Lawmakers Get Second Chance to Fund Blocked 2025 Earmarks

April 2, 2025, 6:45 PM UTC

House lawmakers will have chance for a do over on earmarks they did not get for fiscal 2025.

House lawmakers will get to request earmarked money for fiscal 2026 in April and May, and members can resubmit their 2025 requests that were excluded from the recently enacted funding law.

House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) announced members can start submitting earmark requests April 14, as lawmakers prepare to start drafting fiscal 2026 appropriations bills. All earmarks were excluded from the continuing resolution that’s funding the government through Sept. 30.

Cole’s guidance continues recent restrictions on projects imposed by conservatives. Funding ...

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