions in foreign aid.
Details here ⬇️
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New: Collins writes to OMB Director Russ Vought + NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya urging them not to proceed with any EO giving political appointees power over grants
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🚨News: Collins says any attempt by the administration to politicize grant making at the NIH is “contrary to congressional intent.”
Statement comes after reports in WaPo & Politico that Trump admin is looking to use an EO to overhaul NIH grants
PBN text subs had it first.
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Interesting House Approps hearing next week.
Trump admin has been using the Economy Act for the interagency agreements to dismantle the Ed Dept, pay for the ballroom, etc.
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New: House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) responds to DeLauro.
Cole says the interagency agreement between DOD and NIH is “routine.” He adds that he spoke to the NIH director who assured Cole that no money would be taken from “basic medical research.”
No money has been transferred, Cole said.
🚨DeLauro says she's learned DOD is trying to use NIH money to supplement the Pentagon's budget.
This is the kind of thing Approps Dems will surely be investigating/going after if Dems take the majority next Congress
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🚨DeLauro says she's learned DOD is trying to use NIH money to supplement the Pentagon's budget.
This is the kind of thing Approps Dems will surely be investigating/going after if Dems take the majority next Congress
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New: The White House has a memo going around dispelling the notion that the Cruz/Cantwell NIL framework preempts state laws banning transgender women in women’s sports.
Some GOP senators raised that concern. Memo attached
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News: The National Sheriffs’ Association urges Thune and Schumer to oppose the delay of hemp ban that’s in the CR.
H/t @ccleffert
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Hemp fight continues to heat up.
Some beverage industry groups, convenience stores, wholesalers out with a letter to House and Senate leaders today urging them to delay the hemp ban.
GOP senators had a fiery discussion on this at lunch today. It’s the issue currently dragging out passage of the CR.
Letter below. H/t @AndrewDesiderio
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News in @PunchbowlNews AM: Duffy sent a letter to EPW, Commerce and Banking committee leaders outlining the Trump administration's priorities for the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization.
Those priorities include a rail safety measure championed by VP JD Vance that's opposed by some R's.
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New: Sens. Shaheen, Collins, Warnock and Kennedy out with a statement on their bill, the INSULIN Act, which advanced out of HELP earlier today.
This is the farthest the bill has ever gone with broad bipartisan support
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🚨in @PunchbowlNews PM we dove more into the anomalies list OMB sent to the Hill today.
Read the list here: punchbowl.news/anomalies-pac…
News: OMB is seeking $1 billion in advance procurement funding for the Trump-class battleship as part of its 11-page list of anomalies sent to the Hill for inclusion in a stopgap spending bill.
More in PM.
W/ @sn_handler
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House approps just noticed an interesting hearing for next week -- full committee is analyzing shutdown reform.
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NEW: The Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing next week on the supplemental funding request.
Hegseth, Caine and Rollins testifying
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News in @PunchbowlNews AM: Brett Guthrie will announce he’s giving $1 mill to the NRCC during conference today
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House Republicans will try again to pass the FY2027 National Security-State Department funding bill next week.
We'll see if they can get a rule.... House R's need to pass more funding bills this month to keep on pace compared to prev years
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NEWS: Supreme Court Justices will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on July 14.
Justices last appeared before House members in 2019.
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New: The House Appropriations Committee announced an OMB oversight hearing for June 30.
I'm sure appropriators will have lots of questions for Director Vought...
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News: The Senate Appropriations Committee will markup four spending bills on Thursday of next week. Notice will be going out soon, I’m told.
Four FY2027 bills: Ag-FDA, Leg Branch, Commerce-Justice-Science and MilCon-Va.
We had in @PunchbowlNews PM that these four were being considered. ⬇️
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NEW: Cruz announced markup of his bipartisan NIL framework bill.
Next Thursday. House Republicans have been stalled on this issue.
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New: Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie and Education and Workforce Chair Tim Walberg say the Senate’s NIL bill falls short.
House Republicans have been pushing their own bill, the SCORE Act.
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New: Senate Commerce aiming to markup its own NIL bill soon.
Cruz and Cantwell will be releasing the Protect College Sports Act. The bill would set a national rulebook for NIL.
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👀Lawmakers, want to frame your bill that just passed? It’s about to get more expensive!
House CAO announces custom framing prices will rise for the first time in decades
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Top Senate Approps Dem Patty Murray says she’ll try to block the $1.8 billion slush fund in approps bills this summer
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New: Top House Approps Dem Rosa DeLauro statement on the ballroom security money in the GOP’s reconciliation bill.
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New: Senate appropriators send bipartisan letter urging the State Department to release $600 million in appropriated FY25 and FY26 funds for the global vaccine alliance.
Sens. Collins, Murray, Murkowski, Schatz, McConnell and Shaheen on the letter to Rubio.
