S.1397, International Quantum Research Exchange Act
S.1463, Finding ORE Act, To allow the Secretary of the Interior to enter into memoranda of understanding for the purpose of scientific and technical cooperation in the mapping of critical minerals and rare earth elements
S.1478, Countering Wrongful Detention Act of 2025
S.1579, PARTNER with ASEAN, CERN, and PIF Act
S.1731, COUNTER Act of 2025
S.1780, A bill to provide for congressional oversight of security assistance to Mexico, and for other purposes.
S.1801, International Nuclear Energy Act (“INEA”) of 2025, A bill to facilitate the development of a whole-of-government strategy for nuclear cooperation and nuclear exports, and for other purposes.
S.Res.227, A resolution condemning Hamas for its premeditated, coordinated, and brutal terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, against Israel and demanding that Hamas immediately release all remaining hostages and return them to safety, and for other purposes.
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.
Senate Appropriations Committee
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
Michael Boren, of Idaho, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment, vice Homer L. Wilkes, resigned.
The Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment oversees the U.S. Forest Service.
Boren is a Trump donor who gained local notice for his and his brother David’s litigious treatment in defense of Hell Roaring Ranch, their dude ranch in Idaho. He treats the Sawtooth National Forest as if it were his personal property, building a cabin, private airstrip, and suing to block the construction of public trails.
A co-founder of Clearwater Analytics, Boren has made a career in financial management and software development. On Feb. 24, Michael and Joan Boren, as trustees of the MJB Revocable Trust, bought a new condominium at The Wharf in Washington for $6 million, according to property records with the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue.
Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
Trump’s billionaire budget is trying to fund handouts to Big Oil, tax cuts for billionaires, and mass detention facilities with our tax dollars. Money that should be used for life saving services like Medicaid and SNAP that millions of Americans rely on to keep their family healthy and their kids fed. Honestly this is only the tip of the iceberg. Trump’s budget is brimming with proposals that pad the pockets of his wealthy buddies and strip away critical government services we depend on. We’re descending on Washington to say No Deal!
People all over the country are already taking action - We know June will be a critical moment. It’s the climate movement’s moment to throw down and say NO DEAL! Join us in Washington DC on June 3rd.
Here’s the plan:
Direct Action in DC: Take part in actions, meet with elected officials, and join our press conference. Together share powerful stories about how this deal between Trump and Billionaires will impact working families across the country. Together we’ll stop the worst parts of this budget.
Confront Elected Officials at Home: When elected officials return home the week of June 16th for Congressional Recess we’ll confront them about the budget they passed, what they chose to fund, and what they chose to cut. (More guidance on this coming soon!)
Details:
DC No Deal Action Schedule (6/3):
10:30 AM: Meet at Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church (201 4th St SE, Washington, DC 20003).
12:00 PM: Join a press address at the Capitol to deliver our message to Congress
Rest of the Day: Actions at the capital targeting Members of Congress who can stop the worst parts of Trump’s deal with big oil billionaires
No Deal Endorsers: Climate Hawks Vote, 350Deschutes, Turtle Island Restoration Network, DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis, North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE), Oil Change International, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, Earthworks, individual, Public Citizen, North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE), 350.org, Stand.earth, 350 Triangle, Sunrise Movement, The People’s Justice Council, Sunrise DC, Mission Green Global, Methane Partners Campaign, Stop the Money Pipeline, Zero Hour, New Hampshire Youth Movement, Concerned Health Professionals of Pennsylvania, Alaska Wilderness League, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
On June 2, 2025, we gather not merely for another protest, but for a prophetic stand—a Moral Monday born out of righteous indignation and holy imagination. As the cries of the poor grow louder and the policies of the powerful grow colder, we must rise. Across lines of faith, race, and region, moral witnesses will converge at the very steps where justice has been delayed, where truth has been trampled, and where budgets have become weapons against the vulnerable.
We will meet on the east side of the Capitol, not in silence, but in sacred defiance.
This is not a political stunt; this is a moral reckoning.
Why We Are Gathering:
Because the federal budget is a moral document, and this one is failing the test.
Because 68 million seniors should not fear losing Medicare and Social Security.
Because children should not go hungry while corporations are rewarded.
Because faith demands more than prayer—it demands public action.
Join Bishop William J. Barber, II, faith leaders from every tradition, and a remnant of clergy dressed in full vestments. Assemble at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 301 A Street SE, at 9:00 am. Then we march as a unified moral voice at 11:00 am to the Capitol steps in front of the Supreme Court.
We will not be silent anymore. We will not let injustice write the national story unchecked.
Julie Hocker, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary for the Office of Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor
Wayne Palmer, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health, Department of Labor
Henry Mack III, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor
Marco Rajkovich, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Kirsten Baesler, of North Dakota, to be Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education
Kevin O’Farrell, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Department of Education
Nicholas Kent, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary, Department of Education
Rajkovich previously served as the chairman for FMSHRC during Trump’s first term. Before joining the commission he was a lawyer in Kentucky and worked for the U.S. Steel Mining Company, Inc.
Palmer was principal deputy assistant secretary at MSHA from December 2017 to January 2021 and the agency’s acting head until David Zatezalo’s confirmation in November 2017. Palmer was most recently a senior advisor in the Department of Labor Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Join us! Rally to save NOAA.
