House Appropriations Committee
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
2359 Rayburn
06/05/2025 at 11:00AM
Subcommittee hearing.
Witness:
- Howard Lutnick, Secretary, Department of Commerce
| Program Name | $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) | Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Commerce | ||
| Increases | ||
| Fair Trade and Trade Enforcement | +134 | The Budget includes $134 million to strengthen trade enforcement. This includes an additional $122 million for the Bureau of Industry and Security. These new funds would also increase antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Economic Development Administration (EDA) and Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) | -624 | EDA programs are cut. MBDA is fully eliminated. |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—Operations, Research, and Grants | -1,311 | The Budget terminates a variety of climate-related research, data, and grant programs. |
| NOAA—Procurement of Weather Satellites and Infrastructure | -209 The Budget rescopes NOAA’s Geostationary and Extended Observ by canceling contracts for instruments designed primarily for climate measurements. | |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | -325 | Climate and environmental grants like NIST’s Circular Economy Program are eliminated. |
| International Trade Administration (ITA)—Global Markets | -145 | The Budget refocuses ITA’s footprint to countering China and securing access to fossil-fuel and mineral resources. |
| Department of Justice (DOJ) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Reduce State and Local Grant Programs | -1,019 | The Budget proposes to eliminate nearly 40 DOJ grant programs. The Budget eliminates programs such as Community Based Approaches to Advancing Justice, as well as programs that focus on hate crimes. Further, the Budget cuts Violence Against Women Act funding. |
| Cut the FBI | -545 | The Budget reflects a new focus on counterintelligence and counterterrorism, while reducing non-law enforcement missions, including DEI programs and intelligence activities. |
| DEA International Capacity | -212 | The Budget targets DEA’s foreign spending to Mexico, Central America, South America, and China. |
| Refocus ATF Enforcement and Regulatory Priorities | -468 | The Budget cuts funding for ATF offices and background checks. |
| General Legal Activities | -193 | The Budget focuses funding for General Legal Activities on the Civil Division ($441 million), and the Criminal Division ($220 million). The Budget reduces funding for the Civil Rights Division and the Environment and Natural Resources Division. |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | ||
| Increases | ||
| Human Space Exploration | +647 | The Budget allocates over $7 billion for lunar exploration and introduces $1 billion in new investments for Mars-focused programs. |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Space Science | -2,265 | In line with the Administration’s objectives of returning to the Moon before China and putting a man on Mars, the Budget would reduce lower priority research and terminate unaffordable missions such as the Mars Sample Return mission that is grossly overbudget and whose goals would be achieved by human missions to Mars. The mission is not scheduled to return samples until the 2030s. |
| Mission Support | -1,134 | The Budget cuts the workforce, IT services, NASA Center operations, facility maintenance, and construction and environmental compliance activities. |
| Earth Science | -1,161 | The Budget eliminates funding for climate monitoring satellites and restructures the Landsat Next mission. |
| Legacy Human Exploration Systems | -879 | The Budget phases out the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after three flights. budget. The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights to the Moon with commercial systems. The Budget also proposes to terminate the Gateway, a small lunar space station in development with international partners, which would have been used to support future SLS and Orion missions. |
| Space Technology | -531 | The Budget reduces Space Technology by approximately half, including eliminating space propulsion projects. The reductions also scale back or eliminate technology projects in favor of private sector research and development. |
| International Space Station | -508 | The Budget reflects the transition to a commercial approach to human activities in space. The Budget reduces the space station’s crew size and onboard research, preparing for a decommissioning of the station by 2030 and replacement by commercial space stations. Crew and cargo flights to the station would be significantly reduced. |
| Aeronautics | -346 | The Budget eliminates climate-focused green aviation spending. |
| Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement | -143 | NASA will cut STEM programming and research. |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| General Research and Education | -3,479 | The Budget cuts funding for: climate; clean energy; social, behavioral, and economic sciences; and other programs. Funding for Artificial Intelligence and quantum information sciences research is maintained at current levels. |
| Broadening Participation | -1,130 | All DEI-related programs at NSF are eliminated. |
| Agency Operations and Awards Management | -93 | This reduction to operations aligns with the Agency’s reduced size. |