Division A — FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025
Division Overview
Overview
Division A is not a single-department spending bill. It is a full-year continuing resolution for fiscal year 2025: it keeps most of the federal government funded through September 30, 2025, by carrying forward the fiscal year 2024 appropriations laws, then overrides those levels for specific accounts. It covers virtually every major department—Defense, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Energy, Interior, State, Transportation, Housing, and the rest—under the same rules and conditions as last year unless this division says otherwise.
Total Spending
No single total is stated in the text. The base rule is “such amounts as may be necessary” at fiscal year 2024 levels, including transfers and obligation limits. Only the exceptions are written out as dollar amounts. A grand total cannot be calculated from this division alone without the underlying 2024 acts.
The largest figures that are written out are Defense account levels (hundreds of billions across pay, operations, procurement, and research), a $261.1 billion Medicaid advance for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, and large Veterans Affairs advances for fiscal year 2026, including $227.2 billion for compensation and pensions.
Key Funding Areas
- Defense military pay (active duty): about $144.5 billion combined — Army $51.2 billion, Navy $38.8 billion, Air Force $37.0 billion, Marine Corps $16.2 billion, and Space Force $1.3 billion, plus about $26.9 billion for Reserve and National Guard pay.
- Defense operations and maintenance (six main accounts): about $263.5 billion — including Navy $73.7 billion, Air Force $63.2 billion, Army $58.0 billion, and Defense-wide $53.4 billion — for day-to-day military operations.
- Defense research, development, test, and evaluation: about $141.2 billion — Air Force $46.8 billion, Defense-wide $35.2 billion, Navy $26.0 billion, Space Force $18.6 billion, and Army $14.3 billion.
- Navy shipbuilding: $33.3 billion — Columbia-class and Virginia-class submarines, DDG-51 destroyers, aircraft-carrier work, and $2.4 billion to cover prior-year shipbuilding cost overruns.
- Defense Health Program: $40.4 billion — military health care. Separately, $8.0 billion is added for U.S. operations, force protection, and deterrence under Central Command and European Command, available only after the Pentagon sends Congress an execution plan.
- FEMA Disaster Relief Fund: $22.5 billion — major disasters under the Stafford Act, designated as disaster relief.
- Veterans health advances for fiscal year 2026: $75.0 billion for medical services, $34.0 billion for community care, $12.7 billion for medical support, and $9.7 billion for medical facilities, available October 1, 2025. An additional $6.0 billion goes to the Cost of War Toxic Exposure Fund.
- Housing assistance: $32.0 billion for tenant-based rental assistance (housing vouchers) and $16.5 billion for project-based rental assistance, plus $931 million for housing for the elderly and $257 million for housing for people with disabilities.
- WIC: $7.6 billion — food assistance for low-income women, infants, and children. Food safety inspection is set at $1.2 billion.
- Other large specified levels: Homeland Security operations include ICE $10.0 billion, TSA $10.6 billion, and Coast Guard $10.4 billion. Nuclear weapons activities at the National Nuclear Security Administration are $19.3 billion. FAA operations are $13.5 billion. Social Security administrative expenses are capped at $14.1 billion.
Mandatory advance payments for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 also include $261.1 billion for Medicaid grants to states, $22.1 billion for Supplemental Security Income, $3.6 billion for foster care and permanency, and $1.6 billion for child support and family support.
Notable Provisions
- Last year’s earmarks are void. Any fiscal year 2024 congressional earmark, community project funding, or congressionally directed spending item has no legal effect on money provided by this division.
- No new starts that were banned last year. Agencies cannot start or restart a project or activity that appropriations law specifically prohibited in fiscal year 2024. For Defense, new projects generally must also have been included in the House- or Senate-passed fiscal year 2025 defense bills.
- Funding runs through September 30, 2025, and spending already made under the earlier short-term continuing resolution is charged to these accounts.
- More flexibility for the Pentagon. A major Defense transfer cap rises from $6 billion to $8 billion. Another reprogramming limit rises from 20 percent to 40 percent. A new $89 million credit-program account can support up to $4 billion in loans and loan guarantees for defense industrial-base investment.
- Defense rescissions. About $1.43 billion in unobligated prior-year Defense funds is permanently canceled, including $80 million from the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund and large amounts from Air Force research and procurement.
- Homeland Security and foreign-aid clawbacks. Unobligated DHS balances are rescinded account by account, plus $133 million from a DHS nonrecurring-expenses fund. $111 million in old debt-restructuring money at the State Department is rescinded. International peacekeeping contributions are set at $1.23 billion.
- Several set-asides are zeroed out in Justice grants, EPA state and tribal assistance, health, education, and job-training accounts—consistent with dropping project-specific add-ons rather than rewriting whole programs. The NIH Innovation Account under the CURES Act is cut from $407 million to $127 million.
- Program extensions. Livestock mandatory price reporting is extended through 2025. The National Flood Insurance Program is extended through the life of this act. Afghan allies protections and certain refugee provisions are extended through 2025. Israel loan-guarantee authority is extended one year, to September 30, 2030. The U.S. Parole Commission’s authorization is extended by substituting “37” for “36.”
- Inauguration and elections. $50 million of a $90 million D.C. emergency-planning payment is for January 2025 inauguration security costs. Election security grants are $15 million. No funds are provided for the General Services Administration’s pre-election presidential transition account.
- Disaster and water projects. Small Business Administration disaster loans are $406 million, of which $374 million is for major disasters. The Army Corps must send Congress a fiscal year 2025 civil-works plan within 60 days, limited to projects already active. Prior-year water-storage and reuse money is directed to California’s Sites Reservoir and several water-reuse projects. The authorization cap for a northwestern New Mexico rural water project rises from $870 million to $1.64 billion.
- Oversight. Major departments must send Congress a fiscal year 2025 spending plan within 45 days. The Office of Management and Budget must report monthly, starting May 15, 2025, on obligations compared with the same period in fiscal year 2024.
Who Benefits
Service members, military families, and defense contractors benefit from pay, operations, shipbuilding, and research funding, including extra money for operations in the Middle East and Europe. Veterans benefit from large health-care and benefits advances and the toxic-exposure fund. People hit by major disasters benefit from FEMA and SBA disaster accounts. Low-income families benefit from WIC, housing vouchers, Medicaid advances, SSI, foster care, and child support payments. Rural communities benefit from water, conservation, telemedicine, and broadband accounts. Air travelers and renters benefit from FAA operations funding and HUD rental assistance. The bill also funds core operations at nearly every federal agency, so the practical beneficiaries are the public services those agencies already run.
Plain English Summary
Congress did not finish twelve separate spending bills for 2025. Instead it passed one law that says: keep paying for government at last year’s levels through September 30, 2025, with a long list of exceptions. The Pentagon, veterans’ health and benefits, disaster aid, food aid for mothers and young children, and rental assistance are among the biggest amounts written into the text. A lot of last year’s hometown project earmarks are canceled, some old unspent defense and homeland-security money is taken back, and agencies have to tell Congress how they plan to spend the year. If you use a federal service—from airport security to a housing voucher to veterans’ care—this is the law that keeps the lights on for the rest of the fiscal year, mostly on last year’s blueprint.
