The House on Wednesday passed the fiscal 2027 State Department spending bill shortly after rejecting an amendment that reignited Democratic fissures over Israel.
In a mostly party-line 217-209 vote, the House passed the $47.3 billion National Security-State appropriations bill. That vote came on the heels of a vote earlier in the afternoon against an amendment from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to cut off U.S. aid to Israel.
Passage of the bill also officially merged it with voter ID legislation that became the focus of a standoff among Republicans that recently paralyzed the House floor. While the inclusion of the voting bill unlocked the spending bill in the House, it complicates the measure’s path forward in the Senate.
Overall, the spending bill’s $47.3 billion for the State Department and other related agencies would represent a decrease of about $2.7 billion from the fiscal 2026 enacted level. But it would be about $11.7 billion more than what the Trump administration requested for fiscal 2027.
Democrats have largely opposed the funding bill because of the cuts, which include a $902 million year-over-year drop in funding for global health, humanitarian and other economic assistance programs.
