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A hastily arranged full committee markup of the 2025 Fiscal Year budget resolution.

• Budget resolution text
• Table: FY2025 Budget Resolution Total Spending and Revenue
• Table: FY2025 Budget Resolution Discretionary Spending
• Table: FY2025 Budget Resolution Mandatory Spending

Progressive Caucus Center:

• The House proposal makes room for massive tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-wealthy. The Senate’s proposal does not.
• The House aims to spend a lot more than the Senate does ($4.8 trillion in the House vs. $521 billion in the Senate). Again, this is largely because of taxes.
• The House’s proposed cuts are way bigger than the Senate’s ($1.5 trillion with a goal of $2 trillion in the House vs. at least $4 billion in the Senate).
• The House wants to raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. The Senate’s proposal doesn’t touch the debt ceiling.
• The budget directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to make at least $880 billion in cuts. This committee oversees Medicaid, the health insurer for more than 70 million Americans. Moreover, the resolution states, “it is the goal of this concurrent resolution to reduce mandatory spending by $2 trillion over the budget window.”
• The House proposal tells the Agriculture Committee to find $230 billion in cuts. This committee oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), often called “food stamps”—a program that feeds more than 40 million Americans. Moreover, again, the resolution states, “it is the goal of this concurrent resolution to reduce mandatory spending by $2 trillion over the budget window.”

Council for a Responsible Budget: The budget resolution’s instructions include a net $3.3 trillion in allowable deficit increases – or nearly $4 trillion including interest in additional debt by 2034.

• The budget resolution includes $3.3 trillion of net allowable deficit increases – from $4.8 trillion of deficit increases somewhat offset by $1.5 trillion of required savings – that, with interest, we estimate would allow nearly $4 trillion of additional debt. Passing a reconciliation bill consistent with these instructions would increase debt in 2034 (the last year of the budget) to 126 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) compared to 117 percent under current law.
• The budget’s economic assumptions are overly aggressive, and the ultimate direction of the economic effects is likely ambiguous; if they resulted in modestly positive economic feedback, we estimate debt would be 123 percent of GDP by 2034, or if they resulted in modestly negative feedback, we estimate debt would be 129 percent of GDP by 2034.
• The window of the budget – FY 2025 through 2034 – includes one year where the TCJA doesn’t need to be extended (2025) and one less year of extension (2035) than a 2026-2035 budget would include, which could make the $4.8 trillion of tax cuts and spending increases in this budget window translate to $5.5-$6 trillion of ten-year increases.

Fierce Healthcare: The budget framework calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and increases the debt limit by $4 trillion. It also instructs the Energy and Commerce Committee to slash spending by $880 billion over 10 years, which is expected to include major Medicaid reform, and the Education and Workforce Committee to eliminate $330 billion in spending over 10 years.

02/13/2025 at 10:00AM

Full committee nomination hearing.

Nominee:

• Linda McMahon, Stamford, CT

McMahon is the board chair of the neo-fascist, oil-backed climate-denier America First Policy Institute and was co-chair of the Trump transition team.

02/13/2025 at 10:00AM

Business meeting to consider an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress; to be immediately followed by a hearing entitled, “Eliminating waste by the foreign aid bureaucracy.”

02/13/2025 at 10:00AM

Full committee hearing.

Witnesses:

Panel 1

• Bret Erickson, Chairman, U.S. Government Relations Council, International Fresh Produce Association, Edinburg, TX
• Mr. Jeremy Hinton, Chairman, Kentucky Horticulture Council, President, LaRue County Farm Bureau, Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, Hodgenville, KY
• Dr. Tim Boring, Director, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Stockbridge, MI
• Mrs. Anna Rhinewalt, Council Member, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation/Mississippi Sweet Potato Council, Senatobia, MS
• Mr. Ben Etcheverry, President, New Mexico Chile Association, Deming, NM

Panel 2

• Mr. Ben Lehfeldt, President, American Sheep Industry Association, Lavina, MT
• Mr. Buck Wehrbein, President, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Waterloo, NE
• Mr. Harold Howrigan, Board Member, National Milk Producers Federation, Fairfield, VT
• Mrs. Lori Stevermer, President, National Pork Producers Council, Easton, MN
• Mr. John Zimmerman, Chairman, National Turkey Federation, Northfield, MN
• Mr. Tony Wesner, Board Member, United Egg Producers, Seymour, IN

02/13/2025 at 09:30AM

Full committee hearing to receive testimony on the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2026 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Witnesses:

• Admiral Alvin Holsey, USN, Commander, United States Southern Command
• General Gregory M. Guillot, USAF, Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command

02/13/2025 at 09:30AM

Business meeting to consider the nomination of:

• Kashyap “Kash” Patel, to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Vote: 12-10 on party lines to favorably report Patel.

02/13/2025 at 09:00AM

A full committee hearing entitled “The USAID Betrayal.” Brian J. Mast (R-Fla.), Chairman

Witnesses:

• Ted Yoho, Former U.S. Representative, Florida’s 3rd Congressional District
• Max Primorac, Former Acting Chief Operating Officer, Senior Research Fellow, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation
• Andrew Natsios, Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

02/13/2025 at 08:30AM

Educators, parents, community leaders, and elected officials are coming together to stand up for students and public schools. The push to dismantle the Department of Education isn’t just politics—it’s a direct attack on students’ futures. If successful, it will mean overcrowded classrooms, fewer resources for vulnerable students, cuts to services for students with disabilities, the loss of job training programs, higher costs for college, and weakened civil rights protections.

We refuse to stay silent. As Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon’s confirmation hearings approach, join us Wednesday, February 12, at 4:00 PM on the Capitol Grounds (corner of Independence Ave SE & First Street SE) to make our voices heard.

Every student deserves the resources to succeed. Be there, dress warmly, and stand with us in this fight for our schools.

02/12/2025 at 04:00PM

A full committee oversight hearing.

The Trump’s administration’s unconstitutional funding freeze is disrupting “funding streams through multiple federal agencies including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service, Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Native American Programs.”

The federal government provided $32.6 billion in direct funding last year to federally recognized tribes through various programs and agencies.

Among the programs frozen by the Trump administration are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tribal assistance programs and grants for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices.

As the freeze was enacted, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) was confirmed overwhelmingly by the U.S. Senate on January 30th by a vote of 80-17.

The Democrats who joined the Republicans were Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Bennet and Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cantwell (D-Wash.), Cortez Masto and Rosen (D-Nev.), Durbin (D-Ill.), Gallego and Kelly (D-Ariz.), Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Hassan and Shaheen (D-N.H.), Heinrich and Lujan (D-N.M.), Kaine and Warner (D-Va.), King (I-Maine), Klobuchar and Smith (D-Minn.), Padilla (D-Calif.), Schatz (D-Hawaii), Slotkin (D-Mich.), Warnock (D-Ga.), Welch (D-Vt.), and Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

02/12/2025 at 02:30PM

Stand up for CFPB workers who were illegally fired.

Save Our CFPB

Wednesday, February 12, Noon local time

CFPB HQ: 1700 G St NW

NYC: 26 Federal Plaza

Atlanta: 401 W. Peachtree St.

Chicago: 230 S. Dearborn St. (1 PM EST)

San Francisco: 301 Howard St. (3 pm EST)

02/12/2025 at 12:00PM