The House this week will consider a slew of Republican amendments to fiscal 2025 spending bills that aim to further slash federal energy, environment and climate programs.
The Rules Committee on Monday made in order for debate more than 150 proposed amendments to House appropriators’ Interior-Environment and Energy-Water bills. Both spending bills are scheduled to hit the floor this week and have drawn Democratic ire for their spending cuts and policy riders.
Indeed, the spending measures are already packed with provisions that would slash funding for climate change and clean energy initiatives while opening up more federal lands for mining and fossil fuel extraction. The Rules Committee advanced amendments Monday that would double down on those efforts and rejected Democratic proposals to counter them.
“No matter how much the Republicans want to stick their heads in the sand, it will not change the fact that climate change is real. It is science,” said Rules ranking member Jim McGovern (D-Mass.). He said the bills amount to “more giveaways for big polluters.”