Titles
Title Summary
Title I is the full-year continuing-appropriations engine for Division A. It funds, through September 30, 2025, projects and activities that are not otherwise provided for in this division, at the amounts in the 12 fiscal year 2024 appropriations acts (including transfers and obligation limitations), under those acts’ authorities and conditions, with listed anomalies. It covers Agriculture/FDA, Commerce-Justice-Science, Defense, Energy and Water, Financial Services, Homeland Security, Interior/EPA, Labor-HHS-Education, the Legislative Branch, Military Construction/Veterans Affairs, State/Foreign Operations, and Transportation/HUD. It also provides first-quarter fiscal year 2026 advances for certain mandatory benefit accounts.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Sec. 1101 baseline | Such amounts as may be necessary, at FY2024 appropriated levels (including transfers and obligation limitations) | Continues otherwise unprovided projects and activities under the 12 FY2024 appropriations acts through Sept. 30, 2025 |
| CJS Act §510 (substituted rate) | $1,900,000,000 (was $1,353,000,000) | Applies the cited FY2024 Commerce-Justice-Science section at a higher amount |
| CJS Act §521(a)(1) | $30,000,000 (was $35,000,000) | Lower substituted rate for that subsection |
| CJS Act §521(a)(4) | $9,560,000,000 (was $12,440,000,000) | Lower substituted rate for that subsection |
| CJS Act §521(b)(3) | $15,000,000 (was $5,000,000) | Higher substituted rate for that subsection |
| CJS Act §521(b)(4) | $125,000,000 (was $120,000,000) | Higher substituted rate for that subsection |
| CJS Act §521(b)(5) | $20,000,000 (was $15,000,000) | Higher substituted rate for that subsection |
| CJS Act §521(c)(1) | $300,000,000 (was $131,572,000) | Higher substituted rate for that subsection |
| CJS Act §521(c)(2) | $250,000,000 (was $500,000,000) | Lower substituted rate for that subsection |
| FSGG Act §635 | $400,000,000 (was $387,500,000) | Higher substituted rate for that Financial Services section |
| D.C. Courts—Federal Payment for Defender Services (last proviso) | $12,000,000 (was $25,000,000) | Lower cap under that heading |
| LHHS Act §240 | $1,471,000,000 (was $1,250,000,000); “2025” replaces “2024,” with a bar on rescinding prior emergency-designated amounts | Substituted amount and updated year in that Labor-HHS-Education section |
| LHHS Act §528 | $13,059,000,000 (was $14,224,000,000) | Lower substituted amount in that section |
| LHHS Act §529 | $160,000,000 (was $4,309,000,000) | Much lower substituted amount in that section |
| Disabled coal miners’ special benefits (advance) | $6,000,000, available until expended | First-quarter FY2026 benefit payments under title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act |
| Medicaid grants to States (advance) | $261,063,820,000, available until expended | First-quarter FY2026 payments to States under title XIX of the Social Security Act (including §1928) |
| Child support enforcement and family support (advance) | $1,600,000,000, available until expended | First-quarter FY2026 payments under specified Social Security Act titles and 24 U.S.C. ch. 9 |
| Foster care and permanency (advance) | $3,600,000,000 | First-quarter FY2026 payments under title IV–E of the Social Security Act |
| Supplemental Security Income (advance) | $22,100,000,000, available until expended | First-quarter FY2026 benefit payments under title XVI of the Social Security Act |
| Entitlements, other mandatory payments, and Food and Nutrition Act activities | Amounts necessary to maintain current-law program levels | Sec. 1109(a); not a fixed dollar total in this title |
| Discretionary advance appropriations | Same amounts as the FY2025 or FY2026 advances in the FY2024 acts, shifted to FY2026 or FY2027 | Sec. 1112; dollar totals are not restated here |
Notable Sections
- Rate anomalies and drop-outs (Sec. 1101). Most accounts continue at FY2024 rates, but specified CJS, Financial Services, and Labor-HHS-Education amounts are rewritten. Entire provisions are not carried forward, including CJS §§222 and listed §521 subsections; Energy and Water §§307, 311, and 312 and a Corps of Engineers construction proviso; Financial Services §§636–639; Homeland Security §§543–546; Interior/EPA §§446–448 and named Park Service and EPA grant provisos; Labor-HHS-Education §§241 and 310; the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies of 2025; three Veterans Health Administration provisos; State/Foreign Operations §§7074(e) and 7075(a); and Transportation-HUD §§108, 109B, 119G, 125, 154, 165, 171, and 236.
- No new starts of prohibited projects (Sec. 1104). Funds may not start or restart any project or activity specifically prohibited in FY2024.
- Foreign-affairs and intelligence waivers (Sec. 1108). Obligations may proceed notwithstanding 22 U.S.C. §§2412, 2680, and 6212 and 50 U.S.C. §3094(a)(1).
- Earmarks voided (Sec. 1111). FY2024 statutory or report earmarks—including community project funding and congressionally directed spending—have no legal effect on funds in this division.
- Emergency and disaster designations (Secs. 1110 and 1116). Prior emergency and disaster-relief designations carry forward, including on later transfers.
- Oversight (Secs. 1113–1114). Listed departments and agencies must file FY2025 spending or operating plans within 45 days of enactment; OMB must report obligations monthly from May 15, 2025, through November 1, 2025, compared with FY2024.
- Parole Commission (Sec. 1115). Extends the United States Parole Commission by substituting “37” for “36” in the Sentencing Reform Act sunset provision.
- Duration and prior CR (Secs. 1106–1107). Authority generally runs through September 30, 2025; spending under the earlier Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 (P.L. 118–83) is charged to this division.
Plain English
This title keeps most of the federal government running through September 30, 2025, at last year’s funding levels, changes a handful of specific accounts up or down, cancels last year’s earmarks, and sets aside early money so Medicaid, SSI, foster care, child support, and coal-miner benefits can be paid at the start of the next fiscal year.
Title Summary
Title II sets specific funding levels for selected U.S. Department of Agriculture accounts, overriding the bill’s general continuation of prior-year funding (section 1101). The specified accounts cover animal and plant health inspection, conservation and watershed work, rural water and broadband, meat and poultry inspection, commodity food aid, and WIC. The title heading names the Food and Drug Administration, but these sections do not set an FDA dollar amount.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Agricultural Research Service—Buildings and Facilities | $0 | No funding for this buildings-and-facilities account |
| Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service—Salaries and Expenses | $1,147,750,000 | APHIS operating expenses |
| Natural Resources Conservation Service—Conservation Operations | $895,754,000 | Conservation technical assistance and operations |
| NRCS—Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations | $14,650,000 | Watershed and flood-prevention projects |
| Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Account | $478,487,000 | Rural water and waste-disposal assistance |
| Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program (grants) | $40,000,000 | Grants for rural telemedicine and distance-learning services |
| Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program (pilot) | $90,000,000 | Cost of continuing the broadband loan-and-grant pilot program |
| Food Safety and Inspection Service | $1,214,009,000 | Meat, poultry, and egg product inspection |
| Commodity Assistance Program | $516,070,000 | Commodity food assistance; $425,000,000 of this is for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program |
| WIC | $7,597,000,000 | Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children |
| Transfer to Rural Housing Service—Rental Assistance Program | $34,000,000 | Required transfer from Rural Development accounts (not a separate new appropriation) |
These figures are the levels set for the named accounts. Other agriculture accounts are not given dollar amounts in this title.
Notable Sections
- Sec. 1201(1) sets Agricultural Research Service Buildings and Facilities at $0.
- Sec. 1203 extends two livestock mandatory price-reporting authorities—section 260 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 and section 942 of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999—by changing their end dates from 2024 to 2025.
- Sec. 1204 strikes paragraph (1) of section 778 of division B of Public Law 118–42. The text does not restate what that paragraph provided.
- Sec. 1205 lets USDA reprogram Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund amounts among loan categories so program levels stay as close as practicable to fiscal year 2024 levels, notwithstanding a statutory allocation limit.
- Sec. 1206 allows transfers among Rural Development accounts to approximate fiscal year 2024 program levels, and requires a $34,000,000 transfer to the Rental Assistance Program.
- Sec. 1207 changes a prior disaster-aid proviso so producers may keep payments up to 90 percent of revenue losses when the Secretary finds only a de minimis share of the loss came from crops that were not insured or covered by the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program. Repurposed amounts previously treated as emergency spending remain designated as an emergency requirement.
