Chairwoman of the Senate Senate Senate Susan Collins, a republican Maine, left, and the highest democrat in the commission, senator Patty Murray from the state of Washington, on the marogues of the committee on Thursday, July 31, 2025 (photos from the WebCast Committee)
Washington – the US Senate Committee on Thursday, largely rejected Trump’s administration proposals to reduce the financing of educational programs, subsidies for medical research, health initiatives and facilitate in the security of Ukraine.
Instead, the senators of both parties agreed to augment expenditure on the account of work, health and services and education for a budget year 2026, as well as a defense bill, and gathered the White House movement to dismantle the Education Department.
Check -in against President Donald Trump was significant when Congress is heading towards a possible start and partial closing of the government when the financial year is September 30.
In response to the separate cancellation of the subsidy by the Trump administration and freezing of funds approved by the Congress, the senators also included language in the Labour-Hhs-Education expenditure account to create the dates of formula subsidies to be issued on time.
The chairwoman of the Susan Collins Senate Committee, a republican Maine, said that the bill on financing work departments, health and education “Priority treats financing to make Americans healthier and supporting life -saving medical research through targeted financing.”
The measure provides USD 116.6 billion for HHS, which is an augment in USD 446 million in discretionary financing in the previous tax year. It includes an augment in cancer research by $ 150 million and an augment in $ 100 million in the research of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the ban on the administrative ceiling of indirect costs at the National Institutes of Health, in accordance with abstract from Democrats. Currently, there is a limitation of how much Nih research universities and medical schools pay for indirect costs indefinite order in the ongoing lawsuit.
Trump’s budget proposal also reduced the financing of control centers and prevention of diseases based in Atlanta to $ 4.2 billion, but the senators voted that the agency has allocated $ 9.1 billion by the agency.
$ 8.8 billion was also included in the subsidy for the childcare block and the block of development and almost $ 12.4 billion at Head Start.
The highest democrat in the committee, Senator Patty Murray from the state of Washington, said that although the law rejects many cuts of financing Trump administration, this is “only half of the equation.”
“We now have an administration that intends to ignore Congress, break the law and do everything that in his power, without transparency, demolition of programs and agencies that help families,” she said. “There is no magic ball that will change this unfortunate reality.”
Murray also expressed disappointment that the act did not finance the corporation for public broadcast. Trump sent the so -called request to resign to Congress, approved by both chambers, This pulled $ 1.1 billion in previously approved funds in the next two years for an agency that finances NPR and PBS.
The Act on expenditure on Labour-HHS education for the financial year 2026 fainted from the Senate Commission with double-sided voting 26-3.
Senators also adopted the Act on defense measures for the financial year 2026 in voting 26-3.
Rejected education departments
The text of the Act exacerbates the requirements to ensure that the levels of the education department staff must be sufficient to conduct the agency’s mission, and his work cannot be commissioned to other agencies or departments to fulfill statutory obligations, according to Senator Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin, the highest democrat on the panel of expenses dealing with HHS expenditure.
The agency noticed a reduction or RIF at the beginning of this year, which looked at over 1,300 employees and achieved wide swaths of department. . Supreme Court He cleaned the way earlier in July so that the agency could temporarily continue mass layoffs.
The bill also provides $ 5.78 billion per School improvement programs – which support programs before and after school, education in rural areas, STEM education and college advice and professional professional advice.
Application for Trump’s budget in 2026. $ 12 billion for expenditure cutting In the education department, but the committee allocated $ 79 billion for discretionary financing.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon He defended Trump’s broad proposals during the appearance in June before the Senate, the HHS Labor Party Education Subsidet.
During the Thursday marker, Murray called the president’s proposal to reject the Department of Education “absurd”.
“I still hope that we can do more when it comes to demanding responsibility, transparency and that this administration actually warns our regulations,” said Murray. “We all know that President Trump cannot dismantle the Education Department or send education programs to other agencies. The authorization of the provisions prevents this.”
The agency was a witness A dizzying set of cuts And the changes since Trump’s office, because he and his administration try to dramatically browse a federal role in education and distribute the department.
The Act maintains the same maximum annual reward for the Pell grant from the previous year awards for 7395 USD. A government subsidy helps low -income students to pay for studies.
The Trump’s budget application required almost cutting 1700 USD with a maximum prize.
Health expenditure
Baldwin said that the general bill is a “compromise”. She pointed to how Republicans and Democrats agreed to augment funds for the Suicide helpline by $ 988 by $ 2 million and another $ 20 million to regain the abuse of substance.
The draft expenditure account will also provide $ 1.6 billion for state subsidies to respond opioids, which is a subsidy based on formulas for countries dealing with the opioid crisis.
Senators rejected the Trump administration application for limiting national health research institutes by 40% and instead concluded over $ 400 million in a total of $ 48.7 billion.
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff said he was grateful, that the committee worked on the basis of bilateral to reject the stern Trump’s cuts for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in his family state.
“I explained (this) very clear that I would not accept the destruction of CDC,” said Ossoff. “I am grateful that Republicans and Democrats meet in this committee to defend this important institution based in Georgia.”
Proponents of medical examinations praised legislation.
“The chairman of Collins and vice -chairman Murray deserve special recognition for their leadership in dealing with this priority. Thousands of ACS may volunteers from all over the country, write to their legislators in this matter, and in a statement is deeply encouraging.
Americorps, financing of the labor corps
A request for Trump’s budget was also proposed $ 4.6 billion for expenditure cutting in the work department.
The expenditure account also maintains financing WorkVocational training program for newborn adults is $ 1.76 billion.
The application for Trump’s budget was intended to completely eliminate the program.
The administration claims that the program is “financially non -balanced, has excessive privileged costs, risks the safety of young adults and often worsened the participants”, according to the summary of the budget application.
The expenditure account also includes $ 15 billion for social security administration, which is an augment in $ 100 million in relation to the President’s budget application to deal with personnel deficiencies.
The administration also proposed the elimination of Americorps.
However, senators maintained funds for Americorps for the 2026 financial year at $ 1.25 billion.
Defense expenses have also increased
Defensive protection issues for the 2026 budget year, which the senators worked on, were an augment in the application for the president’s budget.
“I think that not only the previous administration, but also this administration, underestimated the level of challenges we have,” said Senator Mitch McConnell, chairman of the defense panel.
The Kentucky Republican said that the account provides $ 851.9 billion for a budget year 2026.
He said that the upper line is higher than the application for the president’s budget, because “we cannot seriously solve these challenges, at the same time artificially limiting our resources” – challenges such as war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East.
The bill also rejects the efforts of Trump’s administration to reduce funds to facilitate Ukraine in the war with Russia.
“The closing of commitment to Ukraine would undermine our army’s efforts to prepare for a modern battlefield,” said McConnell.
During the markers of the Act on defense expenses, Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat Illinois, introduced a change requiring the internal security department to reimburse the costs of the Defense Department in order to enforce immigration law.
Since the Trump administration seeks to implement the mass deportation plans of people without constant legal status, American military and immigration was entwined, from the distribution of the national guard to the loss of immigration protests in Los Angeles after immigrants in the bay of Guantanamo.
Durbin said that until now DHS has cost the Department of Defense $ 900 million, from the costs of staff after housing immigrants at military bases.
Durbin said that the cost of a room 180 people in the Gatanamo bay cost the Defense Department of $ 40 million in three months.
His amendment failed in voting 14-15.
