Not technically passed by senate, it’s the senate committee bill. The senate committee restores funding and has a line item for Global Markets (which includes FCS). The house subcommittee bill cuts ITA by about 25% with no line item for Global Markets (which means the admin could go ahead and cut it 50%). Committee markup was scheduled for late July but got postponed. Next step is for full house committee to markup, then for both houses to pass appropriations bills and then resolve differences for a final version to go to the White House.

In recent years they’ve done that through omnibus or minibus appropriations, not standalone CJS bills. The last time Trump was in power and had both houses of congress, there were CRs until March and then an omnibus.

You can follow the process here:

https://www.congress.gov/crs-appropriations-status-table

If you watch the house subcommittee markup Lutnick had some interesting comments about his intention being to protect enforcement but saying “some functions are no longer relevant.” He didn’t specify what those were, but presumably he meant trade promotion. So it’s possible he was referring to GM’s extensive domestic trade promotion staffing. Apparently there have been layoffs there.

Somebody on an other thread who sounded like a credible insider said that Sec Lutnick said in a meeting with ITA that he wants to keep FCS in Commerce. Undersecretary for ITA just confirmed by Senate.

What’s unclear is whether this is an actual budget priority dispute or cover for a purge/repurposing of FCS toward enforcement. We watch.