E&E DAILY | Congressional appropriators and advocacy groups are jockeying for last-minute changes to the White House’s sprawling $115 billion disaster aid request as negotiators prepare to release text for the supplemental funding bill in the coming days.

The fight over what kinds of programs should receive plus-ups in the year-end disaster legislation — and which programs shouldn’t — comes days after President Joe Biden expanded his original $99 billion request and as lawmakers continue parallel negotiations around a stopgap measure to kick government funding into early next year…

The group Taxpayers for Common Sense, which advocates for responsible spending, is arguing that the White House’s request has become bloated with non-urgent needs, like an ask for $733 million for the construction of three NOAA “hurricane hunter” aircraft that will not be needed until 2030.