FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2025 APPROPRIATIONS UPDATES:
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Recent Appropriation Actions and News (see Chron for news archives):
STATUS OF FY 2025 FUNDING BILLS: On March 14, 2025, Congress completed action on a 3rd continuing resolution (HR 1968) funding the government through September 30, 2025 at FY 2024 funding levels, with specified exceptions, bypassing the 12 regular appropriations bills and ceding considerable authority to the Executive Branch. Senate GOP Stmt | Senate Approps Dem Stmt | Sen Schumer Stmt | DeLauro Stmt | Section-by-Section
Link HERE to appropriations records back to FY 1984
Fri, Aug 8, 2025:
Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers – AP
- The order requires all federal agencies, including FEMA, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, to appoint officials responsible for reviewing federal funding opportunities and grants, so that they “are consistent with agency priorities and the national interest.”
- It also requires agencies to make it so that current and future federal grants can be terminated at any time — including during the grant period itself.
- Agencies cannot announce new funding opportunities until the new protocols are in place, according to the order.
- The Trump administration said these changes are part of an effort to “strengthen oversight” and “streamline agency grantmaking.” Scientists say the order will cripple America’s scientific engine by placing control over federal research funds in the hands of people who are influenced by politics and lack relevant expertise.
Tues, Aug 5, 2025:
Trump and Schumer couldn’t clinch a deal. Now a shutdown hangs in the balance. Ahead of a critical spending showdown, the two leaders’ relationship is almost nonexistent. – Politico
Mon, Aug 4, 2025:
Congress is on summer break. Funding ‘chaos’ awaits. With eight weeks until the government shutdown deadline, competing factions of lawmakers are starting to define their ultimatums. – Politico
August recess can’t hide tensions ahead for Congress on spending – AP
Fri, Aug 1, 2025:
- Senate passed MilCon-VA and Ag-Rural-FDA bills in a bipartisan package 87-9:
- Senate passed Legislative Branch bill 81-15: Text (before amendments) | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt
Thurs, July 31, 2025:
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved Defense Bill 26-3: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved Labor-HHS-Education Bill 26-3: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- Senate leaders eyeing 3- or 4-bill minibus – Punchbowl
Thurs, July 24, 2025:
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved Transportation-HUD Bill 27-1: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved Interior-Environment Bill 26-2: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | D-Summ | D-Stmt
Wed, July 23, 2025:
- Senate voted to begin consideration of the MilCon-VA Bill 90-8: Text | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- House Approps Comm. approved Nat. Sec.-State bill 35-27: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | Amendments | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Tues, July 22, 2025:
- Senate voted to invoke cloture (preventing a filibuster) on the motion to begin consideration of the MilCon-VA Bill 91-7: Text | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- House Approps Comm. approved Interior-Environment bill bill 33-28: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | Amendments | Earmarks | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Mon, July 21, 2025:
- House Financial Services-General Government subcommittee approved its bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- Thune seeks to kick off appropriations on Senate floor. Democrats concerned about further rescissions. – Roll Call
Sun, July 20, 2025:
- House Approps releases Financial Services bill: Text | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet | Monday subcomm. markup webcast
Fri, July 18, 2025:
- House passed Defense bill 221-209: Text | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- Senate GOP pushes spending bills as Democratic anger builds. Schumer “furious” at Vought for seeking “less bipartisan” appropriations process – Roll Call
- Senator Murray Demands All Remaining Education Funds Blocked By Trump Get Released Immediately. Trump relents, finally releasing a fraction of withheld education funds while continuing to block $5.5 billion more.
