Reconciliation Advocacy Center

WHERE WE ARE NOW 
(Week of June 9)

The House and Senate have agreed to a general top-line budget while the reconciliation work has moved to the congressional standing committees. Each congressional standing committee will be responsible for identifying spending cuts or changes to programs under its jurisdiction. 

House of Representatives

• After months of negotiations, the House narrowly passed its version of a budget reconciliation bill on May 22 by a vote of 215 to 214. While a handful of technical revisions were made during the bill’s path from committee to floor, the sweeping changes to higher education policy were left almost entirely intact.  On May 20, NAICU sent a sign-on letter to Congressional leadership expressing its concerns about several proposed policies in the House reconciliation proposal.
• The Committee on Education & Workforce voted on April 29 to advance legislation proposing over $350 billion in cuts in federal higher education programs.
• The Committee on Ways & Means voted on May 14 to advance legislation that, among other things, preserves nearly all the student and family higher education benefits that had been under consideration for elimination and expands IRC Sec. 127 yet also increases the marginal rates on institutions eligible to pay the endowment tax. 

Senate

• NAICU expects to see legislative text introduced this week by the Senate, with potential consideration by the full Senate either the week of June 16 or June 23.
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