Senate Appropriations Postpones Markup of Funding Bill for NTIA, Other Commerce Agencies
Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, postponed the panel’s Thursday markup of its FY 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee funding bill after Democrats successfully attached an amendment that would bar using federal money to relocate the FBI’s headquarters to anywhere other than the previously approved location in Greenbelt, Maryland. Senate Appropriations initially voted 21-6 to advance the bill, which will include annual funding for NTIA and other Commerce Department agencies. The total later narrowed after the panel voted 15-14 to attach the FBI amendment. Collins then said she was calling a “long recess” that postponed action on the measure.
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Senate Appropriations hadn’t released the funding bill’s text as of Thursday afternoon, but CJS Chairman Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said it’s “as close to being normal as what this committee would do and what this subcommittee has done in the past.” The funding bill reportedly doesn’t make as severe cuts to Commerce agencies as President Donald Trump originally proposed last month (see 2506020056). Trump proposed that NTIA receive $46 million for FY26, a 19% decrease from FY 2024 and FY 2025 (see 2403040083).