Plain English
This title funds USDA food-safety inspections, WIC and commodity food aid, conservation, rural water, and rural broadband and telemedicine, while giving the department limited flexibility to shift farm-loan and rural-development money so those programs stay near last year’s levels.
Title Summary
Title III sets specific funding levels for selected Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies accounts, overriding the general continuing level in section 1101 of the Act. It covers the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Justice state and local law enforcement and detention accounts, Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), and NASA mission support.
These are account-level amounts, not the full CJS appropriation. Only the accounts listed in sections 1301 and 1302 are reset here.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| NIST — Scientific and Technical Research and Services | $857,159,000 | Core NIST research and technical services |
| NIST — Construction of Research Facilities | $87,758,000 | Construction of NIST research facilities |
| NOAA — Operations, Research and Facilities | $4,408,986,000 | NOAA operations, research, and facilities |
| DOJ — State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance | $2,000,033,000 | Grants and assistance to state and local law enforcement (Office of Justice Programs) |
| — of which, amounts under paragraph (1) | $499,033,000 | Specified subset of that assistance account |
| — subparagraphs (Q) and (R) of paragraph (1) | $0 | Two named sub-items within that account are zeroed out |
| COPS — Community Oriented Policing Services Programs | $417,168,839 | COPS program funding |
| — amounts under paragraph (7) | $0 | A specified COPS sub-item is zeroed out |
| NASA — Safety, Security and Mission Services | $3,092,327,000 | NASA safety, security, and mission support services |
| DOJ — Justice Information Sharing Technology | $38,460,240 | Justice Department information-sharing technology |
| U.S. Marshals Service — Federal Prisoner Detention | $2,236,000,000 | Detention of federal prisoners |
Specified account total: $13,137,892,079. The $499,033,000 figure is included in the $2,000,033,000 law-enforcement assistance total, not added to it.
Notable Sections
- Sections 1301 and 1302 both begin “Notwithstanding section 1101,” so these accounts do not simply continue at the baseline rate; Congress sets a new level for each listed account.
- State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance (sec. 1301(4)) keeps the account at $2,000,033,000 but directs that paragraph (1) be $499,033,000 and that subparagraphs (Q) and (R) of paragraph (1) be $0. The title does not name those subparagraphs.
- COPS (sec. 1301(5)) sets program funding at $417,168,839 and sets amounts under paragraph (7) to $0. The title does not identify that paragraph.
- No new programs are created in this title. The distinctive provisions are the account resets and the three zeroed sub-items.
Plain English
This title locks in about $13.1 billion for weather and ocean science, standards research, NASA support, policing grants, justice technology, and federal prisoner detention, while cutting three unnamed sub-items inside the policing accounts to zero.
This title sets full-year Department of Defense funding levels, overriding the bill’s default continuing-resolution formula in section 1101. It covers military pay, operations, procurement, shipbuilding, research, health care, and related defense accounts, largely by resetting accounts from the FY2024 Defense Appropriations Act (Public Law 118–47). Two sections add new money; another permanently cancels prior-year balances.
Spending Breakdown
Amounts in sections 1401–1408 are specified funding levels, not separate add-ons. Sections 1420 and 1421 are additional appropriations. Section 1416 rescinds unspent prior-year funds.
Category totals (sums of the listed accounts):
| Category | Amount | Purpose |
| Military personnel (sec. 1401) | $171,388,011,000 | Pay and benefits for active duty, reserve, and National Guard |
| Operation and maintenance (sec. 1402) | $290,287,432,000 | Day-to-day operations, training, environmental cleanup, and related programs |
| Procurement (sec. 1403) | $134,126,835,000 | Aircraft, missiles, weapons, ammunition, and other equipment |
| Shipbuilding and conversion, Navy (sec. 1404) | $33,331,952,000 | New ships, advance procurement, overhauls, and prior-year cost increases |
| Research, development, test and evaluation (sec. 1405) | $141,241,561,000 | R&D and operational testing |
| Revolving and management funds (sec. 1406) | $1,840,550,000 | Defense working-capital and management funds |
| Other DoD programs (sec. 1407) | $42,820,784,000 | Health care, chemical-weapons destruction, counterdrug, and IG |
| Intelligence Community Management Account (sec. 1408) | $629,128,000 | Intelligence Community management |
| Subtotal, specified levels | $815,666,253,000 | |
| Defense industrial-base credit program (sec. 1420) | $89,049,000 | Additional; loan subsidy (up to $4 billion in principal) |
| CENTCOM/EUCOM operations (sec. 1421) | $8,000,000,000 | Additional; transferable operations and deterrence funds |
| Total specified plus additional | $823,755,302,000 | |
| Permanent rescissions (sec. 1416) | $1,434,302,000 | Cancellation of prior-year unobligated balances |
Military personnel (sec. 1401)
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Military Personnel, Army | $51,181,397,000 | Active-duty Army pay and allowances |
| Military Personnel, Navy | $38,813,378,000 | Active-duty Navy pay and allowances |
| Military Personnel, Marine Corps | $16,151,382,000 | Active-duty Marine Corps pay and allowances |
| Military Personnel, Air Force | $37,023,437,000 | Active-duty Air Force pay and allowances |
| Military Personnel, Space Force | $1,312,347,000 | Space Force pay and allowances |
| Reserve Personnel, Army | $5,490,830,000 | Army Reserve pay |
| Reserve Personnel, Navy | $2,566,620,000 | Navy Reserve pay |
| Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps | $944,225,000 | Marine Corps Reserve pay |
| Reserve Personnel, Air Force | $2,597,273,000 | Air Force Reserve pay |
| National Guard Personnel, Army | $10,019,623,000 | Army National Guard pay |
| National Guard Personnel, Air Force | $5,287,499,000 | Air National Guard pay |
Operation and maintenance (sec. 1402)
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Operation and Maintenance, Army | $57,968,853,000 | Army operating costs |
| Operation and Maintenance, Navy | $73,657,268,000 | Navy operating costs |
| Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps | $10,183,272,000 | Marine Corps operating costs |
| Operation and Maintenance, Air Force | $63,239,279,000 | Air Force operating costs |
| Operation and Maintenance, Space Force | $5,070,915,000 | Space Force operating costs |
| Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide | $53,376,465,000 | Defense-wide operating costs |
| Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund | $528,699,000 | Partner training and equipment against ISIS |
| Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve | $3,233,517,000 | Army Reserve operations |
| Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve | $1,316,518,000 | Navy Reserve operations |
| Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve | $334,258,000 | Marine Corps Reserve operations |
| Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve | $4,029,224,000 | Air Force Reserve operations |
| Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard | $8,408,317,000 | Army Guard operations |
| Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard | $7,249,086,000 | Air Guard operations |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces | $21,035,000 | Military appellate court |
| Environmental Restoration, Army | $283,069,000 | Army cleanup of contaminated sites |
| Environmental Restoration, Navy | $343,591,000 | Navy cleanup |
| Environmental Restoration, Air Force | $330,524,000 | Air Force cleanup |
| Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide | $9,480,000 | Defense-wide cleanup |
| Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites | $236,475,000 | Cleanup of former defense sites |
| Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid | $115,335,000 | Overseas humanitarian and civic aid |
| Cooperative Threat Reduction Account | $296,076,000 | Threat-reduction programs |
| Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Account | $56,176,000 | Acquisition workforce development |
Procurement (sec. 1403)
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Aircraft Procurement, Army | $3,472,891,000 | Army aircraft |
| Missile Procurement, Army | $5,998,293,000 | Army missiles |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | $3,688,870,000 | Army combat vehicles and weapons |
