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Subcommittee markup.
Subcommittee markup.
| Department of the Interior (DOI) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program Name | $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) | Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project | -609 | The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project. |
| Operation of the National Park System | -900 | The Budget would transfer most properties to State-level management. Achieving a $900 million cut to operations would require eliminating funding for roughly 350 park sites, 75 percent of the total. |
| NPS Historic Preservation Fund | -158 | The Budget eliminates almost all funding except for projects in partnership with HBCUs. |
| NPS Construction | -73 | This reduction complements the Administration’s goals transferring most parks to State and tribal governments. |
| NPS National Recreation and Preservation | -77 | |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs Programs that Support Tribal Self-Governance and Tribal Communities | -617 | The Budget eliminates the Indian Guaranteed Loan program for tribal business development. The Budget also terminates the Indian Land Consolidation Program. In addition, the Budget also reduces funding for programs that directly fund tribal operations such as roads, housing, and social services. |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Public Safety and Justice | -107 | The Budget cuts the tribal law enforcement program by 20 percent. |
| Bureau of Indian Education Construction | -187 | The Budget eliminates funding for construction of tribal schools. |
| U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Surveys, Investigations, and Research programs | -564 | USGS provides science information on natural hazards, ecosystems, water, energy and mineral resources, and mapping of Earth’s features. The Budget eliminates programs that provide grants to universities and crucial climate science initiatives and instead focuses on support for minerals and fossil fuel extraction. |
| Bureau of Land Management Conservation Programs | -198 | The Budget proposes deep reductions. The Budget also reduces the Wildlife and Aquatic Habitat Management program. |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) State, Tribal, and NGO Conservation Grant Programs | -170 | The Budget eliminates USFWS grant programs that fund conservation of species managed by States, Tribes, and other nations. |
| Renewable Energy Programs | -80 | The Budget proposes to eliminate support for renewable energy deployment. |
| USFWS Ecological Services | -37 | USFWS’ Ecological Services program and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources are jointly responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Budget consolidates these two programs into a single program housed within DOI with significantly reduced funding. |
| Federal Wildland Fire Service (consolidation of USDA and DOI Wildland Fire Management programs under a unified agency within DOI) | -- | Federal wildfire risk mitigation and suppression responsibilities currently are split across five agencies in two departments: the U.S. Forest Service in USDA and BIA, Bureau of Land Management, USFWS, and NPS in DOI. The Budget consolidates the Federal wildland fire responsibilities into a single new Federal Wildland Fire Service at DOI, including transferring USDA’s current wildland fire management responsibilities. |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | ||
| Program Name | $ Change Enacted from 2025 (in millions) | Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase |
| Increases | ||
| Drinking Water Programs | +9 | The Budget provides $124 million in funding for the drinking water mission at EPA. The $9 million increase from the 2025 enacted level is to equip EPA with funds to respond to drinking water disasters. |
| Indian Reservation Drinking Water Program | +27 | The Budget increases funding for Tribes to retain access to funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure on their lands, with a total level of $31 million for the grant program. |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds | -2,460 | The Budget provides the decreased funding level of $305 million total. |
| Categorical Grants | -1,006 | The Budget includes the elimination of 16 categorical grants, and maintains funding at 2025 enacted levels for Tribes. |
| Hazardous Substance Superfund | -254 | The IIJA and the Inflation Reduction Act helped finance the Superfund program. |
| Office of Research and Development | -235 | The Budget puts an end to research grants, environmental justice work, climate research, and modeling that influences regulations. The Budget provides $281 million. |
| Environmental Justice | -100 | EPA’s environmental justice program is eliminated in line with the vision the President set forth in Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” and Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” |
| Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants | -90 | This program is eliminated. |
| Atmospheric Protection Program | -100 | The Atmospheric Protection Program imposes climate change regulations. This program is eliminated in the 2026 Budget. |
| Small Agency Eliminations | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| -3,586 | The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in this appropriations bill. |
| The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million. | |
| Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) | -2 | The budget closes this office. |
Subcommittee markup.
