| Submitted by | Donald Trump |
|---|---|
| Submitted to | 119th Congress |
| Country | United States |
‹ 2025 2027› | |
The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2026 runs from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026.
The 2024 United States elections resulted in the Republican Party having control in all three legislative chambers, the House (220–215), the Senate (53–47), and the Presidency. However, because appropriation legislation can still be fillibustered in the Senate, 60 votes are required to pass government funding in that body.
In 2025, for the first time since 2013, Congress was unable to pass the 12 required appropriation bills. Instead, the government was funded by a full-year continuing resolution in March 2025. [1] The passage of the legislation was controversial among some Democrats, because a small number Democrats in the Senate voted with Republicans to pass the continuing resolution and avert a government shutdown.
During the summer of 2025, House Republicans, passed three partisan spending bills, mostly along party lines. [2] Due to disagreements with the Senate over spending levels, the House voted to conference three spending bills with the Senate. [3] Without a continuing resolution, government funding expired after midnight on October 1, 2025, triggering a government shutdown. [4]
On September 16, 2025, House Republicans unveiled a continuing resolution to keep the government funded under current spending levels until November 21. Republicans called the proposal a clean continuing resolution, lacking partisan policy riders. The resolution also includes $30 million for lawmaker security. [5] Democrats criticised the proposal because it lacked extensions for Affordable Care Act tax credits. [6]
The bill would pass the House on September 19 in a 217–212 vote. Fiscal conservative Republicans Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted against the bill. Moderate Democrat Jared Golden of Maine voted for it. [7] Moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez missed the vote, but later said she supported the bill. [8] Later that day, the bill failed to pass in the Senate in a 48–44 vote. Two Republicans, Fiscal Conservative Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky and Moderate Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted against the bill. Moderate Democrat John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat to support the bill. [9]
On September 17, 2025, House and Senate Democrats unveiled a separate continuing resolution to keep the government funded until October 31. The Democratic proposal permanently extends Affordable Care Act tax credits, rolls back cuts to Medicaid that were implemented in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, restores funding cut in the Rescissions Act of 2025, and includes $320 million for lawmaker security. [10]
The proposal failed in the Senate, along party-lines, on September 19, 2025. [11]
On September 20, 2025, after the two failed votes in the Senate, Moderate Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted against both proposals, released a framework for a continuing resolution to keep the government open until November 21, 2025. The framework calls for a one year extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits, $30 million in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be prioritized for rural NPR stations, and funding programs cut by the Office of Management and Budget's September 2025 pocket rescission. [12] [13]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both Democrats from New York, announced plans to meet with President Trump on Thursday, September 25 to negotiate a continuing resolution. However, on September 23, Trump canceled the meeting through a post on Truth Social. In the post, President Trump wrote after "reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands" from Democrats "I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive." [14]
On September 24, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget, an office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States, released a memo requesting federal agencies prepare "reduction in force" plans in the case of a government shutdown. [15]
President Trump hosted a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday, September 29 to negotiate a continuing resolution. No progress was made. [16] [17]
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