| Procurement of Ammunition, Army | $2,857,276,000 | Army ammunition |
| Other Procurement, Army | $8,677,094,000 | Other Army equipment |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | $15,918,954,000 | Navy aircraft |
| Weapons Procurement, Navy | $6,348,511,000 | Navy weapons |
| Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps | $1,598,584,000 | Navy and Marine Corps ammunition |
| Other Procurement, Navy | $15,142,773,000 | Other Navy equipment |
| Procurement, Marine Corps | $3,803,608,000 | Marine Corps equipment |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | $19,899,019,000 | Air Force aircraft |
| Missile Procurement, Air Force | $4,258,672,000 | Air Force missiles |
| Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force | $550,646,000 | Air Force ammunition |
| Other Procurement, Air Force | $30,978,191,000 | Other Air Force equipment |
| Procurement, Space Force | $3,900,769,000 | Space Force equipment |
| Procurement, Defense-Wide | $5,719,307,000 | Defense-wide equipment |
| Defense Production Act Purchases | $463,377,000 | Industrial-base purchases under the DPA |
| National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account | $850,000,000 | Guard and Reserve equipment |
Shipbuilding and conversion, Navy (sec. 1404) — $33,331,952,000
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Columbia Class Submarine | $3,364,835,000 | Ballistic-missile submarine construction |
| Columbia Class Submarine (AP) | $6,215,939,000 | Advance procurement for Columbia class |
| Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–80) | $1,123,124,000 | Aircraft carrier Enterprise |
| Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–81) | $674,930,000 | Follow-on carrier |
| Virginia Class Submarine | $3,615,904,000 | Attack-submarine construction |
| Virginia Class Submarine (AP) | $3,720,303,000 | Advance procurement for Virginia class |
| CVN Refueling Overhauls | $811,143,000 | Carrier refueling overhauls |
| DDG–1000 Program | $61,100,000 | Zumwalt-class destroyer |
| DDG–51 Destroyer | $7,951,890,000 | Arleigh Burke-class destroyers |
| DDG–51 Destroyer (AP) | $83,224,000 | Advance procurement for DDG–51 |
| FFG–Frigate | $233,200,000 | Frigate program |
| LPD Flight II | $1,561,963,000 | Amphibious transport dock |
| LHA Replacement (AP) | $61,118,000 | Advance procurement for amphibious assault ship |
| Medium Landing Ship | $29,668,000 |
Title Summary
Title V adjusts fiscal year 2025 funding for energy and water programs relative to the continuing baseline in section 1101. It sets specific levels for the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Energy loan and defense accounts, and the National Nuclear Security Administration, and it zeroes out the DOE “Energy Projects” account. It also directs prior-year water-storage and reuse funds to named Western projects and authorizes use of nuclear-security funds for specified weapons-infrastructure work.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Bureau of Reclamation—Water and Related Resources | $1,710,806,000 | Water and related resources; the sixth proviso under that heading does not apply to these funds |
| DOE—Energy Programs—Energy Projects | $0 | No funding for this account |
| DOE—Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program | $55,000,000 | Loan-guarantee program administrative/credit support; related provisos are applied at $55,000,000 and $170,000,000 in place of $70,000,000 |
| NNSA—Weapons Activities | $19,293,000,000 | Nuclear weapons activities |
| NNSA—Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation | $2,396,000,000 | Defense nuclear nonproliferation |
| DOE—Other Defense Activities | $1,107,000,000 | Other defense-related energy activities |
| Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act authorization | $1,640,000,000 (replaces $870,000,000; year changed from 2024 to 2025) | Raises the statutory authorization ceiling; not a new appropriation in this title |
Amounts continued under section 1101 for other accounts, including Naval Reactors, are not restated in this title.
Notable Sections
- Sec. 1501 sets Reclamation water funding and provides $0 for DOE Energy Projects.
- Sec. 1503 requires the Army Corps Chief of Engineers to send Congress a detailed FY2025 work plan within 60 days. Funds under Investigations, Construction, and Mississippi River and Tributaries may go only to studies and projects that were already active the day before enactment and otherwise eligible. Once submitted, the plan generally may not be changed except as allowed by prior law.
- Sec. 1503(a) and Sec. 1505 make specified provisions of the FY2024 Energy and Water Act (Public Law 118–42) inapplicable to funds in this division, including for Weapons Activities, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Defense Environmental Cleanup.
- Sec. 1504 changes Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund language so amounts are “deposited into and subsequently derived from” the fund rather than only “derived from” it.
- Sec. 1506 raises the Northwestern New Mexico rural water authorization from $870 million to $1.64 billion and extends the date to 2025.
- Sec. 1507 makes previously provided storage and reuse funding available to the Sites Reservoir Project and to named projects including El Paso Aquifer Storage and Recovery, Replenish Big Bear, several San Diego-area recycled-water projects, Coachella Valley WRP–10, Pure Water Oceanside, and Carpinteria Advanced Purification.
- Secs. 1508–1509 allow Naval Reactors funds for the Naval Examination Acquisition Project and Weapons Activities funds for domestic uranium enrichment, warhead assembly modernization, a subcritical-experimentation laboratory in Nevada, an analytic gas laboratory at Pantex, and a plutonium safety and quality building at Los Alamos.
Plain English
This title funds Western water work and nuclear-weapons and nonproliferation programs at set levels, cuts the DOE energy-projects account to zero, and steers existing money to specific dams, reservoirs, water-reuse projects, and nuclear-weapons facilities.
Title Summary
Title VI does not enact a full Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill. It adjusts a continuing resolution that otherwise carries forward fiscal year 2024 levels (division B of Public Law 118–47) under section 1101. The named changes cover the Election Assistance Commission, General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, the federal payment to the District of Columbia, and the Small Business Administration, and they zero or withhold several specified amounts.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Account in §204, division B, P.L. 118–47 (not named in this title) | $0 (replaces $13,045,000) | Prior-year amount is not funded |
| Account in §530, division B, P.L. 118–47 (not named in this title) | $0 (replaces $38,414,000) | Prior-year amount is not funded |
| Account in §542, division B, P.L. 118–47 (not named in this title) | $0 (replaces $116,541,000) | Prior-year amount is not funded |
| Election Assistance Commission—Election Security Grants | $15,000,000 | Election security grants |
| GSA—Federal Buildings Fund | $9,308,000,000 | Federal buildings fund, without specified prior-law limitations |
| — of which, buildings operations | $3,272,000,000 (replaces $2,951,184,000) | Operating federal buildings |
| National Archives—Repairs and Restoration | $8,000,000 | Repairs and restoration |
| Amount under that NARA heading in P.L. 118–47 | $0 (replaces $17,500,000) | Prior set amount under the heading is not applied |
| D.C.—Federal Payment for Emergency Planning and Security Costs | $90,000,000 | Emergency planning and security in the District of Columbia |
| — of which, January 2025 Presidential Inauguration | $50,000,000 | Inauguration-related security and planning costs |
| GSA—Pre-election Presidential Transition | No funds | Transition account is not funded by this Act |
| SBA—Disaster Loans Program Account | $406,000,000 | Small Business Administration disaster loans |
| — prior-law amount under that heading | $396,000,000 (replaces $165,000,000) | Higher amount applied from the FY2024 heading |
| — of §1101 funds under that heading, Stafford Act major disasters | $374,000,000 | Disaster-relief designation under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act |
Notable Sections
- §1601 eliminates three specified prior-year amounts ($13,045,000, $38,414,000, and $116,541,000). This title does not name those accounts.
- §1602 sets election-security grants at $15 million; raises the GSA buildings-operations figure to $3.272 billion and waives listed limitations on the Federal Buildings Fund; provides $8 million for National Archives repairs and restoration while zeroing a $17.5 million prior amount under that heading; and provides $90 million for D.C. emergency planning and security, including $50 million for the January 2025 inauguration.
