WASHINGTON — Today, House Republicans released the draft fiscal year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. Instead of lowering the cost of living and confronting the climate crisis, House Republicans are raising utility bills and energy prices. The legislation takes an aggressive anti-environment, pro-pollution stance with cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that endanger public health and fail to confront the climate crisis. The bill also guts resources for the arts and museums while remaining silent about the administration using the National Endowment for the Humanities as a slush fund for Trump’s Garden of Heroes and Triumphal Arch.

The fiscal year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies bill includes $39 billion, which is $675 million below the fiscal year 2026 enacted level and $7.4 billion above the budget request. The bill also provides $2.95 billion for the Wildfire Suppression Operations Reserve Fund.

The legislation:

  • Raises utility bills by shifting costs onto state and local governments and making electricity more expensive through funding cuts and policies that would cripple renewable energy development.
  • Worsens the climate crisis by cutting critical Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) work.
  • Slashes funding for national parks, threatening Americans’ ability to enjoy public lands.
  • Guts resources for museums, arts, and culture, suppressing Americans’ engagement with the arts and art education.
  • Favors polluters over public health through harmful policies that undermine EPA’s ability to regulate pollution.
  • Exploits public lands and accelerates ecosystem decline by allowing harmful and dirty mining activities and by removing Endangered Species Act protections for numerous species.

“With the release of the FY27 Interior bill, it’s clear House Republicans are once again pushing an agenda that accelerates the climate crisis, threatens the air we breathe and the water we drink, and leaves local communities to fend for themselves,” Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01) said.“While the Administration is focused on building a gilded ballroom and a triumphal Arch in the President’s honor, this bill slashes funding for cultural institutions and arts education, threatening jobs and Main Streets across the country. And the bill does nothing to rein in the administration’s assault on energy projects, all while Americans are facing soaring gas and energy prices. The cuts in this bill are a disservice to this subcommittee’s work to protect public health, conserve our lands and waters, and ensure all communities have access to a healthy environment.”

“House Republicans’ 2027 Interior funding bill is an extension of the Trump administration’s campaign to devastate the environment while enriching his corporate donors,” Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) said. “Under this bill, big companies will be freer to poison the water we drink, pollute the air we breathe, and force American families to pay the price for this damage to their health. Under President Trump, the EPA has done nothing to protect working families from harmful chemicals in the air and water. In fact, he has taken several steps to make it easier for corporate polluters to get away with it. It is clear from this bill and from this administration’s actions whose side they are on, and it is not American families. This is particularly outrageous when you consider House Republicans are okay with the spending of taxpayer dollars to build Trump an arch and a ballroom. House Republicans are more focused on Trump’s vanity projects and lining the pockets of big oil companies than lowering prices for working class, middle class, rural, and vulnerable families; protecting our public health; and preserving the planet.”

A summary of House Republicans’ 2007 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill is here. A fact sheet is here. The text of the bill is here. The subcommittee markup will be webcast live on the House Committee on Appropriations website.