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, Sept 12, 2025:
- ‘Don’t even bother dealing with them,’ Trump says of Democrats’ shutdown demands. The president weighed in after top Democratic leaders sketched out ultimatums on health care. – Politico
- White House rescission strategy worries some GOP appropriators. Tactic could be a double-edged sword if a Democrat is president. – Roll Call
Thurs, Sept 11, 2025:
- Today, the House voted to conference with the Senate on 3 bills: Ag-Rural-FDA; Leg. Br.; and MilCon-VA. HOUSE GOP CONFEREES HOUSE DEM CONFEREES
- Republicans Eye Government Funding Punt to Nov. 21. – Politico
- Schumer, Jeffries Demand Major Health Care Concessions to Keep Government Funded.
- Murray, Gillibrand call on HUD IG to look into Trump Administration’s failure to award homeless assistance funding.
Wed, Sept 10, 2025:
- House full committee approved Commerce-Justice-Science 34-28: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | Earmarks | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Adopted Amendments | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- What the CR timing dispute is really about – Politico
- House GOP Appropriations Chair Cole seeks a conference with the Senate on 3 bills–MilCon-VA, Ag-Rural-FDA, and Legislative Branch bills.
- Senate Democratic Leader Schumer said Wednesday regarding CR developments: “What the Republicans have proposed is not good enough to meet the needs of the American people and not good enough to get our votes.”
- American Public Health Assoc. statement on House L-HHS-Ed bill
Tues, Sept 9, 2025:
- House full committee approved Labor-HHS-Ed 35-28: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Adopted Amendments | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily lifted a lower court’s order finding that President Trump’s “pocket rescission” of $4 billion in foreign aid funds was illegal—allowing Trump to continue withholding the funds, even though insufficient time remains for Congress to consider whether to allow the proposed rescission. Roberts’ action contravenes a longstanding legal precedent established by the Comptroller General that rescissions may not be proposed by the President if less than 45 days remains in the fiscal year for Congress to vote on whether to approve the rescission (under procedures laid out by the Impoundment Control Act).
- This is part of a larger, and highly consequential, effort by the Trump Administration to vastly expand the President’s authority to impound congressionally appropriated funds. Under current law, Presidents must obligate appropriated funds unless Congress approves a rescission of specific funds. The drafters of the Constitution were very clear in their conviction that Congress’s power of the purse was the best defense against an authoritarian leader.
- If Congress decides to advance a continuing resolution (“CR”) to keep the government operating when FY 2026 begins on October 1st, it would presumably fund all programs, projects, and activities at FY 2025 levels. However, CR’s typically include a list of so-called “anomalies,” or exceptions, where certain programs are funded at different levels. Today, President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget sent congressional appropriators a list of anomalies for a FY 2026 CR in case Congress decides to enact a stopgap measure. Click here for the White House list of anomalies obtained by Politico.
- Ranking Member DeLauro’s statement on Trump request for 4-month CR
Mon, Sept 8, 2025:
- Congress splinters into unlikely factions over looming government shutdown. Lawmakers and the Trump administration are debating different scenarios to avoid a lapse in federal funding but consensus remains elusive. – Politico
- Democratic appropriators updated their list of FY 2025 funding currently being blocked by the White House budget office (OMB), which they say amounts to $410 billion. “We are now nine months into the year-and weeks away from the end of the fiscal year-and President Trump and Russ Vought continue to withhold hundreds of billions of dollars from families, farmers, children, small businesses, and communities in every part of the country,” Murray and De Lauro said in a joint statement.
- The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court order against OMB’s attempted “pocket” rescission of $4 billion in foreign aid funds. (A pocket rescission is the withholding of funding close to the end of a fiscal year, without leaving Congress sufficient time to reject the proposed rescission and restore the funding before the fiscal year ends.)
Thurs, Sept 4, 2025:
- House passed Energy-Water 214-213: Text | Rpt | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Amendment Action | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet | EERE
- GOP lurches toward shutdown as Democrats vow they won’t be rolled – Hill
Wed, Sept 3, 2025:
- House Approps full committee approves Financial Services bill 35-28: Text | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | Adopted Amendments | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- Senate Approps Ranking Democrat Murray remarks on an FY 2026 short-term CR
- Vought defends ‘aggressively’ using rescissions, blasts GAO as ‘something that shouldn’t exist’ – Politico
Tues, Sept 2, 2025:
- House Labor-HHS-Ed subcommittee approved its bill: Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
- House bill cuts HHS budget but excludes RFK Jr.’s reorganization, maintains NIH funding – Stat
- Johnson and Jeffries discussed the possibility of a shutdown-avoiding stopgap into November or December. – Politico
- Cole calls for short-term CR into November – Hill
Fri, Aug 29, 2025:
- Senate Approps Chair Susan Collins statement on receipt of “unlawful” $4.9 billion rescission proposal from OMB
- Senate Approps Ranking Member Patty Murray statement on receipt of “illegal” $4.9 billion rescission request from OMB
- House Fact Sheet on Pocket Rescissions
Thurs, Aug 21, 2025:
The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday. – AP
The court split 5-4 on the decision. Chief Justice John Roberts was among those who wouldn’t have allowed the cuts, along with the court’s three liberals. The high court did keep the Trump administration’s anti-DEI directive blocked for future funding with a key vote from Justice Amy Coney Barrett, however.
Mon, Aug 18, 2025:
Earmarks (now called “community project funding,” long shunned by deficit conservatives, is back on the menu of options to avoid a government shutdown in September. – Politico
Republican civil war erupts over earmarks in funding bills – The Hill
Senator Murray on Partial Restoration of Spending Transparency Website After Court Orders Trump, Vought to Stop Breaking the Law to Hide Their Tracks – Approps/Murray
Wed, Aug 13, 2025:
Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Aid, Appeals Court Rules. In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze lacked standing under the Impoundment Control Act. – NYT
Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship. The politically ambitious Connecticut Democrat is walking away from bipartisan government funding negotiations as his party clamors for a seat at the table. – Politico
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
See Chron for actions prior to the above date.
APPROPRIATIONS STATUS CHART:
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“Sub” = subcommittee markup | “Full” = full committee markup
“FL” = floor action | “MB” = minibus
*In the 119th Congress, House Appropriations has renamed State-Foreign Ops: National Security-State.