Sponsor
Harold Dallas Rogers
Representative · R-KY
Representative · R-KY
Official title: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Introduced September 12, 2025 by Harold Dallas Rogers
This bill increases congressional oversight, reporting, cybersecurity reviews, and targeted savings while enabling limited intra‑agency flexibility and some local investments — but it does so alongside significant cuts and restrictions that weaken climate and environmental protections, limit research and certain civil‑liberty protections, reduce agency flexibility, and constrain some public‑health and enforcement tools.
Taxpayers and Congress: agencies (Commerce, DOJ, NASA, NSF) must provide quarterly account-level reports and Inspectors General audits with public posting, increasing transparency and oversight of unobligated/obligated balances and grant spending.
Federal employees and taxpayers: establishes supply‑chain and NIST/FBI‑informed risk review requirements for high/moderate‑impact federal information systems, reducing cyber‑espionage and supply‑chain risks.
Congress and taxpayers: requires 15‑day notice and tighter limits for major reprogramming actions, protecting Congress’s budget priorities and reducing ad hoc program shifts.
Taxpayers, coastal and rural communities, and conservation efforts: cuts to NSF/NIST/NOAA/Commerce climate research and limitations on climate/offshore wind permitting plus removal of some whale protections reduce federal climate science, resilience planning, clean‑energy opportunities, and endangered species safeguards.
Pregnant people, incarcerated individuals, and employees: bans and restrictions on use of DOJ/federal funds for abortions (except narrow exceptions), removal of EEOC accommodation funding for elective abortion, and limits on federal facilitation reduce abortion access and workplace pregnancy‑related protections.
Federal agencies, state governments, and service recipients: tight reprogramming limits, caps on transfers, and rescissions (including several hundred million cut from DOJ accounts) reduce agencies’ flexibility to respond to emerging needs and may shrink grants or services.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Provides FY2026 appropriations for Commerce/DOJ/Census with limits on transfers and many funding bans/riders covering DEI/CRT, abortion-related DOJ funds, immigration legal services, certain climate/species rules, and ESG.
Provides FY2026 appropriations and administrative conditions for Commerce (including NOAA), the Department of Justice, Census/BEA activities, and related programs while imposing numerous limits on how funds may be used. The bill authorizes intra-departmental transfers, advance payments, and hiring uses for Commerce, and attaches broad restrictions and reporting requirements for DOJ, NOAA, Census, NSF, and other federal activities. It also contains many categorical funding bans and policy riders covering DEI and certain trainings, abortion-related uses of DOJ funds, some climate and species protections, immigration-related legal services and apportionment rules, and prohibitions on ESG investments and CRT-related instruction.