Some agencies face significant budget cuts under House appropriations package

'Frustrated' Republicans obstruct Trump's new round of cuts

A new wrinkle has emerged in President Donald Trump's legislation to eliminate federal funding for foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, narrowly passed in the Senate with only Republican votes earlier this week.According to CNN, the package, which would codify in appropriations many of the cuts Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has sought to make, is "being held up for now in the House because of unrelated frustrati…

UCD professor leads effort to sound alarm on proposed science budget cuts

A distinguished University of California, Davis professor helped to lead a project urging Congress to ditch the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to federal science agencies’ fiscal year 2026 budgets, which, he asserts, threaten U.S. leadership in science, health and national security. In a press statement issued Wednesday by the university, Walter Leal and more than 1,100 National Academy of Science members — including 57 Nobel laureates and…

House Republicans Move to Slash ATF Funding, Bar DEA Merger

The agency tasked with enforcing the nation’s gun laws could soon see its size and scope of work substantially reduced under a new Republican funding proposal. The House Appropriations Committee on Monday released its 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies bill. The 154-page proposal would, among other things, cut funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco… Source

Some agencies face significant budget cuts under House appropriations package

Republican lawmakers’ plans for fiscal 2026 spending levels across government are becoming clearer, as both the House and Senate appropriations committees push forward with portions of their budget proposals this week. Some of the committees’ plans for agencies don’t cut as deeply as the White House requested in its budget proposal earlier this year. But a number of agencies would still see significant reductions in their spending and staffing a…

Wallops spared cuts by Congressional Appropriations Committee

Keith Misener photograph. Congresswoman Jen Kiggans confirmed that NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility will not face budget cuts in the upcoming fiscal year, following bipartisan efforts in Congress to restore funding levels originally targeted for reduction. Speaking in an interview with ShoreDailyNews.com, Kiggans said the administration’s proposed cuts to Wallops were met with strong resistance from the Virginia delegation. “We were ...