Washington — The House is searching for budget cuts for OSHA and other office safety agencies, in keeping with separate payments printed on the web site of the chamber’s Appropriations Committee.
The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations invoice allocates round $557.8 million to OSHA. That’s an almost 12% discount from the company’s $632.3 million budget for FY 2024.
“We must stop the out-of-control spending spree and take a critical view of some of these ‘nice to have’ programs, including those contained in this bill,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), chair of the Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, stated throughout a June 27 markup. “The bill before us represents a clear first step toward returning to fiscal responsibility, while ensuring that funding for critical and high-priority functions are maintained.”
The White House is searching for round $655 million for OSHA in FY 2025, or a 3.7% improve, in keeping with its budget request launched in March. The Senate has but to weigh in with its budget payments.
For the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the budget invoice allocates $367.8 million. That’s an almost 5.2% minimize from its $387.8 million budget in FY 2024. The White House is requesting $406.5 million.
For NIOSH, the invoice calls for $263.7 million – a 27.3% minimize from its $363 million budget in FY 2024. The White House want to preserve NIOSH’s budget unchanged in FY 2025.
“I had hoped that our bipartisan conclusion to fiscal year 2024 and our shared exhaustion from the needless chaos we were put through to get there would have generated a different path for this year’s process,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), the subcommittee’s rating member, stated in the course of the markup. “Instead of picking up where we just left off, the majority has doubled down on their already tried, trodden and failed strategy of writing blatantly partisan bills that will never become law.”
In its Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations invoice printed on June 27, the House allocates $13.8 million for the Chemical Safety Board. That’s a couple of 4% minimize from the company’s FY 2024 budget of $14.4 million. The Biden administration is requesting $17.4 million for CSB.
“I look at the process this way: I would be shocked if Republicans and Democrats showed up the first day on a bill of this magnitude and agreed,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), who chairs the Appropriations Committee, stated in the course of the markup, referencing the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold. “It starts here, but it doesn’t end here. It’s always a journey. Along the way, the bill will get to a place where it can be bipartisan.”
