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New: Top Senate Approp Dem Patty Murray introduces a new bill to impose penalties on the White House for using taxpayer funds for political ads.
Bill would cut OMB's budget by $20 million each time the admin violates the anti-propoganda law
News in Punchbowl News Midday:
Merkley and Murray will try to UC a bill later today that would block the White House’s pocket rescission
New: Sen Dem appropriators Murray and Schatz warn ahead of Sept. 30 deadline to allocate funds that Trump admin isn’t properly distributing billions in foreign aid.
Details here ⬇️
New: Collins writes to OMB Director Russ Vought + NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya urging them not to proceed with any EO giving political appointees power over grants
🚨News: Collins says any attempt by the administration to politicize grant making at the NIH is “contrary to congressional intent.”
Statement comes after reports in WaPo & Politico that Trump admin is looking to use an EO to overhaul NIH grants
PBN text subs had it first.
Interesting House Approps hearing next week.
Trump admin has been using the Economy Act for the interagency agreements to dismantle the Ed Dept, pay for the ballroom, etc.
New: House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) responds to DeLauro.
Cole says the interagency agreement between DOD and NIH is “routine.” He adds that he spoke to the NIH director who assured Cole that no money would be taken from “basic medical research.”
No money has been transferred, Cole said.
🚨DeLauro says she's learned DOD is trying to use NIH money to supplement the Pentagon's budget.
This is the kind of thing Approps Dems will surely be investigating/going after if Dems take the majority next Congress
New: The White House has a memo going around dispelling the notion that the Cruz/Cantwell NIL framework preempts state laws banning transgender women in women’s sports.
Some GOP senators raised that concern. Memo attached
News: The National Sheriffs’ Association urges Thune and Schumer to oppose the delay of hemp ban that’s in the CR.
H/t @ccleffert
Hemp fight continues to heat up.
Some beverage industry groups, convenience stores, wholesalers out with a letter to House and Senate leaders today urging them to delay the hemp ban.
GOP senators had a fiery discussion on this at lunch today. It’s the issue currently dragging out passage of the CR.
Letter below. H/t @AndrewDesiderio
News in @PunchbowlNews AM: Duffy sent a letter to EPW, Commerce and Banking committee leaders outlining the Trump administration's priorities for the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization.
Those priorities include a rail safety measure championed by VP JD Vance that's opposed by some R's.
