S. 2882: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026

Bill · 119th Congress (2025–2026). Failed Senate, 30 Sep 2025. Introduced 18 Sep 2025.

Official title: A bill making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.

Vote results

Senate, 30 Sep 2025: Bill Defeated, 47 Yea, 53 Nay, 0 Present, 0 Not voting. The Senate’s roll call
President: Not presented to the President.

How each member voted

Senate

Yea (47): Edward J. Markey (D-MA); Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Ron Wyden (D-OR); Richard J. Durbin (D-IL); Jack Reed (D-RI); Bernard Sanders (I-VT); Patty Murray (D-WA); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); Adam B. Schiff (D-CA); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY); Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Christopher Murphy (D-CT); Peter Welch (D-VT); Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Ben Ray Luján (D-NM); Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Gary C. Peters (D-MI); Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Mark R. Warner (D-VA); Michael F. Bennet (D-CO); Christopher A. Coons (D-DE); Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); Brian Schatz (D-HI); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Tim Kaine (D-VA); Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME); Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Ruben Gallego (D-AZ); Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV); Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH); Jacky Rosen (D-NV); Tina Smith (D-MN); Andy Kim (D-NJ); Elissa Slotkin (D-MI); Mark Kelly (D-AZ); John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO); Jon Ossoff (D-GA); Alex Padilla (D-CA); Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA); John Fetterman (D-PA); Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD).

Nay (53): Chuck Grassley (R-IA); Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Mike Crapo (R-ID); Roger F. Wicker (R-MS); Susan M. Collins (R-ME); Jerry Moran (R-KS); John Thune (R-SD); Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV); John Boozman (R-AR); John Cornyn (R-TX); Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); John Barrasso (R-WY); Bill Cassidy (R-LA); James E. Risch (R-ID); John Hoeven (R-ND); Ron Johnson (R-WI); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Tim Scott (R-SC); Todd Young (R-IN); Tom Cotton (R-AR); Kevin Cramer (R-ND); Ted Cruz (R-TX); Steve Daines (R-MT); Deb Fischer (R-NE); Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY); Joni Ernst (R-IA); Mike Rounds (R-SD); Dan Sullivan (R-AK); Thom Tillis (R-NC); Jim Banks (R-IN); Ted Budd (R-NC); John Kennedy (R-LA); Roger Marshall (R-KS); John R. Curtis (R-UT); Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS); Josh Hawley (R-MO); Rick Scott (R-FL); Bill Hagerty (R-TN); Tommy Tuberville (R-AL); Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL); Eric Schmitt (R-MO); Pete Ricketts (R-NE); David McCormick (R-PA); Bernie Moreno (R-OH); Tim Sheehy (R-MT); James C. Justice (R-WV); Jon Husted (R-OH); Ashley Moody (R-FL); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Markwayne Mullin (R-OK).

Not in office (4): Alan Armstrong (R-OK); Darline Graham (R-SC); Marco Rubio (R-FL); J.D. Vance (R-OH).

Summary

Main subject: Continues federal appropriations for fiscal year 2026 at fiscal year 2025 rates through October 31, 2025, adds some additional appropriations, and extends expiring health, veterans and other program authorities through that date, along with changes to health insurance tax credit rules. Sec. 101, Sec. 106, Division B

Its core areas: Continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2026; Limits on withholding and apportionment of appropriated funds; Security funding for Congress, federal courts and the United States Marshals Service; Medicare, public health and Medicaid program extensions through October 31, 2025; Premium tax credit under section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code; Repeal of health provisions in Public Law 119-21; Veterans program extensions.

Unexpected Items: 38 provisions

These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.

Not related to the bill’s main subject (18)

Sec. 136: Directs the Secretary of Energy to complete hot commissioning of the Direct-Feed Low Activity Waste facility at the Hanford Site by October 15, 2025, unless the State of Washington's Department of Ecology agrees to another date, and to operate it at a set throughput rate.
Sec. 152: Amends an administrative provision for the Forest Service in Public Law 109–54 by striking two phrases from its first sentence.
Sec. 159: Provides that no cost-of-living adjustment under section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 is made for Members of Congress during the period covered by the Act.
Sec. 162: Authorizes the U.S. Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to subscribe up to 40,000 additional shares and authorizes $437,457,804 to be appropriated for that subscription. ($437,457,804)
Sec. 2104: Additional programs: Adds $67,000,000 for fiscal year 2026 to No Surprises Act implementation funding, and extends a national technical assistance center program on grandfamilies and kinship families to October 31, 2025. ($67,000,000)
Sec. 2301: Commodity Futures Trading Commission whistleblower program: Changes two dates in Public Law 117–25 (Commodity Futures Trading Commission whistleblower program) from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2302: Forest Service participation in ACES program: Applies section 8302(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Forest Service participation in the ACES program) with “1 day after October 31, 2025” in place of “October 1, 2023”.
Sec. 2303: Food for Peace Act: Keeps the authorities of each provision of the Food for Peace Act, as in effect on September 30, 2025, in effect through October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2304: United States Grain Standards Act: Extends dates in three sections of the United States Grain Standards Act to October 31, 2025 and applies the section 7D cost limitation to October 1 through October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2305: Extension of Defense Production Act of 1950: Changes the date in section 717(a) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2306: Alternative fuel vehicles in HOV lanes: Changes the date in the alternative fuel vehicles in HOV lanes provision of title 23 from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2307: Eligibility of certain projects under the TIFIA program: Changes the date in the TIFIA program project eligibility provision of title 23 from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2308: Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft: Changes the date in section 210G(i) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft) from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2309: National Cybersecurity Protection System authorization: Changes the date in section 227(a) of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2310: State and local cybersecurity grant program: Changes the date in section 2220A(s)(2) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (state and local cybersecurity grant program) from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2311: Cybersecurity information sharing: Changes the date in section 111(a) of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2312: Additional special assessment: Changes the date in section 3014(a) of title 18 (additional special assessment) from September 30, 2025 to October 31, 2025.
Sec. 2313: Short-term reauthorization of the United States International Development Finance Corporation: Changes the expiration in section 1424(a) of the BUILD Act of 2018 (United States International Development Finance Corporation) from 7 years after enactment to October 31, 2025.

