The House Appropriations Committee postponed markups of several fiscal year 2024 spending bills with no rain-check date given, the panel’s chairwoman said this week.
Citing ongoing negotiations between the administration and House Republican leadership, Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), who chairs the appropriations committee, said all markups scheduled for the week are now postponed.
“Given recent developments in the negotiations between Speaker McCarthy and the President, and in order to give the Speaker maximum flexibility as talks continue, the Committee will postpone this week’s markups,” Granger said in a statement.
The decision scuttled scheduled markups by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration subcommittee; the Homeland Security subcommittee; the panel that oversees the Legislative Branch’s budget and military construction and veterans affairs subcommittee.
None of the other appropriations subcommittees, including the Energy and Water Development panel that writes the first drafts of spending bills for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy, had hearings or markups scheduled as of Friday, though all could be affected by the logjam created by the cancellation of this week’s slate of markups.
