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The bill keeps CISA staff paid and federal cyber defenses functioning through a funding lapse, but shifts short‑term costs to taxpayers and creates extra administrative reconciliation work for government agencies.
CISA's workforce (tech and federal cybersecurity staff) will remain operational during a lapse in appropriations because incident response and cyber defenses are preserved.
CISA employees will continue receiving regular pay and benefits during the funding gap, preventing immediate financial hardship and morale loss for those staff.
Taxpayers will temporarily cover additional out‑of‑cycle spending to fund CISA payroll during the funding gap until appropriations are finalized.
CISA and Treasury will face added administrative and bookkeeping burden because expenditures paid during the gap must later be recharged to the proper accounts, which could cause delays and complexity.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Temporarily funds CISA pay and benefits during an FY2026 lapse, forbids duplicate payments, and requires later charging to enacted appropriations; retroactive to Feb 13, 2026.
Introduced March 12, 2026 by Gary C. Peters · Last progress March 12, 2026
Provides temporary funding authority so the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) can continue to pay standard salaries, allowances, benefits, and related pay items for its employees during any FY2026 lapse in appropriations, beginning February 14, 2026, with retroactive effect to February 13, 2026. Payments cannot duplicate other funding sources, must be charged to the proper appropriations once enacted, and remain available only until new appropriations are enacted, a law with no appropriation for these purposes is passed, or September 30, 2026.