- §1603 provides no funds for GSA pre-election presidential transition.
- §1604 sets SBA disaster loans at $406 million and designates $374 million of the continued funds as Stafford Act major-disaster relief.
- §1605 keeps §747 of the FY2024 FSGG act in effect through the date in §1106 by updating its year references (2023/2024/2025 become 2024/2025/2026) and a cross-reference. This title does not restate what §747 does.
- §1606 provides that §128 of the FY2024 FSGG act does not apply for fiscal year 2025. This title does not restate that section.
- §1607 extends the date in §302 of title III of Public Law 108–494 from December 31, 2024, to the date in §1106.
- §1608 lets OMB adjust FY2025 discretionary spending limits for estimating differences with the Congressional Budget Office, capped at 0.25 percent of the sum of the adjusted limits.
Plain English
Most financial-services and general-government programs keep last year’s funding, with set amounts for election security, federal building operations, D.C. inauguration security, archives repairs, and small-business disaster loans, while several specified accounts and pre-election transition funding get nothing.
Title Summary
Title VII sets specific fiscal year funding levels for major Department of Homeland Security operating and disaster accounts, overriding the bill’s general continuing-resolution baseline in section 1101. It covers U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and it also adjusts Secret Service language, rescinds unobligated balances, transfers infrastructure-law funds, and extends National Flood Insurance Program authorities.
Spending Breakdown
Specified account levels (sec. 1701)
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—Operations and Support | $9,986,542,000 | ICE operations and support |
| Transportation Security Administration—Operations and Support | $10,614,968,000 | TSA operations and support |
| Coast Guard—Operations and Support | $10,415,271,000 | Coast Guard operations and support |
| FEMA—Federal Assistance | $3,203,262,000 | FEMA federal assistance grants; each amount in paragraph (12) of the fiscal year 2024 heading is treated as $0 |
| FEMA—Disaster Relief Fund | $22,510,000,000 | Major disasters under the Stafford Act; designated as disaster relief under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act |
These five specified levels total $56,730,043,000. Other DHS accounts are not reset here and would follow the bill’s general funding rule.
Other dollar changes
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Secret Service—Operations and Support (adjustment) | $35,000,000 (replaces $24,000,000) | Raises a specified amount in prior-year heading language by $11,000,000 and updates the year reference from 2023 to 2024 |
| FEMA Federal Assistance transfer (sec. 1708) | $115,000,000 | Of the $3,203,262,000 above, this share is transferred from unobligated Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act balances and merged into that account |
| Sec. 1706 rescissions (10 accounts) | $29,575,000 | Cancels unobligated balances carried under section 505 of the fiscal year 2024 DHS appropriations act |
| DHS Nonrecurring Expenses Fund rescission | $133,000,000 | Cancels unobligated balances in that fund |
Sec. 1706 rescissions, by account
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Office of the Secretary and Executive Management—Operations and Support | $550,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| Management Directorate—Operations and Support | $1,497,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness—Operations and Support | $1,309,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| Office of Inspector General—Operations and Support | $102,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| Transportation Security Administration—Operations and Support | $15,823,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—Operations and Support | $4,321,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| FEMA—Operations and Support | $1,723,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services—Operations and Support | $2,514,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers—Operations and Support | $685,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
| Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office—Operations and Support | $1,051,000 | Rescission of unobligated balances |
Combined rescissions under sections 1706 and 1707 total $162,575,000.
Notable Sections
- Sec. 1701(4): For FEMA Federal Assistance, every dollar figure in paragraph (12) of the fiscal year 2024 heading is replaced with $0 for funds provided by this Act, eliminating those sub-allocations.
- Sec. 1701(5): The $22,510,000,000 Disaster Relief Fund amount is limited to major disasters and carries a statutory disaster-relief designation.
- Sec. 1702: Amends section 11223(b)(2) of the Don Young Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022 by changing “shall apply” to “shall not apply.”
- Sec. 1703: Suspends 10 U.S.C. § 517 as it applies to the Coast Guard for the period covered by this Act.
- Sec. 1704: Increases a specified Secret Service Operations and Support figure from $24,000,000 to $35,000,000 and updates the year from 2023 to 2024. This is not a new top-line for the entire account.
- Sec. 1705: Provides that section 227 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024, has no force or effect for fiscal year 2025.
- Secs. 1706–1707: Rescind $29,575,000 across ten components and $133,000,000 from the Nonrecurring Expenses Fund. No new programs are created.
- Sec. 1708: Derives $115,000,000 of the FEMA Federal Assistance level by transfer from unobligated Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act balances, and preserves prior emergency-requirement treatment of those funds.
- Sec. 1709: Extends National Flood Insurance Act borrowing and program authorities (42 U.S.C. §§ 4016(a) and 4026) by substituting the date in section 1106 of this Act for September 30, 2023. It takes effect on enactment, or is treated as effective March 14, 2025, if enactment is later.
Plain English
This title funds immigration enforcement, airport security, Coast Guard operations, and disaster aid at set multi-billion-dollar levels, keeps federal flood insurance authorities in place, and cancels about $163 million in unspent homeland security money.
Title Summary
Title VIII sets specific funding levels for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Indian Health Service, and the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, overriding the bill’s general continuation of prior-year funding (section 1101). It covers public-land management, parks, fish and wildlife, geologic surveys, Bureau of Indian Affairs programs, EPA science and environmental programs, state and tribal assistance grants, forestry, and wildland fire. It also provides Indian Health Service amounts, including funds that become available on October 1, 2025, and wildfire-suppression reserve authority.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| BLM — Management of Lands and Resources | $1,294,766,000 | Manage Bureau of Land Management lands and resources (replaces $1,294,916,000 in the referenced prior-year text) |
| FWS — Resource Management | $1,475,353,000 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service resource management |
| NPS — National Recreation and Preservation | $89,593,000 | National Park Service recreation and preservation programs |
| NPS — Historic Preservation Fund | $168,900,000 | Historic preservation grants and related fund activities |
| USGS — Surveys, Investigations, and Research | $1,450,197,000 | U.S. Geological Survey surveys, investigations, and research |
| BIA — Operation of Indian Programs | $1,897,709,000 | Bureau of Indian Affairs operation of Indian programs |
| EPA — Science and Technology | $756,073,000 | EPA science and technology |
| EPA — State and Tribal Assistance Grants | $4,380,245,000 | State and tribal assistance grants (with specified prior-year amounts zeroed out; see below) |
| Forest Service — State, Private, and Tribal Forestry | $283,500,000 | State, private, and tribal forestry |
| Forest Service — Capital Improvement and Maintenance | $151,000,000 | Forest Service capital improvement and maintenance |
| NPS — Operation of the National Park System | $2,894,424,000 | Operate the National Park System |
| Interior — Wildland Fire Management | $1,147,171,000 | Department-wide wildland fire management |
| EPA — Environmental Programs and Management | $3,195,028,000 | EPA environmental programs and management |
| Forest Service — Wildland Fire Management | $2,426,111,000 | Forest Service wildland fire management |
| IHS — Indian Health Services (specified portion) | $38,709,000 | Sets the level for the first appropriation under Indian Health Services |
| IHS — Indian Health Services (additional) | $38,709,000 | Additional appropriation, available October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027 |
| IHS — Indian Health Facilities (specified portion) | $3,920,000 | Sets the level for the first appropriation under Indian Health Facilities |
| IHS — Sanitation and Health Care Facilities Construction | $289,306,000 | Sanitation facilities construction and health care facilities construction |
| IHS — Indian Health Facilities (additional) | $3,920,000 | Additional appropriation, available October 1, 2025, until expended |
| Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation | $1,650,000 | Salaries and expenses, on FY2024 terms and conditions |
| Interior — Wildfire Suppression Operations Reserve Fund | $360,000,000 | Additional wildfire-suppression budget authority under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act cap adjustment |
| Forest Service — Wildfire Suppression Operations Reserve Fund | $2,390,000,000 | Additional wildfire-suppression budget authority under the same cap adjustment |
The first 14 rows are full account levels set notwithstanding section 1101. The Indian Health Service rows include both limited account levels and separate additional appropriations. The two reserve-fund amounts are designated cap-adjustment authority, not ordinary account levels. Section 1808 extends liquidation authority for older funds and does not appropriate a new dollar amount.
