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FY 2025 Appropriation Hearings:  

Senate Appropriations Committee: FY 2025 hearing schedule
House Appropriations Committee FY 2025 hearing schedule: Week of April 29, 2024

Recent Appropriation Actions (see Chron for news archives):

Thursday, April 25:  House Appropriations Chair Cole released revised guidelines for earmarks for FY 2025 (“community project funding”), drawing a sharp rebuke from Ranking Member DeLauro:

• Chairman Cole’s guidance:  “Per the GOP Conference’s decision to maintain Community Project Funding for the 118th Congress and our short timeline to draft and consider next year’s bills, the Committee is maintaining similar eligible program accounts and full committee guidance for Fiscal Year 2025 Community Project Funding.  One notable change is that non-profits are no longer eligible for Community Project Funding in the Economic Development Initiative (EDI) account.” (emphasis added)  Chairman Cole’s dear colleague is available here.  Submission deadlines and request guidance are available here.
• Ranking Member DeLauro’s response: “Deeming non-profits ineligible for Community Project Funding in the Economic Development Initiative (EDI) account is a seismic shift, as nearly half of all the 2024 House-funded EDI projects were directed to non-profit recipients. YMCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs, and other groups vital to our communities are all now ineligible.  In order to accommodate the extreme Republican wing, Republicans are trying to root out any help for the LGBTQ+ community. They are willing to hurt their own religious organizations, seniors, and veterans. The result of this change does not just hurt House Democrats. They are hurting Members of their own party by putting all House Members at a severe disadvantage.”
• Background from Roll Call on HUD’s EDI grant program: “The change sets the House up for a collision course with the Senate, which allows earmarks in both the Labor-HHS-Education bill and for nonprofits under the EDI account in the Transportation-HUD bill.”

Wednesday, April 24:  President Biden signed HR 815 (text), making $95.3 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations for aid to Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific/Taiwan, Gaza and other areas of humanitarian need, and including the TikTok/sanctions bill.  The new law includes:

• Israel-related aid, $16.5 billion (R-sum; D-sum; CBO estimate) includes: $5.2 billion for Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Iron Beam defense systems • $4.4 billion to replenish defense articles and defense services • $2.4 billion for current U.S. military operations in the region in response to recent attacks • $3.6 billion in security assistance to Israel and partners in the Middle East • $400 million for the nonprofit security grant program at FEMA • $150 m for State and USAID •  Provides additional flexibility for transfers of defense articles to Israel from U.S. stockpiles held abroad • Prohibits funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
• Humanitarian Assistance for Gaza and other vulnerable populations, $9.15 billion.
• Ukraine-related aid, $60.84 billion (R-sum; D-sum; CBO estimate) includes: $13.78 billion for Ukraine security assistance • $13.41 billion to replenish U.S. stocks • $20.5 billion for U.S. Armed Forces mission support • $9.5 billion in forgivable loans for economic support • $481 million for humanitarian services • $149 million to prepare for and respond to potential nuclear and radiological incidents • $26 million to continue oversight and accountability by the Defense and State Departments.
• Indo-Pacific/Taiwan security aid, $8.12 billion (R-sum; D-sum; CBO estimate) includes: $3.3 billion to develop submarine infrastructure, including investments in dry dock construction • $2 billion in Foreign Military Financing Program for Taiwan and other key allies and security partners in the Indo-Pacific • $1.9 billion to replenish defense articles and defense services provided to Taiwan and regional partners • $542 million to strengthen U.S. military capabilities in the region • $133 million to enhance the production and development of artillery and critical munitions • Provides additional flexibility for Foreign Military Financing loans and loan guarantees.
• Provisions added by the House (R-sum; CBO Estimate): TikTok (Prevent app store availability or web hosting services in the U.S. for ByteDance-controlled applications); Russian assets for a Ukraine Support Fund; Hamas, Syria, and Iran sanctions; and sanctions for Fentanyl trafficking. On a related matter, the Congressional Research Service released a new report, “Iran: Background and U.S. Policy.”  Background on TikTok provisions
• Link to today’s Biden letter formalizing emergency designations in the bill which exempt spending from the discretionary caps.

Tuesday, April 23: Senate is now considering the House-passed Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan-Humanitarian Aid-TikTok/Sanctions bill (H.R. 815). 

1. Motion to table the Schumer motion to refer H.R. 815, the National Security Supplemental (the Schumer motion was a component of “filling the amendment tree”). (“Filling the amendment tree” is a procedure that prevents opponents of a measure from delaying passage by offering amendments and forcing multiple votes.) Motion to table the Schumer motion failed 48-50. (Senator Sanders voted in favor. Senators Hawley and Paul did not vote; otherwise, party line.)
2. Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur in the House message to accompany H.R.815, National Security Supplemental.  (“Invoking cloture” is a procedure to prevent a filibuster and requires a supermajority of 60 Senators. Once cloture is invoked, further debate time is limited and amendments must be germane.) Cloture invoked 80-19, advancing the measure towards final passage in a strong bipartisan vote.  Following the cloture vote, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believed the strong support showed the GOP had “turned the corner on the isolationist movement.”
3. Senate voted 75-20 to waive the 1974 Budget Act (3/5 being required) following a point of order raised by Senator Lee against spending classified as emergency requirements outside the reach of discretionary spending caps.
4. Senate voted 79-18 to pass H.R. 815, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, as amended by the House, clearing the measure for the President.

Senate Approps Chair Murray Stmt | Ranking Member Collins Stmt

Related to the supplemental bill’s aid to Taiwan: the Congressional Research Service has released a new report, Taiwan Defense Issues for Congress.

Monday, April 22:  Politico reports the following changes to earmark rules under consideration by the House GOP: “Speaker Mike Johnson is navigating another demand from conservatives that has flown more under the radar: Changing the rules on earmarks. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) is leading appropriations critics in proposing an item-by-item scrutiny system to root out ‘political’ projects in both chambers. But new Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) has his own ideas. He told us he wants to unlock the possibility of more earmarks, this time in the Labor-HHS-Education funding bill, which was off limits for member-directed projects last time around. Besides that, he doesn’t see many ‘extensive changes’ this year. The final call is up to Johnson, who of course faces the added pressure from conservatives still weighing an ouster vote.”

See Chron for actions prior to the above date. 

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