Funds a specific named project or event (11)

Sec. 131: Allows Navy shipbuilding funds to be apportioned up to $154,000,000 to complete the fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2018 Virginia Class Submarine Programs, notwithstanding sections 102 and 104. ($154,000,000)
Sec. 132: Provides up to $199,676,000 in apportioned funds and a $200,000,000 transfer for the E–7 Wedgetail program, and bars funds from being used to pause, cancel, or terminate that program.
Sec. 133: Changes a proviso amount under the National Nuclear Security Administration Weapons Activities heading from $118,056,000 to $149,244,000.
Sec. 134: Applies the Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act with 2026 in place of 2022 and raises a figure in section 103(f)(4)(A) from $30,000,000 to $32,600,000 during the period covered by the Act.
Sec. 143: Establishes an Office of Inspector General of the Office of Management and Budget, requires an appointment within 45 days, appropriates $20,000,000 for it, and exempts its funds from apportionment. ($20,000,000)
Sec. 154: Appropriates $490,960,000 for payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting within 3 days of enactment, with the formula allocation applied as if $535,000,000 were available and no funds under two named subclauses. ($490,960,000)
Sec. 156: Provides a payment of $174,000 to a named individual described as the heir of a late Representative. ($174,000)
Sec. 157: Provides a payment of $174,000 to a named individual described as the widow of a late Representative. ($174,000)
Sec. 158: Provides a payment of $174,000 to a named individual described as the widow of a late Representative. ($174,000)
Sec. 161: Adds $6,865,235 for the cost of direct loans and authority to subsidize up to $75,000,000 in direct loans under the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account.
Sec. 167: Rescinds unobligated fair housing activities balances from Public Law 118–42 and appropriates an equal amount to complete funding of awards under the fiscal year 2024 fair housing initiatives program.

Different amount for specific places or groups (2)

Sec. 155: Sets the base grant for the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands at $8,000,000 each, treated as equal to the prior fiscal year's base grant amount. ($8,000,000)
Sec. 2131: Modifying certain disproportionate share hospital allotments: Sets the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital allotment for Tennessee for October 1 through October 31, 2025 at $4,509,863, and also delays Medicaid DSH reductions. ($4,509,863)

Exception or delay for a subset (3)

Sec. 122: Keeps expired, uncancelled balances in named NASA accounts available through fiscal year 2030 to pay valid obligations from fiscal years 2001 through 2013 for closing out Space Shuttle contracts.
Sec. 138: Allows the District of Columbia to spend local funds at the rate set in the Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget Act of 2025, as modified, notwithstanding other provisions of the Act other than section 106.
Sec. 135: Notwithstanding the continuing-rate rule in section 101, four named Department of Energy accounts are to be obligated per the line-item table in the Public Law 118-42 explanatory statement, and subsections (e), (f), and (g) of section 301 of that law do not apply to those amounts.

Changes a government process (4)

Sec. 116: Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act by striking the requirement that the President subsequently designate an emergency, and treats certain emergency-designated amounts as if the President had designated them.
Sec. 164: Rescinds unobligated balances for fiscal year 2022 competitive highway awards under section 176 of title 23 and appropriates an equal amount to complete those awards without additional competition.
Sec. 166: Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to renew existing continuum of care grants and youth homelessness demonstration projects noncompetitively for one 12-month period by December 15, 2025.
Sec. 2401: Budgetary effects: Provides that the budgetary effects of Division B are not entered on the statutory or Senate PAYGO scorecards and are not estimated for certain budget-enforcement purposes.

What it does

Sec. 101: Provides such amounts as may be necessary, at the fiscal year 2025 rate for operations, to continue projects and activities funded in the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025, with listed exceptions.
Sec. 106: Makes the funds and authority in this division available until the earliest of enactment of an appropriation for the activity, enactment of the applicable fiscal year 2026 appropriations Act without provision for it, or October 31, 2025.
Sec. 119: Provides that budget authority named in a special message under section 1012 or 1013 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 may not be deferred or withheld from obligation during the 90-day period before its availability expires.
Sec. 160: Appropriates $90,000,000 for the House Sergeant at Arms for enhanced Member security programs, $66,500,000 for the Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, and $30,000,000 for Capitol Police mutual aid reimbursements.
Sec. 2141: Repeals Subtitle B of title VII of Public Law 119-21 and directs that any law or regulation it referred to be applied as if that subtitle had not been enacted.
Sec. 2142: Amends section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code by striking the 400 percent household income limit and replacing the applicable percentage table with a sliding scale, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.

Written automatically from the official text by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model. Written 29 Sep 2026 and published after the automatic checks, without a person reading it first. Every line names the section it came from.