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The Week in Climate Hearings: Appropriations Jam
Senate GOP are jamming a rescissions package; House GOP are jamming a flood of anti-climate appropriations bills
Hill Heat is trying to be on summer break, but this is a very big week in Congress. Our apologies for the lighter detail in this week’s preview of Congressional climate hearings; as a change of pace, we will be publishing a long-form personal essay from Hill Heat contributor Jordan Haedtler this week.
This week, U.S. Senate Republicans are scrambling to pass H.R. 4 before the July 18 deadline, to ratify Trump’s $9.4 rescission package, which will halt funding for the Montreal Protocol and other United Nations initiatives and permanently eliminate U.S.A.I.D. and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. More broadly, the enactment of this package will cede its Constitutional appropriations authority to Trump.
In the House, Republican appropriators are jamming fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills through committee.
On Monday, the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development subcommittee is marking up its bill starting at 5 pm and the Energy and Water Development subcommittee is conducting its markup starting at 6 pm. The full committee markup of both bills is scheduled for Thursday at 10 am.
The THUD mark ratifies dozens of Trump executive orders, and the EWD mark makes severe cuts to clean-energy initiatives. More details are in the links above.
On Tuesday, three subcommittee markups are happening
At 10 am, the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies markup begins. The plan is to cut the Environmental Protection Agency budget by one quarter.
At 11 am, the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs markup begins. Multilateral assistance for international programs is gutted.
At noon, the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies markup begins. National Science Foundation funding is cut by one-quarter.
Click through the links to see the bill text and summaries.
On Wednesday morning, a House Natural Resources subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the Wall Street control of Puerto Rico’s finances and privatization of its power grid. At the same time, a House Science subcommittee is holding a hearing on weather forecasting technologies, including commercial weather observation satellites and AI modeling. Texas state climatologist Patrick Nielson-Gammon is among the witnesses, who will discuss the recent deadly flash floods in Texas and New Mexico.
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