David Reich

Senior Fellow @CenterOnBudget focused on federal budget issues, especially appropriations and budget process. Formerly w/ House Approps & House Budget committee

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At a minimum, policymakers should adopt the overall Senate levels in their final bills.

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The 2025 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on a bipartisan basis last week does a far better job of meeting national needs than the partisan measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee last month.

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The bipartisan Senate bills increase overall funding for 2025 non-defense appropriations by almost 3%. While tight, this funding level accommodates rising costs & better meets the nation’s needs than the partisan House bills’ damaging 6% overall cut below already low levels.

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The Senate takes a better course. Instead of more cuts, it would increase the 2025 non-defense total by almost enough to keep up with inflation and population. That wouldn’t make up for lost ground but would keep the hole from getting bigger.

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Leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee have announced a bipartisan agreement on funding levels for their 2025 appropriations bills that will allow more adequate funding for key priorities than the damaging approach the House is taking.

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For 2025, the Republican majority in the House is digging the hole deeper and causing the cumulative cut since 2010 to grow to 22 percent. https://t.co/jzckRuvo25