- House sends $9 billion rescissions package to president’s desk – Roll Call
Thurs, July 17, 2025:
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved Commerce-Justice-Science Bill 19-10: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved MilCon-VA Bill 26-3: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved Transportation-HUD 35-28: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | R-Summ | R-Stmt |Amendment Action | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved Energy-Water 35-27: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Amendment Action | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet | EERE
- Senate GOP prepares to move first funding package – Politico
- On the Fast Track Toward a Government Shutdown – Bulwark
- Senate passes $9B in cuts to global aid, public broadcasting in win for Trump – The Hill
- White House Says ‘More Partisan’ Spending Bills Are Better – Bloomberg
- Senate Republicans salvage FBI funding bill after bypassing Trump rebuke – Politico
- Russ Vought: Appropriations process ‘has to be less bipartisan’ – Politico
- Senate sends $9 billion rescissions package to the House. Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were only Republicans to vote no. – Roll Call
- Senate approves cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid programs – NPR
- Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say – CNN
Wed, July 16, 2025:
Senate & House Education Leaders Statement on Trump Admin Illegally Moving Department of Education Programs to DOL as Part of Its Efforts to Dismantle the Department – Approps Ds
Tues, July 15 2025:
- House Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee approved its bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House Nat. Sec.-State subcommittee approved its bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House Interior-Environment subcommittee approved its bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- Chairman Cole releases updated 302b subcommittee allocations
- GOP spending bills run into intraparty friction in House. Appropriations Committee won’t meet its target of marking up all dozen bills before recess, chairman says – Roll Call
- Trump’s proposed NOAA cuts meet Senate appropriators’ opposition. Concerns about the National Weather Service expressed on both sides of the aisle – Roll Call
Mon, July 14, 2025:
- House Energy-Water Subcomm. approved its FY26 bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet | EERE
- House Transportation-HUD Subcomm. approved its FY26 bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet.
- House Republicans Aim to Eliminate Thousands of Federal Law Enforcement Agents and Analysts
Fri, July 11, 2025:
With Predictions of Above-Average Hurricane Season, DeLauro, Meng, Underwood Demand End to Unlawful Funding Freezes and Award Cancellations – Approps Ds
Thurs, July 10, 2025:
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved Agriculture-Rural-FDA Bill 27-0: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- Senate Appropriations Full Committee approved Legislative Branch Bill 26-1: Text | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt
- Senate Appropriators advance Legislative Branch bill without GAO cuts. Measure would maintain Library of Congress funding and boost Capitol Police. – Roll Call
- FBI headquarters fight stymies spending bill in Senate. After amendment splits parties on bill, no clear path forward for overall spending measure. – Roll Call
- GOP cuts trigger Democratic warnings on government shutdowns – Axios
Tues, July 8, 2025:
Kaptur, Murray Statement on DOE Failure to Comply with Basic Spending Transparency Requirements As Highlighted in New GAO Report – Approps Ds
Mon, July 7, 2025:
DeLauro, Wasserman Schultz Slam Trump Plan to Cut 30,000 Veterans Affairs Employees – Approps Ds
Wed, July 2, 2025:
Kaptur, Murray Blast Energy Department’s Decision to Steer Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Away from Wind, Solar to Favored Industries — In Defiance of Bipartisan Spending Bill – Approps Ds
President Trump Illegally Steals from Public Schools Across the Country – Approps Ds
Tues, July 1, 2025:
Senator Murray Calls on Trump Admin to Immediately Release Billions in Funds K-12 Schools Across America are Counting On – Approps Ds
Thurs, June 26, 2025:
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved Legislative Branch 34-28: Text before amendments | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House appropriators approve Leg Branch bill with GAO cuts – Roll Call
Wed, June 25, 2025:
- House passes MilCon-VA bill 218-206: Text | Rpt | Summary | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Tues, June 24, 2025:
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved Homeland Security 36-27: Text before amendments | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Mon, June 23, 2025:
GAO is targeted by House Republicans in new spending bill. The Legislative Branch appropriations subcommittee aims to cut Congress’ own budget by $51 million. – Politico
Lawmakers to Bondi: DOJ funding cuts threaten national security – Politico
