House Labor-HHS-Education mark-up 

Hello everyone, Quick followup from the policy call a few minutes ago: we’ll actually see the House proposed FY 2018 education funding bill late today or tonight (!) Markup will not be until tmw. I’ve excerpted more key CEF tuff below, beginning with Sarah Abernathy’s explanation why the $5 billion dollar cut to Labor-HHs_Eduction is worse for education. House Labor-HHS-Education allocation cut by $5 billion below last year’s level Sorry to bombard you with another email, but wanted to share that House Appropriations Committee Chair Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) has posted “interim” 302(b) allocations setting the spending total for each of the House’s 12 fiscal year 2018 funding bills. According to the information that CQ posted (attached), the net total for the Labor-HHS-Education funding bill is $156.0 billion, which is $5.0 billion (3.1%) below last year’s comparable total of $161.0 billion. (Both bills include program integrity funding to improve certain program operations and decrease erroneous payments, which is not subject to the spending caps. The size of the cut from 2017 to 2018 rounds to $5.0 billion regardless of whether you do or do not count the program integrity funding each year.) The table below shows regular discretionary funding (excluding program integrity, disaster, and emergency funding) for each of the 12 bills. Changes in NDD funding for each bill In the absence of these levels until now, I’ve been keeping track of how much nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding is in the bills working their way through the House Appropriations Committee to get an idea of the size of the net cut likely in the Labor-HHS-Education bill, which is entirely NDD funding. Keep in mind that many of the bills have a combination of defense and NDD funding. The attached chart is based on the Congressional Budget Office score for NDD funding in each bill, except that I’m using the total just listed for Labor-HHS-Education. The bills are listed from largest to smallest amount of NDD funding, and as you can see, Labor-HHS-Education has the biggest cut to NDD funding. Not all of that cut is likely to be to education funding, but we are assuming the bill will probably increase funding for the National Institutes of Health, meaning there is a gross cut of more than $5 billion. More from Sheryl Cohen, sen tout just a few moments ago: House Labor-HHS-Education mark-up · Bill should be released today, marked up tomorrow afternoon – The House Appropriations Committee <https://appropriations.house.gov/> should be posting its proposed FY 2018 education funding bill later this afternoon, and we’ll provide summary information and any details as soon as we can afterward. CEF will write to appropriators based on what we see in the bill but we are braced for bad news for education funding, given the bill’s overall $5 billion cut from last year’s level. · NDD cut by $9.3 billion below 2017, with Labor-HHS-Education cut by $5 billion – Attached is an updated chart showing the change in nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding from 2017 to 2018 in each of the 12 appropriations bills put forward by the House Appropriations Committee. We now have scores of the 302(b) allocation showing the NDD levels for all of the bills, and Labor-HHS-Education takes by far the biggest cut. Only three bills see increases in NDD funding – for veterans’ health care, homeland security, and a small increase for congressional security in the Legislative Branch bill. Under these bills, NDD is cut to $509.2 billion for FY 2018, a cut of $6.5 billion below the sequester-level spending cap in law and a cut of $9.3 billion below the FY 2017 level. That’s an even bigger cut than expected based on the numbers floated by House Budget Committee chair Diane Black (R-TN). · Conference call on Friday with Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) – CEF, the Coalition for Health Funding, and Campaign to Invest in America’s Workforce invite you to join a call with House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro on Friday morning, after the subcommittee has marked up the FY 2018 funding bill. Conference Call with Rep. Rosa DeLauro Ranking Member, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Friday, July 14, 2017 10:15 am ET Dial: 1.800.768.2983 Passcode: 2836625# Jeff