Susan Collins, Chairman of the US Senate, Left and the Supreme Democrat in the Committee, Senator Patty Murray from Washington State, on Thursday, July 31, 2025, (Photos of the Webcast Committee)
Washington -The US Senate Committee on Thursday rejected the suggestions of the Trump administration, the financing of educational programs, medical research grants, health initiatives and security support from Ukraine.
Instead, the senators of both parties agreed to raise expenditure on work, health and human services and educational expenditure for the 2026 financial year and the Defense Act, and blamed the move of the White House to reduce the Ministry of Education.
The setback against President Donald Trump was significant because the congress led to a possible conclusion of the government and a partial government arrest after the end of the financial year on September 30.
In response to the separate cancellation of grants and the freezing of funds approved by the congress by the Trump administration, the senators also inserted language into the Labor HHS parenting expenditure account in order to create appointments for the state publication of formpluses.
Susan Collins, chairman of the Senate appropriation committee, Republican of Maine, said that the draft law to finance the departments for work, health and human services and education prioritizes the financing in order to make Americans healthier and to support life-saving medical research through targeted financing.
The measure delivers 116.6 billion US dollars for HHS, an raise of $ 446 million in discretionary financing compared to the previous financial year. An raise of $ 150 million for cancer research and an raise in $ 100 million for Alzheimer’s disease research as well as a ban on an administrative limit for indirect costs at the National Institutes of Health after one Summary from Democrats. The upper limit for how much NIH research universities and medical faculties pay for indirect costs is the subject of a lasting injunction in an ongoing lawsuit.
Trump’s budget proposal also lowered the financing of the centers based in Atlanta for the control and prevention of diseases to $ 4.2 billion.
Also included are 8.8 billion US dollars for the children’s block and development block states and almost $ 12.4 billion.
The Supreme Democrat in the Committee, Senator Patty Murray from the state of Washington, said that the legislation rejects many of the Financing Curves of the Trump government, but only half of the equation.
“We currently have an administration that intends to ignore the congress, violate the law and do everything without transparency to reduce programs and agencies that help families,” she said. “There is no magical ball that will change this unfortunate reality.”
Murray also expressed her disappointment that the legislation did not finance the company for public broadcasting. Trump sent a so -called draft application to the congress, which was approved by both chambers. That has been investing 1.1 billion US dollars for the agency, which is financed for the agency, the NPR and PBS.
The expenditure law for HHHS-Education for the 2026 financial year was equipped with a double votes of 26: 3 from the Senate Committee.
The senators also adopted the law on the means of defense for the 2026 financial year with 26: 3.
Removal of the educational department spurned
The draft law of text exacerbates the requirements so that the personnel department of the educational department is sufficient to carry out the agency’s missions, and their work cannot be outsourced to other agencies or departments in order to meet the legal responsibility, says Senator Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin, the top democratic top panel, which deals with the spread of Labor-HHS-Education promise.
The agency recorded a reduction in violence or Rif at the beginning of this year, in which more than 1,300 employees dodge and reached wide parts of the department. The Supreme Court solved the way in July so that the agency could temporarily continue with these mass distances.
The invoice also offers 5.78 billion US dollars for School improvement programs – who support programs, rural education, MINT formation as well as university and career advice before and after school.
Trump’s budget request 2026 had requested Expenses of $ 12 billion In the educational department, however, the committee provided 79 billion US dollars before discretionary financing.
Minister of Education Linda McMahon defended Trump’s comprehensive proposals During the June before the Senate under Committee of Labor HHS-Education.
During the markup on Thursday, Murray called the President’s proposal to broadcast the Ministry of Education “Absurd”.
“I still hope that we can do more when it comes to demanding accountability and transparency and that this administration actually follows our laws,” said Murray. “We all know that President Trump cannot reduce the Ministry of Education or Ship Education to other agencies. Approval of the laws prevent this.”
The agency saw a witness of one Disproperary excerpts And changes since taking office when he and his administration try to dramatically revise the federal role in education and to reduce the department.
The invoice has the same maximum annual price for the Pell Grant from the previous price year at $ 7,395. The state subsidy helps low -income students to pay for college.
Trump’s budget request had asked to almost shorten $ 1,700 from the maximum award.
Health expenditure
Baldwin said that the overall calculation was a “compromise”. She pointed out how Republicans and Democrats agreed to raise the funds for the 988 Suicide hotline by 2 million US dollars and a further 20 million US dollar for the recovery of drug abuse.
The expenditure calculation also offers $ 1.6 billion for state opioid bets of words, which is a formula-based grant for states to address the opioid crisis.
The Senators rejected the Trump government to reduce the National Institute of Health Research by 40%, and instead found funding of more than 400 million US dollars for a total of $ 48.7 billion.
The Senator of Georgia, Jon Ossoff, said that he was grateful that the committee in his home state on a cross -party basis for the control and prevention of diseases for the control of the centers for the control and prevention of diseases.
“I made it very clear that I would not accept the destruction of the CDC,” said Ossoff. “I am grateful that Republicans and Democrats come together in this committee to defend this important institution in the state of Georgia.”
Proponents of medical research praised the legislation.
“The chairman Collins and the deputy chairman Murray deserve special recognition for their leadership in order to make this a priority. Thousands of ACs may have written volunteers from all over the country to their legislators, and it is deeply encouraging to see their voices loud and clearly”
Americorps, job corps financing maintained
Trump’s budget request was also proposed Expenses of 4.6 billion US dollars in the Ministry of Labor.
The expenditure calculation also considers the financing to be Job CorpsA career training program for youthful adults with $ 1.76 billion.
Trump’s budget request wanted to completely eliminate the program.
The administration says that the program is “financially not sustainable, over an exorbitant cost of perpetrators, risk the security of young adults and often fell less,” said a summary of the budget application.
The expenditure calculation also includes $ 15 billion for the social security authority, an raise of $ 100 million compared to the President’s budget application to fix the lack of personnel.
The administration also proposed the removal of American.
However, the senators financed $ 1.25 billion for American for the 2026 financial year.
The defense spending also increased
The funds of defense for the 2026 financial year, on which the senators worked, was an raise in the President’s budget application.
“I think not only the previous administration, but also this administration underestimated the challenge we have,” said Senator Mitch McConnell, chairman of the defense body.
The Kentucky Republican said that the invoice for the 2026 financial year contains 851.9 billion US dollars.
He said the topline was higher than the President’s budget request because “we do not seriously tackle these challenges and artificially restrict our resources” – challenges such as war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East.
The law also rejects the efforts of the Trump government to reduce the financing in order to support Ukraine against Russia in the war.
“The closure of the commitment with Ukraine would undermine the efforts of our military to prepare for the modern battlefield,” said McConnell.
During the attention of the law on defense expenditure, Senator Dick Durbin, democrat of Illinois, introduced a change to demand the Ministry of Homeland Security to reimburse the Department of Defense the costs of enforcing immigration.
Since the Trump government aims to carry out its plans for the mass deportation of people without constant legal status, it has intertwined the US military and immigration enforcement, from the employ of the National Guard to the oppression of immigration protests to Los Angeles to the accommodation of immigrants in the military base of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Durbin said that DHS has so far cost the Department of Defense 900 million US dollars, from personnel costs to living immigrants on military bases.
Durbin said the cost of 180 people in Guantanamo Bay had cost the Ministry of Defense $ 40 million over three months.
His application for change failed with 14-15 votes.
