Republican appropriators Tuesday evening approved a bill to cut spending for the Department of Transportation and reject many of President Joe Biden's budget proposals for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The bill passed out of the full House Appropriations Committee by a vote of 34-27 and would fund the two departments and related agencies with a discretionary total of nearly $90.3 billion, more than $8.5 billion less than Biden's request.While it cuts DOT's budget by about $7.2 billion from last year's enacted number, it will fund HUD at $8 billion more than fiscal 2023, which is still about $2.4 billion below Biden's asking price.
"This bill is another example of the real progress we are making to reduce overall spending while funding our highest priorities," committee Chairwoman Kay Granger said at the outset of the markup."Instead of giving the administration more grant funding to spend, this bill gets us back to funding core missions.
Democrats spent a long time slamming the amendment, even to the point of Reps. Mark Pocan and Rosa DeLauro calling their Republican colleagues"bigots" and"terrorists," respectively.
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