APPROPRIATIONS NEWS AND STATUS CHART

FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2025 APPROPRIATIONS UPDATES:

Click on the 12 subcommittee pages on the red navigation bar, above, for bill language, report and joint statement language, GOP and DEM summaries, and earmarks.

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

New Appropriations Committee (Democrats) Database Tracking Nearly a Half Trillion Dollars in Funds Frozen, Blocked, or Delayed by the Trump Administration–in many cases illegally

New – For news on the President’s FY 2026 requests for discretionary appropriations, see our President’s budget webpage:  https://govbudget.com/presidents-budget-news/

New – For news on the President’s proposed rescission bill, see our rescission webpage:  https://appropriations.com/rescission-proposals-from-white-house/.

House Appropriations Hearings and Markups Schedule:  

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

Tues, May 6, 2025:
Bipartisan House and Senate Leaders Urge White House to Restore Spending Website. In the latest chapter in a battle over spending powers, lawmakers charged that the administration removed crucial information in violation of the law. The White House argues the data shouldn’t be public. – NYT

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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