Today, the House Appropriations Committee released the FY27 bill for the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. The bill will be in subcommittee tomorrow, April 30. The text provides a total discretionary allocation of $77.34 billion, a $670 million decrease from the FY26 enacted level. The bill includes $7 billion for the NSF, $6 billion for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, and $5.85 billion for NOAA.
Notably, Section 542 extends indirect cost blocking language, holding the negotiated rates at FY24 levels. This language would block the Trump administration and Office of Management and Budget from imposing caps on indirect costs for federal research grants.
SEC. 542. In making Federal financial assistance, the Department of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation shall continue to apply the negotiated indirect cost rates in section 200.414 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations, including with respect to the approval of deviations from negotiated indirect cost rates, to the same extent and in the same manner as such negotiated indirect cost rates were applied in fiscal year 2024: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this or prior Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts, or otherwise made available to the Department of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation may be used to develop, modify, or implement changes to such fiscal 聽year 2024 negotiated indirect cost rates.
Full bill text is available and a summary is available .