Adopt the Senate guardrails to force compliance with spending bills.

I am asking you to adopt the Senate guardrails in the House spending bills now. Write the directions into statutory text so agencies must follow them. Require advance reporting to Congress before any grant or contract is terminated. Set clear deadlines for obligating awarded funds and publish obligation dashboards so the public can see progress. Prohibit silent slow walks that starve projects without a formal decision. These steps must be included in the next appropriations package and protected against any effort to strip them out. The Senate Appropriations leaders from both parties are already moving in this direction by shifting detailed tables and instructions from nonbinding reports into the bills themselves and by adding new reporting requirements when agencies try to cut grants, contracts, or workforce. That is the correct model for the House to adopt and strengthen. It turns guidance into enforceable law. The costs of inaction are concrete. Up to 4.7 billion in competitive awards are being clawed back, including about 2.4 billion from Neighborhood Access and Equity and nearly 750 million for trails, walking, and biking. These were life-saving projects to reconnect communities, improve safety, and expand access to jobs. The House can protect what remains and rebuild what was taken by putting binding directions in law and enforcing them. Adopt the Senate guardrails in the House spending bills and make the administration spend funds as written.