Sponsor
Rosa L. Delauro
Representative · D-CT
Representative · D-CT
The bill keeps many health, nutrition, housing, and federal operations running in the near term—protecting beneficiaries, providers, and federal employees—but it does so by freezing FY2025 funding levels, using emergency/apportionment flexibilities and short‑term patchwork funding that reduce congressional control, fiscal transparency, and room for inflationary or new priorities.
Millions of low‑income Americans and beneficiaries (Medicaid recipients, SNAP/WIC participants, community health center patients, diabetes program enrollees, and veterans needing supportive services) keep receiving benefits and services because the bill continues FY2025 funding levels and directs short‑term appropriations to nutrition, health centers, diabetes programs, veteran supportive services
Federal civilian employees and ongoing federal operations (including FEMA disaster response, wildland fire suppression, and certain research programs) avoid furloughs or disruptions because agencies may apportion personnel pay and essential program funding to the rates needed to maintain operations
Renters and people served by homelessness programs are protected from abrupt loss of housing supports because HUD tenant shortfalls can be covered with FY2026 funds and Continuum of Care/youth homelessness projects get a 12‑month noncompetitive renewal to avoid service gaps
Millions of Americans indirectly lose some congressional prioritization and oversight because continuing appropriations, apportionment waivers, and emergency designations shift many new‑start and spending decisions from the annual appropriations process to agencies and Treasury
The bill increases near‑term federal outlays and reduces fiscal transparency because numerous short‑term/one‑month appropriations and emergency designations are not scored on usual PAYGO and budget allocation scorecards
Keeping programs at FY2025 funding rates freezes growth and prevents automatic adjustments for inflation or new priorities, potentially harming state/local partners, hospitals, and agencies that need higher funding to meet rising costs
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Provides one-month continuing appropriations at FY2025 levels through Oct 2025, with targeted October 2025 supplemental public‑health funding, a VA Native American veteran housing loan subsidy account, emergency designations, and technical spending rules.
Official title: Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Introduced September 18, 2025 by Rosa L. Delauro · Last progress September 18, 2025
Provides one-month continuing appropriations and related adjustments to keep the federal government operating at FY2025 funding levels through October 2025, with targeted one-month supplemental funding for several public health programs, special rules for Department of Defense spending under the continuing resolution, emergency designations for specified accounts, and a few program-specific actions (including a new VA direct-loan subsidy account for Native American veteran housing and temporary HUD and homelessness rule changes). It also includes technical rules about how the temporary funds operate, rescinds and re-appropriates certain unobligated balances to complete specific awards, and extends several program expiration dates by one month.