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Senate HELP budget fight could pinch health plan, retirement plan regulators

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is supposed to find $1 billion in spending cuts and revenue increases.

By Allison Bell | February 10, 2025 at 01:58 PM
The U.S. Capitol rotunda. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM

Senators who want to make workers’ preventive health tax breaks more generous or U.S. Labor Department compliance programs more aggressive may have to wrestle with other senators for room in the federal budget.

The Senate Budget Committee leaders told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that it should find some combination of spending cuts and revenue increases that will reduce the federal budget deficit by at least $1 billion over the 10-year period from 2025 through 2024.

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