Negotiators in both chambers of Congress have reached an agreement to fund every federal agency in fiscal 2026, with appropriators announcing a final deal on Tuesday, giving lawmakers 10 days to get the remaining bills to President Trump’s desk before a shutdown would occur.
The Senate last week passed a second “minibus” package of spending bills, sending the measure to Trump to clear out half of the 12 annual must-pass appropriations bills. The House has already passed a third package—funding the departments of State and Treasury, and other governmentwide oversight agencies—and the Senate is expected to pass it next week.
Lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled the fourth and final minibus, which would fund the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Homeland Security, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Those agencies, as well as State and Treasury, are currently funded through a stopgap continuing resolution that is set to expire after Jan. 30.
The new package marks yet another breakthrough between Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate. The key agencies of the bill would be funded at the following levels:
- Defense: $838.7 billion, a less than 1% increase
- HHS (not including the Food and Drug Administration): $116.8 billion, a less than 1% decrease
- Education: $79 billion, essentially flat funded
- HUD: $77.3 billion
- DHS: $64.4 billion, a 1% decrease
- Transportation: $25.1 billion, a less than 1% decrease
- Social Security Administration: $12.3 billion, essentially flat funded
- Labor: $13.7 billion, a 1% increase
Like the other three spending packages, the measure largely rejects the drastic funding cuts Trump and House Republicans had sought. Most agencies and programs avoided receiving anything other than a minor haircut.
“This latest funding package continues Congress’s forceful rejection of extreme cuts to federal programs proposed by the Trump administration,” said House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. “Where the White House attempted to eliminate entire programs, we chose to increase their funding. Where the administration proposed slashing resources, we chose to sustain funding at current levels.”
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly called it critical to pass full-year appropriations bills to avoid ceding power to the Trump administration in making funding choices. Agencies operated under a full-year CR in fiscal 2025, providing more flexibility to the White House.
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., who chairs the House spending panel, said the package demonstrated that lawmakers could still work together to get important work done.
“At a time when many believed completing the FY26 process was out of reach, we’ve shown that challenges are opportunities,” Cole said. “It’s time to get it across the finish line.”
The House is expected to approve the measure this week. The Senate would then take it up next week, when it returns from recess. Lawmakers will have to pass the bill and Trump would then have to sign it into law by Jan. 30 to avoid the second shutdown of the fiscal year.
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