Sponsor
Robert Aderholt
Representative · R-AL
Representative · R-AL
Official title: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
Introduced September 11, 2025 by Robert Aderholt
This bill strengthens oversight, evaluation, and some program efficiencies while imposing many funding and regulatory prohibitions that reduce agencies' flexibility and roll back several recent protections—trading increased fiscal and procedural control for reduced program funding, regulatory authority, and protections for vulnerable populations.
Federal programs and grants will face stronger evaluation and transparency requirements (centralized evaluation funds, quarterly reporting, grantee funding-disclosure, ACA/Exchange reporting), increasing oversight of how taxpayer dollars are spent.
Agencies can carry forward unspent prior-year balances and use limited internal transfer authority, enabling continuity of multi-year projects and modest within-agency reallocation for priorities or emergencies.
Procurement using DOL funds will be barred for goods/services produced with forced or indentured child labor in listed industries/countries, reducing U.S. government support for abusive supply chains.
The bill broadly prohibits implementing or funding many recently issued agency rules and executive actions (across DOL, HHS, DOE, and various EOs), which would roll back worker protections, civil-rights and child protections, and climate/equity initiatives.
Multiple provisions ban or limit federal funding for abortion-related services and coverage across programs, reducing access to reproductive health care for people served by affected federal programs.
Large rescissions and specified transfers (including rescinding billions from contingency and other funds) plus restrictions on trust-fund uses reduce available funding and create uncertainty for grantees and service providers.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Provides FY2026 appropriations for Labor, HHS, Education, and national service with numerous limits on transfers, grantee salary caps, program conditions (e.g., Title X rules), procurement bans, and CNCS/AmeriCorps rule changes.
Provides fiscal year appropriations and policy conditions for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and for the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps), with limits on transfers, salary caps for grantees, procurement and grant-use restrictions, and program-specific policy riders. It sets administrative authorities for limited intra-agency transfers, bars use of funds for certain activities (including some health program operations and advocacy), adds compliance and reporting requirements, and imposes programmatic conditions (for example Title X requirements and changes to national service rules).