House and Senate appropriators on Tuesday morning released their forth and final tranche of spending bills, as lawmakers race to finalize their fiscal 2026 work before the Jan. 30 funding deadline.
Appropriators have been negotiating the Defense, Homeland Security, Labor-HHS-Education and Transportation-HUD bills for months.
Leaders hope to pass the package in the House this week before members leave for a scheduled recess. The Senate would likely follow next week, potentially combining the bills with two other House-passed spending measures.
“Our goal is to get all of these bills signed into law,” Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said last week. “No continuing resolutions that lock in previous priorities and don’t reflect today’s realities. No more disastrous government shutdowns that are totally unnecessary and so harmful.”
