"While appropriators remain stuck on full-year fiscal 2027 legislation, stopgap and supplemental spending bills could address environmental priorities."
"Bipartisan dealmaking to fund energy, water and environment programs has ground to a halt in the Senate as top appropriators butt heads over spending levels and policy riders.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has been effectively frozen for weeks amid stubborn partisan disagreements and the extended absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell. As the House plowed ahead in recent months, marking up all 12 of the annual spending bills, negotiations in the Senate have gone nowhere.
The deadlock means top appropriators for energy and environment priorities cannot finalize legislation to fund EPA, the Interior Department and the Department of Energy for fiscal 2027 — creating uncertainty for the future of those agencies’ programs as Congress barrels toward the Sept. 30 funding deadline."
