FY 2026 Appropriations

The Senate made some progress on FY 2026 appropriations bills last week. Senate Democrats hotlined a proposal to package together four appropriations bills:  Defense, Labor-HHS, Treasury-HUD, and C-J-S.  Hotlining tests for any objections to allowing the Senate to bypass regular procedure and move legislation to a vote with little or no floor debate. In this case, it was used to show that there would be no issues on Democrats’ side to move forward with such spending package.

That said, Republicans could object to moving those bills together. Controversial provisions in the bills relate to the location of the new FBI headquarters and an amendment that would require Attorney General Pam Bondi to report on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.