House Appropriations marks up FY2027 Labor-HHS-Ed and DHS bills

On 9 June 2026 the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Representative Tom Cole (R-Okla.-4), convened a full-committee markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act and the Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act in Room 2359, Rayburn House Office Building. The Committee reported the Labor-HHS-Ed measure favourably by a recorded vote of 34 to 28 with a $189.3 billion total discretionary allocation — three percent below the FY2026 enacted level — and a Department of Health and Human Services allocation of approximately $110.8 billion (four percent below FY2026 enacted); the bill carries funding emphasis on biomedical research and rural health and a stated objective in Committee report language to return education-program funding to state administration.¹²³ The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, marked up in subcommittee on 5 June 2026, was scheduled for full-committee markup on 11 June 2026.⁴ The full-committee markup followed subcommittee markup on 5 June 2026 and is the next step in the regular appropriations process under House Rule X(1)(b)(2) and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. § 633) section 302(b) subcommittee-allocation procedure; the House Appropriations Committee approved FY2027 302(b) allocations by a 32-28 vote on 22 April 2026 in the absence of a concurrent FY2027 budget resolution.⁵⁶

1. The 34-28 Committee vote on the Labor-HHS-Ed measure tracks the partisan composition of the 119th Congress House Appropriations Committee with one Republican crossover or absence against a 35-27 Republican-majority committee roster. The recorded vote follows a Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies markup of 5 June 2026 and represents the second step in the House regular-order process: subcommittee consideration, full-committee consideration, House floor consideration, and either House-Senate conference or House-Senate ping-pong amendment exchange under House Rule XXII clause 5.¹⁷⁸

2. The Labor-HHS-Ed measure’s $189.3 billion total discretionary allocation is three percent below the FY2026 enacted total; HHS’s $110.8 billion allocation is four percent below the FY2026 HHS enacted total. The Committee report language emphasises three substantive priorities: increased funding for the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research and for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for biodefence; rural health-care provider support through the Health Resources and Services Administration; and a reduction in federal Department of Education discretionary programmes with a stated objective of “returning education back to the States,” which carries Tenth Amendment framing in the Committee report language.³⁹¹⁰¹¹

3. The Department of Homeland Security FY2027 bill, scheduled for full-committee markup on 11 June, funds U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other DHS components; the bill operates alongside the ICE and Border Patrol funding vehicle adopted through budget reconciliation in connection with the 30 April 2026 two-track DHS funding framework. The subcommittee markup on 5 June 2026 and the scheduled full-committee markup on 11 June 2026 follow the regular- order Appropriations Committee process under the FY2027 302(b) allocations approved by the committee on 22 April 2026.⁴¹²¹³⁶

4. The FY2027 appropriations cycle is 113 days from the 1 October 2026 start of FY2027 under 31 U.S.C. § 1102 as of the date of the full-committee markup. The Senate Committee on Appropriations has not held a full markup of any FY2027 bill as of 9 June 2026. A continuing resolution covering some or all of the twelve FY2027 regular appropriations bills from 1 October 2026 forward remains a procedural option if conference and floor consideration on the Labor-HHS-Ed or DHS measures cannot complete before the fiscal-year start.¹⁴¹⁵