House Passes Energy and Water Development FY24 Spending Bill

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, the United States House of Representatives approved the Energy and Water appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2024 which authorizes spending to more than $57 billion in Energy and Water programs including the Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers water projects. This is the fifth individual appropriations bill House Republicans have passed, the Senate has failed to pick up one.

Congressman Zinke released the following statement following the passage of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act:

“If you ask any Montanan, they’ll tell you that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. This bill was written with those Montanans in frontside focus, it authorizes more than a hundred million toward rural water projects and redirects the Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers’ time away from Biden’s culture and climate wars. There’s no time for them to sit in training about CRT and DEI. They need to be taking care of business that Montanans need tended to continue their way of life.”

Topline Points:

Read the bill text summary here.

Water

• Maintains House Republicans commitment to private property by terminating Waters of the United States
• Fully Funds the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act activities at $210.2 million to help our 353 state dams and allocates $132.8 million
• Allocates $132.8 million for rural water projects

Energy

• Authorizes $23.9 billion for National Nuclear Security
• Prohibits Department of Energy from issuing onerous energy conservation standards.
• Authorizes $19.1 billion for modernization of the nation’s Nuclear Stockpile

Conservative Principles

• Prohibits the use of funds to promote Critical Race Theory
• Eliminates unrelated climate change activities in the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, including electric vehicles and climate cops
• Rescinds 5.58 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act

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