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The House Appropriations Committee passed several fiscal 2026 funding bills this week that would make deep cuts to NTEU-represented agencies.
With the new fiscal year starting on October 1, congressional leaders are considering a continuing resolution (CR) that would extend current funding through mid-November or mid-December to provide additional time to reach a final funding agreement. However, the administration’s efforts to rescind and delay the spending of current-year appropriated funds are making it difficult to reach an agreement.
Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee is continuing to pass the various funding bills that have included funding cuts at the IRS, Bureau of Fiscal Service, Department of Health and Human and Services, and the Federal Election Commission. Republican leaders have also proposed no increase in funding for the Federal Communications Commission and deep cuts to salaries and expenses at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill, which was passed by the Committee on Wednesday, would eliminate Thrift Savings Plan investment options that use environmental, social and governance criteria in investment decisions, and curtail the ability of agencies to respond to discrimination, bigotry and harassment in the federal workplace.
On a positive note, the bill includes government-wide provisions that would prevent new outsourcing under OMB Circular A-76.
During the markup of the FSGG bill, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) offered an amendment to prohibit the use of funds to implement executive orders eliminating collective bargaining rights for federal workers.
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) offered two amendments to support federal employees. The first would have overridden the President’s proposed 1 percent across-the-board pay increase and instead provide all federal employees with an across-the-board increase of 3.3 percent and an average 0.5 percent increase for locality pay. The second amendment would have banned the use of funds to implement the administration’s efforts to make tens of thousands of federal employees at-will by moving them to Schedule Policy/Career (formally known as Schedule F) in the excepted service. All three of these amendments failed.
NTEU will continue to make the case that starving agencies of the resources needed to meet their missions and creating hostile worksites hurts the American public and federal employees. Urge your members of Congress to ensure agencies have the funding and resources they need to serve the American people.