Sponsor
Shelley Moore Capito
Senator · R-WV
Senator · R-WV
The bill increases federal transparency, evaluation capacity, and targeted education and research supports while imposing tight fiscal controls, rescissions, and health/funding restrictions that reduce agency flexibility and limit access to certain health and social services.
Taxpayers and Congress get stronger oversight, transparency, and evaluation funding for federal programs through new reporting requirements, reserved evaluation funds, and notice/reporting rules for transfers and staffing.
Federal programs can preserve continuity by reallocating limited small shares and unspent prior‑year balances to current accounts or using small transfer authorities for program evaluations/technical assistance, reducing lapses and interruptions.
Students and schools gain targeted education and student-aid support: faster prompt awarding of formula grants, limited endowment income use for scholarships, additional IES funding for education research, and outreach funding to connect some borrowers with loan relief.
People served by federally funded programs — including minors — and family-planning providers face reduced access to abortion-related care and confidential services because the bill restricts federal funding for most abortions and conditions Title X funding on new counseling/parental-involvement requirements.
Agencies’ ability to shift funds to respond to emergencies or changing needs is substantially constrained by low transfer caps, prior‑notice requirements, strict reprogramming limits and rescissions, increasing the risk that services will be delayed or underfunded when priorities change.
Rescissions and directed cuts (e.g., ICE funds, Dislocated Workers Reserve, DOE nonrecurring balances, IES) reduce available resources for immigration enforcement, dislocated-worker responses, education research, and other planned activities, potentially cutting services or delaying work.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Sets FY2026 funding rules and policy conditions for Labor, HHS, Education, and AmeriCorps—limiting transfers and salaries, adding program conditions (Title X, Medicare Advantage), procurement bans for child‑labor goods, and grant transparency requirements.
Official title: An original bill 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 July 31, 2025 by Shelley Moore Capito · Last progress July 31, 2025
Provides FY2026 appropriations controls and program rules for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and for the Corporation for National and Community Service. It imposes funding limits, transfer rules, salary caps tied to the Executive Schedule Level II, procurement restrictions (including banned goods made with forced child labor), program-specific conditions (including Title X family-participation and reporting rules and limitations on Medicare Advantage participation), and administrative directions for grantmaking, transfers, and evaluation funding. Also includes policy riders affecting K–12 and higher education (including a ban on preventing voluntary school prayer and rules on endowment use), changes to AmeriCorps grant and award rules, public disclosure requirements for federal grant shares, limits on abortion-related spending, and several technical and procedural appropriation controls (availability periods, transfer authorities, and anti‑lobbying prohibitions).