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Subcommittee markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Legislative Branch Bill.

Full committee markup.

Joint subcommittee markup.

Data centers are growing like a second coal industry. Each one may consume a city’s worth of water and electricity - mostly generated by fossil fuels. For example, people in Memphis are breathing polluted air thanks to Elon Musk’s Colossus data center and his Grok AI. In the climate crisis, vulnerable people worldwide will die because of data centers. Through the sheer dominance of their owners, these machines are also becoming a second government of the United States - or replacing the one we thought we knew. DOGE, Pallantir, and OpenAI promise to surveil us, deport us, and send drones to kill unwanted humans. This “techno-state” brings us to the threshold of dystopian sci-fi.

So, we will convene in Washington, DC, the heart of the modern Techno Goliath State, and expose how their data centers are destroying our environment and threatening our democracy. We will begin with a tour of the tech oligarchy where speakers will expose how they are driving the techno-state. Finally, we’ll conclude at the Data Center World Conference, the cabal of industry executives and political enablers, for a rally where we will raise our voices to demand a MORATORIUM ON NEW DATA CENTERS.

We anticipate the action at the Data Center Conference will end at approx. 12:30 pm and be followed by a lunch in Mount Vernon Square (tentative location).

Volunteers are needed; please consider volunteering for an action role listed to the right.

There is also a possibility that we will follow up lunch with a mock people’s assembly on a data centre at Apple Carnegie that will debate a moratorium on data centers. Rally attendees will have an opportunity to sign up to stay on site after lunch and either participate in, or support, the people’s assembly. More details to follow.

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Apple Carnegie Library• 801 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

Subcommittee markup.

Top-line Budgets:

• Department of Veterans Affairs

• Department of Treasury

Detailed Budgets:

• General Provisions Government-Wide
• Military Construction
• Veterans Affairs
• Treasury
• Financing Vehicles and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
• Executive Office of the President
• General Services Administration
• Office of Personnel Management
• Other Independent Agencies and the District of Columbia

Jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government

• DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (except International Affairs Technical Assistance, and International Financial Institutions)
• DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
• EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT (except National Space Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the United States Trade Representative, and Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality)
• THE JUDICIARY
• INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
  • Administrative Conference of the United States
  • Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
  • Consumer Product Safety Commission
  • Election Assistance Commission
  • Federal Communications Commission
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Inspector General
  • Federal Election Commission
  • Federal Labor Relations Authority
  • Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • General Services Administration
  • Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation
  • Merit Systems Protection Board
  • Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
  • National Archives and Records Administration
  • National Credit Union Administration, Community Development Revolving Loan Fund
  • Office of Government Ethics
  • Office of Personnel Management and Related Trust Funds
  • Office of Special Counsel
  • Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
  • Public Buildings Reform Board
  • Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Selective Service System
  • Small Business Administration
  • United States Postal Service, Payment to the Postal Service
  • Fund and Office of Inspector General
  • United States Tax Court
  • General Provisions, Government-wide

Jurisdiction of Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
  • Military Construction, Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force (including Space Force), Defense-wide, and National Guard and Reserve Forces
  • Military Family Housing Construction and Operation and Maintenance, Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force (including Space Force), and Defense-wide Department of Defense Base Closure Account
  • Chemical Demilitarization Construction, Defense-wide
  • Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund
  • Homeowners Assistance Fund
  • Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund
  • NATO Security Investment Program
• DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
• RELATED AGENCIES
  • American Battle Monuments Commission
  • Armed Forces Retirement Home
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
  • Civil, Cemeterial Expenses, Army

Subcommittee hearing.

FY 2027 budget request:

• U.S. Forest Service

Witness

• Tom Schultz, Chief, United States Forest Service

Subcommittee hearing.

FY 2027 budget request:

• Department of Homeland Security

Witnesses

• Nick Andersen, Acting Director, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure Security Agency
• Ha Nguyen McNeill, Acting Administrator, The Transportation Security Administration
• Admiral Kevin Lunday, Commandant, The United States Coast Guard
• Sean Curran, Director, U.S. Secret Service
• Karen Evans, Acting Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Subcommittee hearing.

FY 2027 budget request:

• Office of the United States Trade Representative

Witness

• Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative

Subcommittee hearing.

FY 2027 budget request:

• Department of Agriculture

Witness

• Brooke Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Energy subcommittee hearing entitled “Subsurface Science and Technology: American Energy and Mineral Dominance.”

Witnesses:

• Carlos Araque, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quaise Energy
• Dr. Elizabeth Holley, Professor, Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
• Dr. Thomas A. Lograsso, Director, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Ames National Laboratory
• Joel Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals