Andres Picon
@andpicon
Covering Congress' actions on energy and the environment at @POLITICO's @EENewsUpdates ⚡️🌎 | [email protected] | Proud Venezolano and New Yorker
House Republicans also inserting language in their Interior-Environment spending bill calling for an “all of the above” energy strategy. That has been a GOP mantra, but appears to run counter to Trump administration goals of waylaying solar/wind. Energy Secretary Chris Wright…
Adopted by voice vote.
An Approps Committee aide tells me this plaque is not "new." It was lost and recently found. It has been around for years, but it has not been on the dais recently.
👀House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole appears to have a new plaque below his nameplate emphasizing Congress' power of the purse. Second photo is from a recent markup; the plaque was not there. Comes hours ahead of House vote on White House's requested funding rescissions.
Vought said this week that the funding "has to flow" if the rescissions aren't passed before Saturday. "If we're outside of the 45-day window, we have to remove our hold on the money, so we will not implement the cuts if this vote doesn’t go our way." But who knows...
Yes! After the 45 days the admin is legally required to release the funds, but they were illegally pausing them before the 45 days. So if Congress goes past Friday, the admin will go back to illegally pausing the funds until the House passes it. Senate privilege is what mattered.
Dems (& some R's) have warned that the rescissions package could mark the end of bipartisan appropriations on Capitol Hill That's fine with OMB director Russ Vought “The appropriations process has to be less bipartisan,” he told reporters this AM politico.com/live-updates/2…
A few hours ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the Alaska Peninsula, just south of Sand Point. Local residents and summer visitors alike were able to evacuate thanks to federal tsunami advisories relayed through local public broadcasting stations. That’s the real world.…
Sen. Collins out with a long statement on her no vote, but key line here: “The rescissions package has a big problem – nobody really knows what program reductions are in it.”
Democratic senators are plotting ways to narrow the scope of energy and climate rescissions in the GOP package. Also, more details on Sen. Mike Rounds’ deal with the White House to divert “Green New Deal money” toward tribal broadcasting grants.
Democrats eye changes to climate spending clawbacks ow.ly/wLVu106fYks