House appropriators advanced their spending bill for the State Department and foreign aid Tuesday after adopting new language on oil revenues and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Appropriations Committee approved the Republicans’ State-Foreign Operations spending measure, 35-27.
The fiscal 2027 legislation proposes to zero out the United States’ contributions to a number of international climate and environment organizations while rescinding $1 billion for overseas disaster assistance.
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It would block funding for the implementation of a carbon tax — an apparent response to multilateral efforts to curtail global shipping emissions — and would make some foreign aid contingent on certain energy- or environment-related actions.
