The House passed its first four fiscal 2025 spending bills with little fanfare, but a policy rider attached to the Financial Services appropriations measure that has caused trouble in the past could pose a bigger challenge for GOP leaders when it reaches the floor, likely in late July after the Republican National Convention.
The rider attached to the Financial Services bill, which would block the District of Columbia from enforcing a 2014 D.C. law banning employers from discriminating against workers based on reproductive health decisions, is identical to a provision included in the House’s fiscal 2024 version of the legislation.
Leadership pulled the fiscal 2024 bill from the House floor at the last minute in November amid foundering support among Republicans from competitive districts, who opposed the rider, and among conservatives, who took issue with a provision allowing the General Services Administration to implement its plan to build a new FBI headquarters in Greenbelt, Md.
