House Republican appropriators on Wednesday released the draft text of a $7.1 billion fiscal 2025 Legislative Branch spending bill.
The proposal — which leaves room for Senate-only items but doesn’t specify them in deference to that chamber — represents an overall increase of $375 million, or nearly 6 percent, from fiscal 2024. Excluding those Senate items, the bill would provide $5.5 billion, which is a boost of $189 million, or 3.5 percent, over current enacted levels.
The draft bill would provide big funding boosts to the Capitol Police, the Library of Congress and the Government Accountability Office while cutting $56.3 million from the Architect of the Capitol’s fiscal 2024 enacted levels.