Notable Sections
- Earmark-style amounts not continued (Sec. 1801(8)). Within State and Tribal Assistance Grants, the bill substitutes $0 for $787,652,267, $0 for $631,659,905, and $0 for $38,693,000 from the FY2024 Interior bill (P.L. 118–42), and provides that a specified proviso in that heading does not apply. Those three figures total $1,458,005,172.
- EPA Science and Technology reallocations (Sec. 1801(7)). Applies the prior-year heading by substituting $17,500,000 for $19,530,000 and $0 for $2,030,000.
- Small BLM reduction (Sec. 1801(1)). The Management of Lands and Resources figure is $150,000 below the $1,294,916,000 figure it replaces.
- Indian Health Service facilities reduction (Sec. 1804). Substitutes $0 for $17,023,000 in a proviso under Indian Health Facilities, while setting construction funding at $289,306,000 and adding advance-style appropriations available starting October 1, 2025.
- House bill provisions enacted by reference (Sec. 1807). Enacts sections 456 and 457 of H.R. 8998 (118th Congress), the House-passed FY2025 Interior bill, as passed on July 24, 2024. Their text is not included here, so their policy effect cannot be determined from this title alone.
- Historic Preservation Fund liquidation extension (Sec. 1808). 2018 disaster-relief Historic Preservation Fund amounts (P.L. 115–123) that were available through FY2019 remain available through FY2026 only to liquidate valid obligations from FY2018 and FY2019. The extension is retroactive in application to September 30, 2024, and keeps the emergency designation.
- Date extension (Sec. 1809). Applies section 113 of division G of P.L. 113–76 by substituting “2025” for “2024.”
Plain English
This title funds national parks, public lands, wildlife and science programs, tribal and Indian health services, EPA environmental work, and wildfire suppression, while dropping more than $1.45 billion in specified project allocations carried in last year’s bill text.
Title Summary
Title IX does not write a full Labor-HHS-Education budget. It adjusts a continuing resolution that otherwise carries forward Division D of Public Law 118–47, changing specific accounts at the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, the Social Security Administration, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. It also rescinds some prior-year job-training funds, shifts Prevention and Public Health Fund dollars, and extends Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) authority.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| DOL — Bureau of Labor Statistics, Salaries and Expenses | $635,952,000 | Replaces $629,952,000 (+$6,000,000) |
| DOL — State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations (Unemployment Trust Fund) | $3,928,084,000 | Trust-fund spending level for state UI and employment-service administration |
| — specified amounts under that heading | $3,147,635,000 and $388,000,000 | Replace $3,141,635,000 and $382,000,000 (+$6,000,000 each) |
| — reemployment services and eligibility assessments | $271,000,000 | Extra budget authority counted under the statutory cap adjustment |
| HHS — CMS Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Account | $941,000,000 | Fraud and abuse control account level |
| — specified amounts under that heading | $699,058,000; $108,735,000; $133,207,000 | Replace $675,058,000; $107,735,000; $132,207,000 |
| — additional fraud-control budget authority | $630,000,000 | Cap adjustment for health care fraud and abuse control |
| SSA — Limitation on Administrative Expenses | $14,127,978,000 | Cap on Social Security administrative spending |
| — specified amount under that heading | $1,903,000,000 | Replaces $1,851,000,000 (+$52,000,000) |
| — additional program-integrity budget authority | $1,630,000,000 | Cap adjustment for SSA program integrity |
| SSA — third paragraph under that heading | $170,000,000 | Replaces $150,000,000 each place it appears (+$20,000,000) |
| DOL — Training and Employment Services (rescission) | $75,000,000 rescinded | Permanent rescission of prior-year funds for Oct. 1, 2024–Sept. 30, 2025 |
| HHS — NIH Innovation Account, CURES Act | $127,000,000 | Replaces $407,000,000 (−$280,000,000) |
| DOL — Training and Employment Services | $3,898,587,000 | Replaces $4,006,421,000; a $107,834,000 amount is set to $0 (related figure set at $969,255,000 instead of $1,077,089,000) |
| HHS — HRSA-Wide Activities and Program Support | $219,588,000 | Replaces $1,110,376,000; an $890,788,000 amount is set to $0 |
| HHS — SAMHSA Health Surveillance and Program Support | $138,155,000 | Replaces $210,245,000; a $72,090,000 amount is set to $0 |
| HHS — ACF Children and Families Services Programs | $14,789,089,000 | Replaces $14,829,100,000; a $40,011,000 amount is set to $0 |
| HHS — ACL Aging and Disability Services Programs | $2,435,832,000 | Replaces $2,465,100,000; a $29,268,000 amount is set to $0 |
| Education — Higher Education | $3,080,952,000 | Replaces $3,283,296,000; a $202,344,000 amount is set to $0 |
| CNCS — Payment to the National Service Trust | $235,000,000 | Replaces $243,000,000 (−$8,000,000); section is labeled as including a rescission |
| TANF and related Social Security Act programs | Such sums as necessary | Continues specified title IV-A activities and §1108(b) territorial grants at the FY2024 manner of authorization |
Notable Sections
- Sec. 1903 permanently rescinds $75,000,000 from prior-year Training and Employment Services funds.
- Sec. 1904 lets HHS collect per-candidate registration fees from Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network members during this period, credit them to the HRSA Health Systems account until expended, and distribute them among OPTN awardees.
- Sec. 1905 drops the NIH CURES Act Innovation Account from $407,000,000 to $127,000,000, matching that account’s scheduled lower year rather than continuing the prior-year figure.
- Sec. 1906 requires HHS, within 30 days, to transfer FY2025 Prevention and Public Health Fund money (Public Law 111–148, §4002) to the accounts, amounts, and activities listed in §222(a) of Division D of Public Law 118–47.
- Secs. 1907 and 1909 extend dates in two prior-year provisions, from 2026 to 2027 and from 2024 to 2026, respectively. This title does not restate what those sections cover.
- Sec. 1908 lowers six account totals by exactly the sums it sets to $0, so those specified prior-year amounts are not carried forward. The largest is $890,788,000 in HRSA-wide activities, followed by $202,344,000 in Higher Education and $107,834,000 in job training.
- Sec. 1912 continues TANF and related activities—excluding the contingency fund (§403(c)) and the child care entitlement (§418)—plus territorial grants under §1108(b), through the date in §1106, with no fixed dollar cap.
Plain English
Labor, health, education, and Social Security offices keep operating under last year’s funding, with more money for unemployment administration, Medicare fraud control, and Social Security processing, while some prior-year set-asides are dropped and basic cash-assistance authority is extended.