Department of Energy:
| Department of Energy | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program Name | $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) | Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| IIJA Cancellation | -15,247 | The Budget cancels over $15 billion in funds committed to build renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other technologies. The Budget also ends programs for electric vehicle and battery makers and cancels the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act. |
| Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) | -2,572 | The Budget reorients EERE programs to early-stage research and development programming, eliminating funding for Justice40. This proposal would support technologies that promote fossil-fuel and nuclear power and bioenergy. |
| Office of Science | -1,148 | The Budget reduces funding for climate change and renewable energy research. The Budget maintains priority areas such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, quantum information science, fusion, and critical minerals. |
| Environmental Management (EM) | -389 | The EM program performs activities at 14 active cleanup sites and operates a geologic disposal facility (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico). The EM topline is being reduced by $389 million, which reflects a reduction of about $178 million for the transfer of responsibility from the EM program to the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Savannah River site in South Carolina, where plutonium pit production capabilities would be developed. The Budget maintains the Hanford site in Washington at the 2025 enacted level but reduces funding for various cleanup activities at other sites. |
| Advanced Research Project Agency‒ Energy (ARPA-E) | -260 | The Budget reduces funding for ARPA-E, limiting support to research advancing fossil-fuel technologies and other technologies. Pollution-reducing technologies are not supported. |
| Office of Nuclear Energy | -408 | The Budget reduces funding for research on nuclear energy. Funding priorities include innovative concepts for nuclear reactors, researching advanced nuclear fuels, and maintaining the capabilities of the Idaho National Laboratory. |
| Office of Fossil Energy | -270 | The Budget restores the name and function of the Office of Fossil Energy to its original purpose, which is funding for the research of technologies that could produce an abundance of domestic fossil energy and critical minerals. |
| Corps of Engineers—Civil Works (Corps) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) Surplus | -1,071 | The HMTF, whose funding is subject to annual appropriations, finances operation and maintenance projects for the Nation’s water channels. The Budget reduces funding for HMTF. |
| Corps WIFIA program | -7 | The Corps WIFIA program provides direct loans and loan guarantees for non-Federal dam safety projects. The Budget eliminates this program. |
| Department of the Interior (DOI) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project | -609 | The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project, eliminating funds for habitat restoration. |
| Small Agency Eliminations | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| -3,586 | The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in this appropriations bill. |
| The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million. | |
| Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) | -2 | The budget closes this office. |
Subcommittee markup.
Department of Transportation:
Highlights:
Department of Housing and Urban Development:
Highlights:
| Department of Transportation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program Name | $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) | Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase |
| Increases | ||
| Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Operations | +359 | The Budget requests an increased amount of $13.8 billion. This funding level would support air traffic controller hiring and salary increases, as well as FAA’s ongoing updates to its outdated telecommunications systems. |
| FAA Facility and Radar Upgrades | +824 | The Budget delivers an $5 billion investment in the modernization of the systems and facilities that comprise U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). In addition to a previously-provided $1 billion advance appropriation, the Budget requests an additional $4 billion for NAS upgrades including a $450 million down-payment on a multiyear, multi-billion-dollar radar replacement program. A substantial amount will also be requested as mandatory funding through reconciliation. |
| Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program (INFRA) | +770 | The Budget provides $770 million, on top of the $1.5 billion in provided by IIJA, for the INFRA grants program, which assists highway, port, and freight rail projects. |
| Rail Safety and Infrastructure Grants | +400 | The Budget provides $500 million for Rail Safety and Infrastructure grants, a 400-percent increase over 2025 levels. |
| Shipbuilding and Port Infrastructure | +596 | The Budget provides $105 million for the Assistance to Small Shipyards program. The Budget delivers $550 million for the Port Infrastructure Development Program. |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Essential Air Service (EAS) Discretionary Funding | -308 | The Budget proposes a reduction of eligibility and subsidy rates. |
| Electric Vehicle Charger Grants | -5700 | The Budget cancels an additional $5.7 billion in IIJA funding provided to the Department of Transportation for electric vehicle charger grant programs. |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| State Rental Assistance Block Grant (Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, Public Housing, Project-Based Rental Assistance, Housing for the Elderly, and Housing for Persons with Disabilities) | -26,718 | The Budget transforms the current Federal rental assistance into a State-based formula grant. The Budget would also newly institute a two-year cap on rental assistance for able bodied adults. A State-based formula program would also lead to significant terminations of Federal regulations. The Budget includes $25 million in housing grants for youth aging out of foster care. |
| Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) | -3,300 | The Budget proposes to eliminate the CDBG program, which provides formula grants to over 1,200 State and local governments for a wide range of community and economic development activities. |
| HOME Investment Partnerships Program | -1,250 | The Budget eliminates HOME, a formula grant that provides State and local governments with funding to expand the supply of housing. |
| Native American Programs and Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant | -479 | The Budget eliminates competitive grant programs for Native American housing and eliminates the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant. |
| Homeless Assistance Program Consolidations | -532 | The Budget consolidates the Continuum of Care and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS programs into an Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program that provides short- and medium-term housing assistance, capped at two years, to homeless and at-risk individuals. T |
| Surplus Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes Funding | -296 | This set of programs has unobligated balances that should be depleted. |
| Self-Sufficiency Programs | -196 | HUD’s Self-Sufficiency Programs are eliminated. |
| Pathways to Removing Obstacles (PRO) Housing | -100 | Consistent with the Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” the Budget proposes to eliminate PRO Housing, an affordable housing development program. |
| Fair Housing Grants | -60 | The Budget eliminates the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), which provides competitive grants to public and private fair housing organizations. The Budget also eliminates the National Fair Housing Training Academy, which provides training for Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) and FHIP professionals as well as funding to translate HUD materials to languages other than English. The Budget, however, maintains support for FHAP, which funds State and local enforcement agencies that collectively process about 80 percent of the Nation’s fair housing complaints under the Fair Housing Act. |
| Small Agency Eliminations | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| -3,586 | The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills. |
| The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million. | |
Full committee markup has been postponed.
| 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. |
| Department of Energy | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| IIJA Cancellation | -15,247 | The Budget cancels over $15 billion in funds committed to build renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other technologies. The Budget also ends programs for electric vehicle and battery makers and cancels the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act. |
| Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) | -2,572 | The Budget reorients EERE programs to early-stage research and development programming, eliminating funding for Justice40. This proposal would support technologies that promote fossil-fuel and nuclear power and bioenergy. |
| Office of Science | -1,148 | The Budget reduces funding for climate change and renewable energy research. The Budget maintains priority areas such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, quantum information science, fusion, and critical minerals. |
| Environmental Management (EM) | -389 | The EM program performs activities at 14 active cleanup sites and operates a geologic disposal facility (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico). The EM topline is being reduced by $389 million, which reflects a reduction of about $178 million for the transfer of responsibility from the EM program to the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Savannah River site in South Carolina, where plutonium pit production capabilities would be developed. The Budget maintains the Hanford site in Washington at the 2025 enacted level but reduces funding for various cleanup activities at other sites. |
| Advanced Research Project Agency‒ Energy (ARPA-E) | -260 | The Budget reduces funding for ARPA-E, limiting support to research advancing fossil-fuel technologies and other technologies. Pollution-reducing technologies are not supported. |
| Office of Nuclear Energy | -408 | The Budget reduces funding for research on nuclear energy. Funding priorities include innovative concepts for nuclear reactors, researching advanced nuclear fuels, and maintaining the capabilities of the Idaho National Laboratory. |
| Office of Fossil Energy | -270 | The Budget restores the name and function of the Office of Fossil Energy to its original purpose, which is funding for the research of technologies that could produce an abundance of domestic fossil energy and critical minerals. |
| Corps of Engineers—Civil Works (Corps) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) Surplus | -1,071 | The HMTF, whose funding is subject to annual appropriations, finances operation and maintenance projects for the Nation’s water channels. The Budget reduces funding for HMTF. |
| Corps WIFIA program | -7 | The Corps WIFIA program provides direct loans and loan guarantees for non-Federal dam safety projects. The Budget eliminates this program. |
| Department of the Interior (DOI) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project | -609 | The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project, eliminating funds for habitat restoration. |
| Small Agency Eliminations | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| -3,586 | The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills. |
| The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million. | |
| Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) | -2 | The budget closes this office. |
The purpose of the hearing is to examine the President’s budget request for the U.S. Forest Service for Fiscal Year 2026.
