House Appropriations Committee
2359 Rayburn
05/20/2026 at 11:00AM
Full committee markup.
Subcommittee markup took place May 15.
Subcommittee mark:
- Slashes the Department of Energy’s Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation programs (formerly called Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) by $1.3 billion or 40 percent.
- Revokes $2.8 billion of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law resources from the Department of Energy’s Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, and Fossil Energy and Carbon Management programs.
- Cuts funding for Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) by $50 million or 14 percent
- Cuts the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation account by $282 million or 12 percent
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – The bill provides a total net appropriation of $136 million, a decrease of $16 million below the fiscal year 2026 enacted level
- Eliminates funding for the Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, which is responsible for cleaning up sites with contamination resulting from the nation’s early atomic energy program
- Cuts the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management by $863 million or 10 percent, slowing down clean-up efforts that address the nation’s environmental legacy from the Manhattan Project through the end of the Cold War
- The bill provides a total of $9.8 billion for Army Corps of Engineers, a decrease of $660 million below the fiscal year 2026 enacted level
- Army Corps of Engineers: Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation – The bill provides $5 million, a decrease of $2 million below the fiscal year 2026 enacted level
- Northwest Regional Commission – The bill provides zero funding, $1 million below the fiscal year 2026 enacted level
Riders sllow firearms on Corps of Engineers’ public lands and prohibit implementation of “Clean Energy for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings.”