Top appropriators released bill text Monday morning of a ⭐️three-bill funding package leaders in both chambers aim to pass ahead of the Jan. 30 government shutdown deadline.
The legislation would fund the departments of Energy, Commerce, Interior and Justice,
-- as well as water programs, the EPA and federal science initiatives through the Sept. 30 end of the current fiscal year.
The compromise is the product of negotiations between House and Senate appropriators following a deal last month on overall totals.
GOP leaders are making plans to shore up votes and put the package on the House floor #Thursday, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.
⚠️Besides those bills, Congress still has six other funding measures to wrap up for fiscal 2026,
after enacting three within the stopgap that ended the government shutdown in November.
That trio slated funding through September for the departments of Veterans Affairs and Agriculture, -- along with military construction projects, the Food and Drug Administration and operations of Congress.
💥The remaining bills include the two largest funding measures,
which cover the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor and Education.
But barring another breakthrough in the next few weeks, those politically thorny measures are likely to be funded under another #stopgap for a few more weeks or months,
along with bills that cover funding for the IRS and the departments of Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development