Title Summary
Title X sets specific funding levels for Legislative Branch accounts, overriding the default levels in section 1101. It covers Senate contingent expenses, House of Representatives salaries and office accounts, and joint items: the Office of the Attending Physician, Capitol Police salaries, and several Architect of the Capitol building and grounds accounts.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Senate—Inquiries and Investigations | $189,200,000 | Senate contingent expenses for inquiries and investigations |
| Senate—Senators’ Official Personnel and Office Expense Account | $607,400,000 | Senators’ official staff and office expenses |
| House—Salaries and Expenses | $1,878,346,000 | House salaries and expenses |
| House—Members’ Representational Allowances | $850,000,000 | Allowances for Members’ representational expenses |
| House—Salaries, Officers and Employees | $320,227,000 | Pay for House officers and employees |
| — of which, Office of the Sergeant at Arms | $34,141,000 | Level under that heading for the Sergeant at Arms (not an added amount) |
| House—Modernization Initiatives Account | $2,000,000 | House modernization initiatives |
| Office of the Attending Physician | $4,292,000 | Joint medical office for Congress |
| Capitol Police—Salaries | $603,627,000 | Capitol Police pay; $15,000,000 solely for tuition reimbursement and recruitment- and retention-related salary items |
| Architect of the Capitol—Capitol Building | $48,688,000 | Capitol Building; $6,599,000 available until Sept. 30, 2029, and $10,000,000 until expended |
| Architect of the Capitol—Capitol Grounds | $21,600,000 | Capitol grounds; $7,000,000 available until Sept. 30, 2029 |
| Architect of the Capitol—House Office Buildings | $146,174,000 | House office buildings; $61,610,000 available until Sept. 30, 2029, and $10,500,000 until expended |
| Architect of the Capitol—Capitol Power Plant | $123,850,000 | Capitol Power Plant; $11,000,000 available until Sept. 30, 2029 |
| Architect of the Capitol—Library Buildings and Grounds | $64,978,000 | Library buildings and grounds; $27,800,000 available until Sept. 30, 2029 |
Notable Sections
- Secs. 11001–11003 each begin “Notwithstanding section 1101,” replacing the Act’s default account levels with the amounts above.
- Capitol Police proviso: $15,000,000 of the salary appropriation may be used only for tuition reimbursement and recruitment- and retention-focused salary items.
- Multi-year money: Portions of Architect of the Capitol accounts remain available until September 30, 2029, or until expended, rather than expiring with the fiscal year.
- Library Buildings and Grounds: Language following the date “September 20, 2028” in the underlying provision does not apply.
- The title sets account levels only. It does not create a new program or include a policy restriction beyond those availability and earmark conditions.
Plain English
This title funds Congress’s own operations—member and staff offices, Capitol Police, the Capitol physician, and maintenance of Capitol buildings, grounds, and the power plant—at specified amounts instead of the bill’s default levels.
Title Summary
Title XI sets account levels for Department of Defense military construction and family housing, overriding the baseline in section 1101 of this Act, and provides Department of Veterans Affairs advance appropriations for fiscal year 2026 plus additional benefit and toxic-exposure funding. It covers active-duty, Guard, and Reserve construction accounts; family-housing construction and operation; the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and VA medical care, compensation, readjustment benefits, insurance, and the Cost of War Toxic Exposure Fund. Several sections also extend, suspend, or waive provisions of the prior Military Construction–VA appropriations act (Public Law 118–42).
Spending Breakdown
Military construction (Sec. 11101) — levels applied notwithstanding section 1101:
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Military Construction, Army | $2,236,357,000 | Army facility construction |
| Military Construction, Navy and Marine Corps | $4,159,399,000 | Navy and Marine Corps construction |
| Military Construction, Air Force | $3,347,126,000 | Air Force construction |
| Military Construction, Defense-Wide | $3,881,383,000 | Defense-wide construction |
| Military Construction, Army National Guard | $398,489,000 | Army Guard construction |
| Military Construction, Air National Guard | $290,492,000 | Air Guard construction |
| Military Construction, Army Reserve | $295,032,000 | Army Reserve construction |
| Military Construction, Navy Reserve | $29,829,000 | Navy Reserve construction |
| Military Construction, Air Force Reserve | $74,663,000 | Air Force Reserve construction |
| Sec. 11101 subtotal | $14,712,770,000 |
Family housing construction (Sec. 11102):
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Family Housing Construction, Army | $276,647,000 | Build or improve Army family housing |
| Family Housing Construction, Navy and Marine Corps | $245,742,000 | Build or improve Navy/Marine family housing |
| Family Housing Construction, Air Force | $221,549,000 | Build or improve Air Force family housing |
| Family Housing Improvement Fund | $8,195,000 | Housing improvement fund |
| Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund | $497,000 | Unaccompanied housing improvement fund |
| Sec. 11102 subtotal | $752,630,000 |
Family housing operation and maintenance (Sec. 11103):
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Family Housing O&M, Army | $485,611,000 | Operate and maintain Army family housing |
| Family Housing O&M, Navy and Marine Corps | $387,217,000 | Operate and maintain Navy/Marine family housing |
| Family Housing O&M, Air Force | $336,250,000 | Operate and maintain Air Force family housing |
| Family Housing O&M, Defense-Wide | $52,156,000 | Operate and maintain defense-wide family housing |
| Sec. 11103 subtotal | $1,261,234,000 |
Related agencies (Sec. 11107):
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund (from Treasury general fund) | $31,000,000 | Finish renovation of the Sheridan Building, AFRH–Washington, D.C.; available until expended |
VA fiscal year 2026 levels (Sec. 11109), notwithstanding section 1112. Items (1)–(6) become available October 1, 2025:
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Medical Services | $75,039,000,000 | VA medical services; $2,000,000,000 available until Sept. 30, 2027 |
| Medical Community Care | $34,000,000,000 | Care purchased in the community; $2,000,000,000 available until Sept. 30, 2027 |
| Medical Support and Compliance | $12,700,000,000 | Medical administration and compliance; $350,000,000 available until Sept. 30, 2027 |
| Medical Facilities | $9,700,000,000 | VA medical facility costs; $500,000,000 available until Sept. 30, 2027 |
| Compensation and Pensions | $227,240,071,000 | Disability compensation and pensions; available until expended |
| Readjustment Benefits | $20,372,030,000 | Education and readjustment benefits; available until expended |
| Veterans Insurance and Indemnities | $131,518,000 | Insurance and indemnity payments; available until expended. Set as an FY2026 level; the text does not add the Oct. 1, 2025 availability clause used for the six items above |
| Sec. 11109 subtotal | $379,182,619,000 |
Additional VA appropriations (Sec. 11110), on top of amounts in this or other Acts; available until expended:
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Compensation and Pensions | $30,242,064,000 | Additional compensation and pension funding |
| Readjustment Benefits | $4,864,566,000 | Additional readjustment-benefit funding |
| Cost of War Toxic Exposure Fund | $6,000,000,000 | Toxic-exposure-related costs |
| Sec. 11110 subtotal | $41,106,630,000 |
Dollar amounts stated in the title total $437,046,883,000. That figure mixes construction and housing levels under this Act, a $31 million retirement-home payment, FY2026 VA advance levels, and additional VA appropriations; it is not a single-year appropriation.
Notable Sections
- Sec. 11104 extends section 126 of division A of Public Law 118–42 so it covers fiscal years 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, instead of only 2017–2019. This title does not restate what section 126 does.
- Sec. 11105 provides that sections 124, 128 through 137, 259, and 260 of division A of Public Law 118–42 do not apply for fiscal year 2025.
- Sec. 11106 waives section 123 of that act, and the same restriction in earlier Defense military-construction acts, for unobligated prior-year Military Construction, Army balances, and allows those balances to be obligated for an access road at Arlington National Cemetery. No project dollar amount is stated.
- Sec. 11107 is a discrete $31,000,000 payment into the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the Sheridan Building renovation, available until expended. It does not create a new program.
- Sec. 11108 provides that listed provisos in title I of division A of Public Law 118–42 do not apply to funds in this Act. The excluded provisos sit under Military Construction for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, Defense-Wide, Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, and Air Force Reserve.
