House Moves to Ramp Up Equal Employment Enforcement Funding (2)

The House passed a spending package that would increase spending for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and several other agencies, rankling the Trump administration.

The $320 billion minibus spending legislation (H.R. 3055), passed June 25 on a 227-194 vote, would boost EEOC spending in fiscal year 2020 to $400 million. That’s a $20 million bump from the previous year. The measure also would increase spending compared with fiscal year 2019 for nearly all agencies covered by the bill, including the Agriculture, Commerce, and Justice departments.

The vote came less than a week after the House passed a separate ...