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Authorizes the Treasury to pay whatever sums are needed in FY2026 to provide normal pay, benefits, and regular payments to United States Capitol Police officers and employees for work they performed during the government shutdown that began October 1, 2025, and to pay contractors the Chief of the Capitol Police finds are supporting them. Those outlays will later be charged to the Capitol Police appropriation once a regular or continuing appropriation is enacted; the authority is retroactive to September 30, 2025 and lapses on the earlier of enactment of Capitol Police appropriations for these purposes, enactment of legislative-branch appropriations that do not fund these purposes, or September 30, 2026. Funds are available only temporarily: they cover payroll and related contractor payments during the shutdown period and must be reconciled to future Capitol Police appropriations when those are passed into law.
For fiscal year 2026, appropriate from the Treasury such sums as are necessary to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other regularly payable payments to all officers and employees of the United States Capitol Police for any period of work performed by them during the lapse in appropriations that began October 1, 2025.
Authorize payment to contractors of the United States Capitol Police whom the Chief of the Capitol Police determines are providing support to the officers and employees described above during the lapse period.
Expenditures made under the appropriations above shall be charged to the applicable Capitol Police appropriation whenever a regular appropriation bill or a measure making continuing appropriations for the Capitol Police becomes law.
Appropriations, funds made available, and authority granted under the above are available only until the earliest of several events (described in separate items below).
Availability ends upon enactment into law of appropriations (including a continuing appropriation) for the Capitol Police for any purpose for which amounts are made available under the appropriation provision.
Directly affected parties are United States Capitol Police officers and employees who performed work during the government shutdown beginning October 1, 2025 — they become eligible to receive normal pay, benefits, and other regular payments under this authority. Contractors who the Chief of the Capitol Police determines are supporting those officers and employees may also be paid. Treasury will provide the cash up front under the temporary authority; later, those disbursements are charged to the Capitol Police appropriation once Congress enacts a regular or continuing appropriation. The legislative branch (Capitol Police leadership and congressional appropriations committees) will handle reconciliation and accounting, and federal budget records will reflect charges once appropriations are enacted. The measure does not create new permanent entitlements, impose obligations on states or localities, or change tax rules. Operationally, it ensures continuity of pay for Capitol Police personnel and supporting contractors during and immediately after the shutdown period, reducing immediate financial disruption for those employees and contractors while leaving ultimate budgetary responsibility to subsequent Capitol Police appropriations.
Last progress November 3, 2025 (3 months ago)
Introduced on November 3, 2025 by Ben Ray Luján
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.