- Secs. 11109–11110 do not create new programs. They set the usual VA advance-appropriation structure for FY2026 medical care and benefits and add $6,000,000,000 for the existing Cost of War Toxic Exposure Fund, plus $30,242,064,000 more for compensation and pensions and $4,864,566,000 more for readjustment benefits.
Plain English
This title funds military base construction and housing for service members and their families, pays for a D.C. retirement-home renovation and an Arlington cemetery access road, and locks in next year’s veterans’ health care and benefit payments, including extra money for toxic-exposure costs.
Title XII adjusts how last year’s State and foreign-operations appropriations law (Division F of Public Law 118–47) applies under this Act. It does not restate the full Department of State/foreign aid budget. It sets a handful of account levels, changes rescissions, drops three prior-year provisions, and extends several authorities.
Title Summary
This title covers the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs by modifying the continuing application of P.L. 118–47. Named items include the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the State Office of Inspector General, the International Boundary and Water Commission (U.S. and Mexico), international peacekeeping contributions, Treasury debt restructuring, the Asian Development Fund, and the Commission on Reform and Modernization of the Department of State. It also extends refugee, Afghan special-immigrant, Israel loan-guarantee, and excess-defense-article authorities.
Spending Breakdown
Amounts below are the figures written into this title (new levels or changed rescissions), not a complete State/foreign-operations budget.
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities | $1,234,144,000 | U.S. contributions for international peacekeeping |
| International Boundary and Water Commission—Construction | $78,000,000 | Construction account level (replaces $156,050,000) |
| IBWC Construction, first proviso | $15,000,000 | Proviso amount within that account (replaces $5,000,000) |
| Prior-year §7041(d) funding level | $450,300,000 | Substituted level for that carried-forward provision (replaces $725,300,000) |
| Contribution to the Asian Development Fund | $43,610,000 | U.S. contribution to the Asian Development Fund |
| Office of Inspector General | up to $24,835,000 | Caps the referenced OIG amount by inserting “up to” |
| Department of the Treasury—Debt Restructuring | $10,000,000 | Debt-restructuring account level |
| §7075(c) (rescissions section) | $65,000,000 | Substituted amount in the prior-year rescissions section (replaces $50,000,000) |
| §7075(e) (rescissions section) | $375,000,000 | Substituted amount in the prior-year rescissions section (replaces $902,340,000) |
| Debt Restructuring unobligated balances | $111,000,000 rescinded | Cancels unobligated balances from prior debt-restructuring appropriations |
| Commission on Reform and Modernization of the Department of State | $0 | Sets that commission’s account level at zero |
Notable Sections
- Sec. 11204 zeroes out the Commission on Reform and Modernization of the Department of State and locks in the peacekeeping, debt-restructuring, and Asian Development Fund levels above.
- Sec. 11203 cuts the IBWC construction level from $156,050,000 to $78,000,000 while raising the first-proviso figure from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000.
- Sec. 11205 makes three provisions of title VII of Division F of P.L. 118–47 inapplicable to funds in this Act: §§7004(e), 7034(r), and 7045(l)(2). This title does not restate what those provisions say.
- Sec. 11206 lowers the §7041(d) level by $275,000,000 (from $725,300,000 to $450,300,000), updates several dates, and designates amounts under the §7068(b) extension as an emergency requirement under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act.
- Sec. 11207 rewrites rescission levels and rescinds $111,000,000 in unobligated debt-restructuring balances.
- Sec. 11208 extends, through 2025, certain refugee-admission and adjustment authorities (including the Lautenberg provisions in P.L. 101–167) and the Afghan Allies Protection Act special-immigrant authority; extends Israel loan-guarantee authority from September 30, 2029, to September 30, 2030; and extends excess defense article authority under 22 U.S.C. 2321h through 2027.
- Sec. 11201 only extends Millennium Challenge Corporation proviso dates from December 31, 2024, to December 31, 2025. No dollar change.
Plain English
Diplomacy and foreign-aid programs keep running under last year’s funding law, with some accounts cut or rescinded, peacekeeping set at about $1.23 billion, and extra time added for certain Afghan visa, refugee, and related authorities.
Title Summary
Title XIII sets account-level exceptions to the bill’s general funding baseline (section 1101) for the Department of Transportation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Transportation Safety Board. It fixes dollar amounts for selected aviation, highway, rail, transit, port, community development, and rental-assistance accounts, and aligns certain Highway Trust Fund and Airport and Airway Trust Fund obligation limits with contract authority already provided in prior law.
Spending Breakdown
| Line Item | Amount | Purpose |
| DOT—Office of the Secretary—Transportation Planning, Research, and Development | $20,926,000 | Transportation planning, research, and development |
| DOT—FAA—Facilities and Equipment | $3,176,250,000 | FAA facilities and equipment |
| DOT—FAA—Airport Improvement Program | $50,000,000 | Airport improvement grants |
| DOT—FHWA—Highway Infrastructure Programs | $340,500,000 | Highway infrastructure |
| DOT—FRA—Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements | $100,000,000 | Rail infrastructure and safety improvements |
| DOT—FTA—Transit Infrastructure Grants | $45,568,868 | Transit infrastructure grants |
| DOT—MARAD—Port Infrastructure Development Program | $50,000,000 | Port infrastructure development |
| HUD—Community Planning and Development—Community Development Fund | $3,430,000,000 | Community development |
| DOT—Office of the Secretary—Payments to Air Carriers (Airport and Airway Trust Fund) | $450,000,000 | Payments to air carriers |
| DOT—FAA—Operations (Airport and Airway Trust Fund) | $13,482,783,000 | FAA operations; at least $1,832,078,000 for aviation safety and at least $10,105,678,000 for air traffic organization |
| DOT—FAA—Facilities and Equipment (Airport and Airway Trust Fund), fourth number under that heading | $45,150,000 | Specified facilities-and-equipment amount within that heading |
| HUD—Public and Indian Housing—Tenant-Based Rental Assistance | $32,041,000,000 | Tenant-based rental assistance; $32,145,124,000 is the amount available under paragraph (1) |
| HUD—Housing Programs—Project-Based Rental Assistance | $16,490,000,000 | Project-based rental assistance |
| HUD—Housing Programs—Housing for the Elderly | $931,400,000 | Housing for the elderly |
| HUD—Housing Programs—Housing for Persons with Disabilities | $256,700,000 | Housing for persons with disabilities |
| National Transportation Safety Board—Salaries and Expenses | $145,000,000 | NTSB salaries and expenses |
Section 11302 does not state new dollar amounts. It sets obligation and liquidation limits for FHWA, FMCSA, NHTSA, and FTA Highway Trust Fund accounts equal to FY2025 contract authority in specified sections of Public Law 117–58, and sets the FAA Grants-in-Aid for Airports limit equal to contract authority in section 101(a) of Public Law 118–63.
Notable Sections
- Sec. 11303(2) reserves minimum shares of FAA Operations for aviation safety ($1,832,078,000) and air traffic organization ($10,105,678,000).
- Sec. 11303(4) lets HUD use specified amounts from division F of Public Law 118–42 for purposes in subparagraphs (1)(D) and (4)(B) of the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance heading.
- Sec. 11304 provides that four prior provisions do not apply: paragraph (3) under FAA Grants-in-Aid for Airports, and provisos under MARAD’s Maritime Security Program, Tanker Security Program, and Ship Disposal headings.
- Sec. 11305 lets the HUD Secretary move funds available under paragraph (5) of Homeless Assistance Grants to the Continuum of Care program under paragraph (2) of that heading.
Plain English
This title keeps money flowing for air traffic control and aviation safety, selected highway, rail, transit, and port projects, community development, and rental aid for low-income tenants, seniors, and people with disabilities, including authority to shift some homeless-assistance funds into Continuum of Care.