House Appropriations to Vote on Keeping FCC Funding Level for FY26
The House Appropriations Committee said Thursday night that it plans to vote Wednesday on the Financial Services Subcommittee’s FY 2026 funding bill, which proposes to maintain the FCC’s annual funding at $390.2 million (see 2507210064). Financial Services advanced the measure in June with a set of riders that would bar the agency from using money to enforce certain policies that originated during the Biden administration and have been in Republicans’ crosshairs, including its 2024 digital discrimination order (see 2507220057). The markup session will begin at 10:30 a.m. in 2359 Rayburn.
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House Appropriations also said the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee plans to mark up its FY26 funding bill Tuesday evening. That meeting will begin at 5 p.m. in H-140 Capitol. Lobbyists told us the measure is likely to mirror the Senate Appropriations LHHS Subcommittee’s FY26 funding bill (S-2587) in not restoring any federal money for CPB, which Congress clawed back in July via the 2025 Rescissions Act (see 2507310062). CPB said in early August that it was beginning an “orderly wind-down of its operations” when its FY 2025 funding expires at the end of September (see 2508010061).