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved Ag-Rural-FDA 35-27: Text before amendments | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House Legislative Branch Subcomm. approved its FY26 bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Sun, June 22, 2025:
What Remains of U.S.A.I.D.? The few hundred programs that survived DOGE’s purge reveal the future of foreign aid. – NYT
Fri, June 20, 2025:
OMB Director Russell Vought’s latest plan to attack Congress’ appropriations authority is the “pocket rescission.” Under the 1974 Impoundment Control Act (ICA), when the President sends a rescission proposal to Congress, the funds are withheld for 45 days while Congress considers the proposal, but funds must be released if Congress does not enact the rescission. Vought is intending to send rescissions to Congress within 45 days of the end of the fiscal year, so that the funds are wittheld until September 30th, the last day of the fiscal year. Vought calls this a “pocket rescission,” but it is clearly an end run around the requirements of the Impoundment Control Act. In 2018, the Government Accountability Office, ruled that “the ICA does not permit budget authority proposed for rescission to be withheld until its expiration simply because the 45-day period has not yet elapsed. A withholding of this nature would be an aversion both to the constitutional process for enacting federal law and to Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, for the President would preclude the obligation of budget authority Congress has already enacted and did not rescind. ”
Thurs, June 12, 2025:
- House narrowly passed (214-212) on Thursday H.R. 4, the Trump Administration’s $9.4 Billion Rescission Bill to cancel $9.4 billion in spending authority–$8.3 billion in foreign aid and $1.1 billion for public broadcasting. Four Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing the bill. The measure now moves to the Senate where passage of the special budget measure requires only 50 votes.
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved Defense 36-27: Text before amendments | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House Appropriations Full Committee Delayed Completion of its Agriculture-Rural-FDA markup.
- The appropriations process is already a mess – Punchbowl
Wed, June 11, 2025:
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved MilCon-VA 36-27: Text before amendments | Amendment Action | Rpt | Summary | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House Appropriations Full Committee approved preliminary subcommittee allocations 35-28: Rpt | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Tues, June 10, 2025:
- House Defense Subcomm. approved its FY26 bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet.
Mon, June 9, 2025:
- House Homeland Security Subcomm. approved its FY26 bill: Text | R-Summ | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Thurs, June 5, 2025:
- House Ag-Rural-FDA Subcomm. approved its FY26 bill: Text | Summary | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House MilCon-VA Subcomm. approved its FY26 bill: Text | Summary | Earmarks | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
Wed, June 4, 2025:
‘Where’s the budget?’: GOP lawmakers implore Vought to send a full request. The OMB director appeared days after the latest White House submission left appropriators wanting. – Politico
Tues, June 3, 2025:
Trump’s Unprecedented Funding Freeze Hits Communities Across America – Approps Dems
Tues, May 27, 2025:
Letter from Ranking Members DeLauro and Murray to OMB Director Vought highlighting ongoing failures to comply with statutory budget requirements.
Sun, May 11, 2025:
The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government; Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon. – WP
At the Environmental Protection Agency, according to three employees, research at 11 laboratories has ground to a halt because of a requirement that Trump officials must approve all new lab purchases.
Fri, May 9, 2025:
Senate Dems sound alarm for Meals on Wheels funding – Axios
Thurs, May 8, 2025:
A bipartisan group of House members is drafting a sweeping bill to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency — and in some cases expand its services — in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s threats to shrink or abolish the agency. – Politico
Republicans miffed with Trump’s threats to ignore funding – Politico
A senior White House official said impounding funds is always on “the table” if Trump disagrees with Congress’ funding bills…. “I’ve got a real problem with impoundment,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who chairs the House Appropriations panel that funds the EPA and the Interior Department, told reporters this week. “That’s like a line-item veto, and I think it’s illegal,” Simpson said.
Wed, May 7, 2025:
Republicans are debating whether to move the $9 billion rescissions package now or wait. – Politico
Fri, May 2, 2025:
GOP balks at rescission bill to ratify DOGE cuts – WP
See Chron for actions prior to the above date.
APPROPRIATIONS STATUS CHART:
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*In the 119th Congress, House Appropriations has renamed State-Foreign Ops: National Security-State.