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NEW: the House just passed a skinny farm bill, sending it to the Senate.
Only 14 Dems voted in favor while 3 Rs voted against
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NEW: Rep Luna’s amendment stripping the controversial pesticide language out of the farm bill succeeds.
MAHA advocates had been pushing hard to get rid of that language. Chairman GT Thompson fought to keep it in.
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House appropriators just approved by voice vote to add this report language on agency responsiveness to the GAO.
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Coachella may be over but House Republican appropriators approved this language to make sure the SBA's Coachella Valley satellite office is staffed.
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House Approps Chair Tom Cole is the last of the four corners to put out a statement on Trump's budget.
Says House appropriators look forwrad to "reinforcing" Trump's vision through the appropriations process.
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Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins rejects some of Trump's budget, including cuts to LIHEAP, biomedical research and the Essential Air Services Program.
"While the Administration proposes a budget, Congress holds the power of the purse," Collins said.
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Top Senate Dem appropriator Patty Murray blasts the Trump admin's FY2027 budget request.
Murray says while Trump is "sending prices skyrocketing" with the war in Iran, the president is proposing cutting affordability programs like LIHEAP
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Top House Appropriations Democrat Rosa DeLauro statement on the GOP's latest attempt to end the DHS shutdown.
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Retiring T&I Chair Sam Graves says that despite his retirement announcement today, he intends to finish strong.
Among his list of priorities for the end of the year is passing the surface transportation reauthorization. Current highway bill expires at the end of September.
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NTSB statement on the ALERT Act. T&I and HASC leaders revised the text to implement NTSB recommendations.
Also praises Cruz and Cantwell for their work on ROTOR.
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New: We have an analysis from the NTSB on the ALERT Act, which T&I and HASC will mark up tomorrow. Notes many parts of the bill will require implementation of NTSB recommendations.
Key section on ADS-B here:
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NEWS: in @PunchbowlNews Midday
Budget committee Republicans plan to meet early this week to chat recon 2.0.
Still a lot of skepticism about whether that’s possible. W/ @LauraEWeiss16 @AndrewDesiderio
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26 Dems were missing at the vote today due to weather.
Would’ve pushed ROTOR over the edge today. Rs were missing ~ 9
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T&I Chair GRAVES says if the House doesn't pass ROTOR later this afternoon, the panel will markup Graves's bipartisan aviation safety bill the ALERT Act next week.
Graves opposes ROTOR but Senate Commerce Chair CRUZ has been pushing for its passage
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New: Bipartisan T&I and Armed Services committee leaders out with a statement on the NTSB report on DCA midair collision.
Notes that they are working "expeditiously" on legislation. Sen. Ted Cruz wants a vote on his own bill on this issue, the ROTOR Act, which is not mentioned here
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Interesting... the House Appropriations Committee is beginning its oversight hearings next week.
Potential DHS shutdown impacts hearing on deck for Wednesday. Deadline to fund DHS is next Friday.
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New: Loudermilk announces his retirement.
Another House R not running for reelection
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Appropriators taking their victory lap after the House passed the final funding bills.
Some of the notes on the sign say “Way to go Chairman Cole!” and “our time is now!”
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New: Florida Republican Neal Dunn announces he’ll retire from Congress.
Dunn is a senior member of the E&C committee. Yet another House member saying this term is their last.
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A little nugget in the FSGG Joint Explanatory Statement .... encourages the White House to serve Alaskan seafood at State Dinners!
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New: E&C and Ways & Means Chairs release the health insurers they’ve invited to hearings this month.
The hearings are the first in a series examining health care costs.
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Top House Approps Dem Rosa DeLauro says this package rejects $163 billion in proposed cuts + protects Congress’ power of the purse.
🚨NEWS -- THE MINIBUS IS OUT
punchbowl.news/cds92500/
CJS
Energy and Water
Interior
Could get a House vote later this week
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NEW: Cruz, Cantwell, Moran and Duckworth out with a statement criticizing NDAA language that they say makes aviation less safe.
Cruz had wanted his bill ROTOR included in NDAA to close a loophole that contributed to the DCA crash. The senators say instead the NDAA makes it worse
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NEWS: Here’s the slide of health care options House GOP leadership is putting under consideration.
Republicans are still discussing options. Note that extending Obamacare subsidies is not listed.
w/@JakeSherman + @LauraEWeiss16
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New: Senate Appropriations Republicans just released their version of the FY2026 Energy and Water funding bill.
The bill is partisan as opposed to the other bipartisan bills the panel has been proposing.
Dems didn’t agree to the bill/cuts to clean energy.
Here’s Murray:
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NEW: Chair Cruz announces a hearing with auto execs ahead of big surface transportation reauthorization that Congress must handle in 2026.
I think this is the first hearing I’ve seen noticed for Jan 2026, and it’ll be an important one
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