The Senate Appropriations Committee plans to release and advance its fiscal 2026 Interior-Environment spending bill Thursday with likely cuts.
The committee also plans to release its Transportation-Housing and Urban Development bill. And the full Senate may begin debate on its first fiscal 2026 bill package of the year.
It’s another busy week for appropriators as they try to advance as many of their bills as possible before the coming August recess. Even with the burst in activity, the House and Senate are unlikely to finish their work before the fiscal year ends, meaning a stopgap is all but necessary to prevent a shutdown.
“We got our work to do,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Interior-EPA Appropriations Subcommittee, last week when discussing this year’s spending deliberations.
