Committee Takes Proactive Step to Prevent Partisan Shutdown, Protect Full-Year Funding Process
With all twelve FY27 appropriations bills advanced through the full committee and three passed across the floor, the House is taking the next responsible step to ensure government operations remain unimpeded in the fall as work toward full-year funding continues.
Washington, D.C. – After Senate Democrats drove the two longest government shutdowns in American history, they are once again obstructing the constitutional funding process by refusing to advance a single FY27 appropriations bill in the upper chamber.
While the House has advanced all twelve FY27 appropriations bills through the full committee and passed three full-year measures across the floor, Senate inaction puts that progress at risk. Rather than waiting until the final weeks before the September 30th funding deadline, the Committee is acting early by introducing the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027 to ensure stable government operations, preserve the House's FY27 progress, and provide certainty as work toward full-year funding continues.
Chairman Tom Cole said, "The House has spent months doing the work the American people sent us here to do – holding hearings, advancing every appropriations bill through committee, and moving full-year funding measures on the floor. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Senate Democrats, who won’t even allow markups to progress on the other side of the Capitol. The September deadline isn't changing, but how Congress plans for it can. This bill takes partisan politics and posturing off the table, denying anyone the opportunity to manufacture leverage from the calendar before elections. This short-term, clean stopgap prevents harmful disruptions to our national security and the vital programs our constituents rely on at the end of September, allowing for runway in the closing months of the 119th Congress.”
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027
Proactive Funding Extension Protects Against Shutdown, While Allowing FY27 Work Continuity
Key Takeaways
- This is a clean and straightforward continuing resolution (CR) – free of poison pills – that simply extends government funding until December 4, 2026.
- Crucial programs are extended in their current form through the duration of the CR, including SNAP, WIC, TANF, National Flood Insurance, wildfire suppression efforts, disaster relief fund, small business support, livestock reporting programs, and more.
- Moving early to prevent a partisan shutdown fight in September spares the American people from unnecessary uncertainty, disruption, and political brinkmanship.
- Republicans have been clear of their consistent support of a transparent, orderly approach to funding the government.
- Work on passing full-year FY27 appropriations bills is not halted by advancing this stopgap, it just ensures the threat of a shutdown is removed from the equation while full-year appropriations continue.
- Senate Democrats have prevented any FY27 appropriations movement in the upper chamber, reiterating their abandonment of Article I and regular order.
- House Republicans do not support end-of-the-year, pork-filled omnibuses.
- House Republican Appropriators have consistently acted to uphold our constitutional duties, protect Article I, and safeguard the American people from partisan shutdowns:
- The House passed all FY26 appropriations bills out of full committee and across the floor.
- The House voted multiple times to both prevent – and end – previous Democrat shutdowns instigated by Senator Chuck Schumer.
- All FY27 House appropriations bills have been reported out of the full committee.
- Three full-year FY27 House bills have passed across the floor, with bipartisan support.
- The House Appropriations Committee is holding a hearing – Funding Lapses: Analyzing Shutdown Reform – to reiterate their attention and commitment to examining and preventing unnecessary funding disruptions.
- Bottom line: This legislation prevents a September 30th funding lapse while preserving the path to full-year appropriations.
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