Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 599.
This is the Fiscal Year 2027 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. It provides specific funding levels for DOI bureaus, Indian Affairs, wildland fire, EPA programs, and related accounts, and includes many policy riders restricting or directing agency rules, reissuances, and program authorities.
Progressives highlight riders that weaken Endangered Species Act protections.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this is a conventionally drafted, comprehensive annual appropriations measure that supplies detailed funding levels, availability periods, and many legislative riders affecting administration of programs and rules.
This is the Fiscal Year 2027 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
It provides specific funding levels for DOI bureaus, Indian Affairs, wildland fire, EPA programs, and related accounts, and includes many policy riders restricting or directing agency rules, reissuances, and program authorities.
Standard appropriations funding improves baseline prospects, but numerous contentious riders and legal-change provisions substantially reduce overall enactability.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this is a conventionally drafted, comprehensive annual appropriations measure that supplies detailed funding levels, availability periods, and many legislative riders affecting administration of programs and rules. It integrates closely with existing law and provides the customary fiscal and administrative authorities expected in an appropriations act.
Progressives highlight riders that weaken Endangered Species Act protections.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives highlight riders that weaken Endangered Species Act protections.
Generally critical.
While the bill funds conservation, tribes, and agency operations, numerous riders limit endangered species protections, block environmental rules, and constrain climate- and public‑land safeguards.
Mixed.
The bill funds core agency missions, tribal programs, and wildfire response, but contains numerous policy riders that constrain agency flexibility and raise governance and legal concerns.
Generally supportive.
The bill funds agencies and emergency response while imposing riders that limit perceived regulatory overreach, protect multiple‑use land access, and prioritize energy and economic activity.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Standard appropriations funding improves baseline prospects, but numerous contentious riders and legal-change provisions substantially reduce overall enactability.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives highlight riders that weaken Endangered Species Act protections.
Standard appropriations funding improves baseline prospects, but numerous contentious riders and legal-change provisions substantially redu…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this is a conventionally drafted, comprehensive annual appropriations measure that supplies detailed funding levels, availability periods, and many legislative riders affecting…
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