Last Updated April 30, 2026

The Federal Government’s Fiscal Year 2025 (see FY2025 tracker) began on October 1, 2024. Congress passed multiple continuing resolutions (CR) to sustain the federal government’s outlays largely at FY2024 levels. These actions included the passage of a CR that funded most of the government at FY2024 levels through the end of FY2025 on September 30, 2025. Congress has subsequently appropriated the federal government through part of FY2026 through a series of CRs and a omnibus package. As of the “Last Updated” date for this article, the federal government is mostly appropriated through the end of the fiscal year with a notable exception for select immigration enforcement programs.

Updates

You can track the status of both chambers’ work to complete all 12 appropriations bills here. NABL will continue to keep members informed as more becomes available. [New Updates Highlighted]

• 4/30/2026: The House of Representatives passes H.R. 7147.
• 4/2/2026: The Senate passes H.R. 7147, which would fund most programmatic areas under DHS except for select immigration enforcement programs.
• 2/3/2026: The House passes and President Trump signs H.R. 7148, which appropriates the five remaining areas of appropriations through FY2026 and provides funding for DHS through February 13, 2026. The measure ends a brief partial federal government shutdown.
• 2/1/2026: The Federal government enters a partial government shutdown due to lapse appropriations in six areas: Defense, Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS), Transportation-Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD), Financial Services, State and Foreign Operations, and Homeland Security.
• 1/29/2026: Senate leadership announces a bipartisan deal to amend the House funding package to advance five of the six appropriations bills and provide stopgap funding for DHS for two weeks. The move would presumably allow negotiators additional time to work out a longer term solution to the impasse on ICE funding. It would require an additional vote in the House, which is in recess until Monday. As such, if the deal progresses, a short term partial government shutdown over the weekend could occur.
• 1/29/2026: The Senate fails to invoke cloture on a motion to advance the House-passed funding package in a 45 to 55 vote.
• 1/24/2026: The killing of a protester by ICE officials in Minneapolis leads to a massive grassroots advocacy movement urging Senators to reject the House-passed funding for DHS. Doubt rapidly grows over the Senate’s ability to pass the remaining House-passed appropriations packages, which notably include funding for DHS. At least seven Democrats would need to join the entire Republican caucus to pass the package. Democratic leadership signals their caucus would reject the package without additional specific rules and restrictions on ICE agents and proposes punting on DHS funding for a period of time and advancing the remaining funding bills.
• 1/22/2026: The House passes a final “minibus,” which would provide appropriations for the final four areas of the federal government: Labor, Health, and Human Services; Defense; and Transportation and Housing (“T-HUD”) on one bill (H.R. 7148) and Homeland Security on a separate bill (H.R. 7147).
• 1/15/2026: The Senate passes three of its appropriations bills: Interior and Environment; Commerce-Justice, and Science; and Energy and Water.
• 1/14/2026: The House passes another two-bill package that would provide appropriations for Financial Services and General Government (FSGG); and National Security and Foreign Operations.
• 1/8/2026: House passes the package that would include appropriations for the the Commerce Justice, and Science; Energy and Water; and Interior and Environment appropriations sections.
• 1/8/2026: 17 Republicans join Democrats in the House to pass an amended version of the Ending the Gridlock Act which would include a 3-year extension of the much debated enhanced tax credits for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. While the measure would still need to pass in the Senate, its House passage with Republican support marks significant progress through an impasse on a Democrat policy priority leading up to the January 30 funding deadline.
• 1/5/2026: Congressional leaders release a compromise package that includes three of the 12 appropriations bills in what is known as a “minibus.” The package would fund programs through the end of the fiscal year that are included in the Commerce Justice, and Science; Energy and Water; and Interior and Environment appropriations sections. The package would implement modest cuts to select programs that are much lower than those initially proposed by the White House. While the move represents substantial progress, it still does not address six of the 12 appropriations areas that also remain on a CR.
• 12/31/2025: Key ACA tax credits expired at the end of the day with inaction from Congress.
• 11/13/2025: Federal government reopens and resumes operations.
• 11/12/2025: The House of Representatives passes the final package in a 222 to 209 vote and President Trump signs it into law.
• 11/10/2025: The Senate passes the package in a 60 to 40 vote. It moves onto the House of Representatives, which is called back into session.
• 11/9/2025: The Senate successfully invokes cloture in a a 60 to 40 vote avoiding the threat of a filibuster and teeing up the final package for a likely passage.
• 11/9/2025: Republican leadership offers and Democratic leadership accepts a modified proposal that includes:

• 11/7/2025: Democratic leadership announce a new proposal that would reopen the government into the new year and provide a one-year extension for the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credit subsidies. Republican leadership rejects the proposal.

• 10/8/2025: Unlike most other federal agencies, the IRS continued operating for several days beyond the start of the government shutdown on October 1, 2025 due to advanced appropriations from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. On October 8, however, the IRS announced it furloughed nearly half of its workforce until the ongoing lapse in federal appropriations is resolved. Bond and tax counsel should consult the IRS’s contingency plan for more details on how operations are affected.
• 10/6/2025: The Senate rejected two competing proposals to address the political impasse and reopen the government. Senate Republicans again offered a “clean” CR that would fund the government through November 21, 2025, but it did not include the various healthcare provisions sought by Democrats. Three Senate Democrats voted again for the package, but Republican leadership had hoped to pick up several additional Democrats in their third round of voting. Republicans rejected the Democrat proposal to address various healthcare proposals and fund the government through October 31, 2025.
• 10/1/2025: Federal appropriations lapsed at 12:00am ET at which point the federal government began a near complete shutdown.

• 9/24/2025: Amid an increasing likelihood of a government shutdown, the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Russell Vought, issued a memo that directed agency leadership to update contingency plans for the event of a lapse of appropriations. The guidance included a directive for agencies to consider and pursue additional reduction in force (RIF) measures to decrease staffing.
• 9/23/2025: President Trump canceled a meeting scheduled for Thursday, September 25, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The meeting was initially scheduled at the request of the congressional Democratic leaders to negotiate a path forward on the appropriations impasse.
• 9/19/2025: The Senate failed to pass the House’s CR in a 44 to 48 vote with one Republican joining Democrats in voting against the measure, and one Democrat joining Republicans in supporting it.
• 9/19/2025: The House of Representatives passed the clean CR (H.R. 5371) in a vote almost entirely along party lines with one Democrat joining the Republicans in voting for its passage.
• 9/17/2025: House Republican leadership tentatively plan to hold a vote on their short-term spending deal as early as Friday, September 19, 2025.
• 9/16/2025: House Republican leadership released a proposed CR to fund the government through November 21, 2025. The measure would also include increased funding for lawmaker security. Democrats have broadly rejected the plan, primarily due to the package’s failure to address expiring healthcare tax credits. While Republicans can pass a short-term spending package along party lines in the House, they will need at least seven Democrats to join them in a Senate vote.
• 7/17/2025: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water marks up and advances an appropriations package that would propose significant cuts to various water related federal financing programs including the drinking water state revolving fund (SRF). While significant, the reductions would be lower than those proposed in the President’s budget request. It would, however, maintain funding for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan program.
• 5/2/2025: The White House Office of Management and Budget sends its discretionary budget requests to Congress. The budget proposal is nonbinding and appropriations for the federal government are determined by Congress. The proposal, however, does indicate the Administration’s appropriations priorities and perceived funding needs for agencies and federal programs. View Request >

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