House GOP appropriators are allowing earmarks back into their chamber’s Labor-HHS-Education bill after barring them for the past three years, according to guidance that House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., released Wednesday for the upcoming fiscal 2027 cycle.
Unlike the Senate’s version, however, Cole’s guidance opens up only the bill’s Health Resources and Services Administration account for “community project funding,” which is largely used to provide funding to hospitals.
And the House has put significantly more restrictions on eligibility within that account, largely limiting the earmarks to just rural clinics and hospitals and Federally Qualified Health Centers, according to subcommittee guidance released Wednesday.
