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Introduced September 12, 2025 by Harold Dallas Rogers
Provides fiscal year 2026 funding authorities and limits for the Departments of Commerce and Justice and for many other agencies (including NASA, NSF, NOAA and others), while attaching extensive policy riders that restrict how funds may be used, transfer and reporting rules, program conditions, and many specific prohibitions on agency actions and programs. It combines routine appropriations language (availability, transfer authorities, reimbursements, reporting, program cost controls) with large numbers of policy restrictions on topics such as abortion funding, diversity/equity/inclusion programs, climate and certain research programs, immigration legal costs, China-related cooperation, firearms rules, NOAA fisheries actions, and numerous regulatory actions and agency practices. Imposes many new oversight, notification, and audit requirements (quarterly and ad hoc reporting to Appropriations Committees and IGs), sets reprogramming and transfer limits, prescribes specific program cost and contract certification thresholds, rescinds specified unobligated balances, and directs or bars numerous specific program activities and rule implementations across multiple agencies. The result is a complex FY2026 funding package that couples appropriations mechanics with far-reaching policy restrictions affecting federal agencies, grantees, scientists, law enforcement, and state/local partners.
The bill increases fiscal transparency, tighter spending controls, and certain civil‑liberty protections while also imposing substantial funding cuts and ideological restrictions that shrink research, reproductive and environmental programs, and add compliance burdens for agencies and grant recipients.
Taxpayers and Congress get clearer visibility into federal spending because agencies (Commerce, DOJ, NSF, NASA, NOAA) must provide account-level balance reports, life-cycle cost estimates, quarterly reports, and publish IG audit results.
Federal programs gain stronger fiscal controls and safeguards because the bill caps reprogramming/transfer authorities, requires notifications and reporting, dedicates a portion of grants to DOJ OIG oversight, and requires certifications before large IT obligations.
Federal national-security and supply-chain protections are strengthened because agencies must perform supply‑chain risk reviews and involve FBI/NIST before acquiring high/moderate impact systems, and funding ties to specified foreign-controlled/adversary labs are blocked.
Federal programs and services face reduced resources because the bill rescinds substantial unobligated balances (including over $636 million from DOJ and $61.1 million from Commerce) and imposes new funding restrictions.
Pregnant people and organizations that provide reproductive services lose access to funding and federal enforcement support because the bill bars most abortion-related uses of DOJ funds, limits DOJ actions challenging state abortion restrictions, and blocks certain EEOC actions related to abortion.
Scientists, coastal communities, and species protections are weakened because the bill cuts or restricts climate, clean energy, fisheries, and coastal management programs and limits tools like vessel speed restrictions and critical habitat designations.