WASHINGTON (March 11, 2025) – The House of Representatives passed a temporary measure to fund the government until October at close to last year’s spending levels—with an assortment of distressing cuts—setting the stage for the larger contest over the budget for fiscal 2026.
Following is reaction from Alexandra Adams, chief policy advocacy officer for NRDC Action Fund:
“This Republican band-aid tees up the party’s larger plan to slash services for working families and clean energy investments to help fund a massive tax cut mostly for billionaires like Trump and Musk. They’re taking a chainsaw to the government and the House majority is slinking along, abandoning its check and balance duties and ceding the power of the purse to an off-the-rails president and his unelected partner in hacking apart the government.
“Working families are paying the price, as Trump sacks the professional public servants we all depend on to show up when disaster strikes, administer a basic safety net, defend clean air and water, clean up hazardous waste and root out tax cheats, scam artists and unsafe food and medicine.
“Voters didn’t ask to dismantle the government, but someone else did: the authors of Project 2025 and the billionaire oil and gas donors who helped bankroll Trump’s campaign. It’s time for Congress to hammer out a clean fiscal ’26 budget that invests in everyone – not just billionaires.”
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