After a markup session during which numerous amendments were considered, the House Appropriations Committee adopted its FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science funding bill by a vote of 32 – 28.
The bill, which funds a number of science agencies, including NSF, NOAA, NASA, and NIST, is available here.
The text of the report, which details how the funds are to be spent, is available here.
In preparation for its markup tomorrow morning, the House Appropriations Committee has released the report that accompanies the FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill. The report includes details on funding levels provided to the agencies. The report is available here.
NSF
NSF would be funded at $7.0 billion under this bill, a decrease of $1.75 billion below the current level.
The Research and Related Activities account would be funded at $6.44 billion, a decrease of $736 million.
The Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction would receive $172.95 million, which is $78.1 million below the current level.
Although the entire National Science Board has been dismissed, the bill appropriates $3.05 million to the board.
NOAA
The bill appropriates a total of $5.85 billion to NOAA, a cut of $319.8 million.
Within NOAA, activities funded by the Operations, Research, and Facilities account would see a total of $4.69 billion, of which $4.01 billion would be from direct appropriations and $659 million would be from a transfer of funds from the ‘‘Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries’’ Fund and $28 million from prior year funds.
OAR would be funded at $580.2 million overall. This amount includes $92.5 million for Climate CIs and Labs and $20 million for the RISA program. Sea Grant and Sea Grant Aquaculture would be level funded at $80 million and $14 million, respectively.
As part of the National Ocean Service, the Regional IOOS Observations network would be funded at $56 million.
NASA
NASA would be level funded at $24.44 billion.
The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) would be funded at $6 billion, a cut of $1.25 billion. Within SMD, Earth Science would be funded at $1.325 billion while Planetary Science would see a total of $2.5 billion. Astrophysics and Heliophysics would receive $1.485 billion and $625 million, respectively. Biological and Physical Sciences would see a total of $65 million.
The bill proposes to fund the Space Tech Directorate at $913 million, a cut of $7.5 million, while Aeronautics would be appropriated a total of $850 million, a cut of $85 million.
The Space Grant Program would be level funded at $58 million.
The full House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up the bill tomorrow morning. The Senate has yet to take any action on its version.
The NOAA budget request for FY2027 is now available here.
As previously reported, the budget calls for significant reductions across the agency. Like last year’s request, this budget includes the proposed elimination of the the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
The budget documents for NIH are now available on line here. The page includes both an overall summary of the agency budget request as well detailed requests for each of the institutes and centers.
Overall request is $41.5 billion for the agency, a $5-billon cut below the current programmatic level.