Sponsor
Tom Cole
Representative · R-OK
Representative · R-OK
The bill funds a wide range of government, defense, veterans, health, and infrastructure programs to avoid service disruptions and maintain near‑term public safety and benefits, but does so with sizable supplemental spending, short-term extensions, expanded waiver authorities, and reduced fiscal/oversight constraints that raise deficit risk and limit long‑term certainty and congressional control.
Federal agencies and federal employees avoid an immediate shutdown because the bill provides full-year FY2025 funding authority, maintaining core government services and payrolls.
Service members, deployed forces, and broader defense capabilities receive sustained funding and operational support (including CENTCOM/EUCOM transfers and FY2025 DOD account levels) to preserve readiness, procurements, and ongoing operations.
Veterans receive expanded and sustained benefit and health care funding (large FY2026 appropriations, supplements, VA Medical Services and Community Care funding, and toxic exposure fund resources) supporting claims payments and access to care.
All taxpayers face higher federal outlays and increased deficit pressure because the bill enacts large appropriations and supplemental transfers across defense, veterans, health, and other programs without fully offsetting savings.
Fiscal accountability and congressional control are weakened by PAYGO exclusions, rescissions of prior-year funds, expedited exemption/waiver authorities, and provisions that nullify prior earmarks or constraints, which can obscure costs and limit oversight.
Health providers, state and local recipients, and agencies face planning and hiring uncertainty because many measures are short‑term (six‑month extensions) or shift effective dates, reducing multi‑year certainty needed for staffing and contract decisions.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Provides FY2025 full-year appropriations, targeted DOD supplements and transfers for CENTCOM/EUCOM, sets FY2026 VA funding and supplements, and extends selected program authorities to Sept 30, 2025.
Official title: Making further continuing appropriations and other extensions for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 10, 2025 by Tom Cole · Last progress March 15, 2025
Provides full-year FY2025 appropriations and related rules, extends or temporarily funds a range of federal programs through September 30, 2025, and makes targeted supplemental appropriations and transfer authorities for defense operations and veterans’ benefits. It also amends statutory expiration dates for several temporary authorities and directs budgetary scorekeeping rules for certain divisions of the Act. Key actions include preserving FY2024 funding levels for FY2025 where specified, adding a DOD credit-program appropriation and an $8 billion transfer authority to support CENTCOM/EUCOM operations, setting detailed FY2026 budgetary levels and supplemental funding for many Veterans Affairs accounts, and extending short-term HHS program funding (Community Health Centers, National Health Service Corps, Teaching Health Centers) for April–September 2025.