Congress unveiled four new spending bills Tuesday, proposing tens of billions of dollars for a host of energy and environment programs — and slashing funding for some others.
The final tranche of fiscal 2026 appropriations measures — Defense, Homeland Security, Labor-HHS-Education and Transportation-HUD — comes as lawmakers are racing to wrap up the government funding process ahead of the Jan. 30 deadline.
The bipartisan spending bills are the result of months of negotiations and represent a compromise between Republicans and Democrats.
GOP appropriators succeeded in repurposing funds intended for electric vehicle chargers, for example, while Democrats secured new oversight provisions to check the Trump administration’s unilateral cuts to disaster mitigation grants.
