Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

FY26 Appropriations: The House Appropriations Committee will kick off its markups of the 12 fiscal 2026 spending bills after the Memorial Day recess, with the first subcommittee markups set for June 5. The plan is for appropriators to kick things off with the Military Construction-VA and Agriculture subcommittee markups. The Labor-HHS-Education markup will come last and is expected to be the most difficult of the dozen due to the depth of proposed cuts. The White House budget office has proposed flat defense spending and nearly 23 percent cuts to domestic and foreign aid programs on average.

Congress will be on Recess this week in observance of Memorial Day. They will return to normally scheduled business on June 3rd. Be looking for your next R&P on June 9th.