Witness:
Full committee markup.
| Department of Agriculture (USDA) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| National Forest System Management | -392 | The Budget reduces salaries and expenses by $342 million, and saves an additional $50 million by eliminating funding for the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, and reducing funding for recreation, vegetation and watershed management, and land management regulation. The Budget fully supports the Executive Order 14225, “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production,” to improve forest management and increase domestic timber production. The requested funding level supports timber sales, hazardous fuels removal, mineral extraction, grazing, and wildlife habitat management. |
| Forest Service Operations | -391 | The Budget reduces funding for expenses including salaries and facility leases to streamline the Agency’s management structure and reduce their real property footprint. |
| State, Local, Tribal, and NGO Conservation Programs | -303 | The Budget reduces grant programs that subsidize management of State and privately-owned forests. While the Budget provides reduced support for Federal wildland fire management activities, these partners should be encouraged to fund their own community preparedness and risk mitigation activities. |
| Forest and Rangeland Research (Except Forest Inventory and Analysis) | -300 | The President has pledged to manage national forests for their intended purpose of producing timber. The Budget reduces funding for the Forest and Rangeland Research program because it is out of step with timber production, but maintains funding for Forest Inventory and Analysis, a longstanding census of forest resources and conditions. |
The 2026 budget consolidates the federal suppression response apparatus into a new Department of the Interior (DOI) bureau, eliminated USFS Wildland Fire Management and the USFS Wildfire Suppression Operations Reserve Fund.
Full committee markup.
The House markup of the Agriculture, Rural Development, and FDA Appropriations Act completed on June 23.
The House markup of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act took place on June 26.
The Senate held a hearing on the Commerce budget request and the FBI budget request on June 4, and on the overall Justice budget request on June 25.
| 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. |
| 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 ($107 million, a cut of $4 million) and the Environment and Natural Resources Division ($90 million, a cut of $26 million and reduction of 79 attorneys). |
Full committee hearing.
Nominees:
Anji Sinha is an orthopaedic surgeon, Republican donor, and golf buddy of Donald Trump.
Jeff Bartos is a Pennsylvania real estate developer, Republican donor, and failed Republican candidate for lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nominations hearing for nominees of the Department of Commerce at 10:00 AM EST on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
Nominees:
In 2019, Jacobs was the acting NOAA Administrator who forced NOAA to issue a false statement in support of Donald Trump’s altered projection of Hurricane Dorian’s path, the incident known colloquially as “Sharpiegate.” Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics. Jacobs is the acting NOAA Adminstrator.
Jordan is a Republican climate policy expert, former Trump NOAA official, and corporate lobbyist whose clients have included artificial intelligence, weather and satellite companies, including AccuWeather; PlanetiQ, a commercial weather data company; the SmallSat Alliance, a group of small satellite manufacturers; MeetKai, an AI company; and Ideanomics, a commercial EV support company. He composes ambient music under the names “The Greatest Hoax” and T.R. Jordan.
Kumar is a former Trump Department of Commerce official, oil industry lobbyist, and chief lobbyist for battery-recycling startup Li-Cycle, which recently filed for bankruptcy. He is currently Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Full committee hearing.
Nominees:
Audrey Robinson is an oil executive who “helped found Denver-based Franklin Mountain Energy, a since-sold natural gas fracking firm in the Permian Basin with an open investigation at EPA over recent Clean Air Act violations.” She “also sits on the board of Liberty Energy, the fracking services company led by Energy Secretary Chris Wright until his resignation in January. Earlier in her career, Robertson worked at Goldman Sachs and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, an investment firm focused on fossil fuels.”
Tim Walsh is a Colorado real estate developer who “has donated over $2.5 million to Republican candidates and conservative causes since 2022.”
David Eisner worked in the Treasury Department in the first Trump administration, is critical of GOP election deniers, and is a devoted fan of Chris Wright.