House Targets $20 Million Budget Cut and New Oversight for EEOC

The EEOC’s budget would be cut by nearly $20 million and the civil rights watchdog would need to inform Congress before taking on future reorganizations under a bipartisan House spending bill set for a vote this week.

A spending package released Monday would fund the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission through Sept. 30 at $435.4 million, down from the $455 million the agency received in fiscal year 2025.

If signed into law, the EEOC would be directed to “take no action to implement any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or reorganization until” the House and Senate appropriations committees “have been notified of ...