Overview
- The package totals roughly $153 billion, including about $133 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs and around $20 billion for military construction.
- It is coupled with a stopgap measure that would keep the rest of government funded at fiscal 2025 levels through Jan. 30 to end the 40-day shutdown.
- The Senate advanced the plan in a 60-40 vote that included several Democrats and an independent joining Republicans, and the House is set to consider it after returning from recess.
- The continuing resolution guarantees backpay for furloughed federal employees, cancels more than 4,000 shutdown-issued layoffs, and blocks additional reductions in force through January.
- The bills fully fund SNAP, raise WIC to $8.2 billion, increase Capitol Police and member-security funding while freezing lawmaker pay, and add VA staffing and Veterans Crisis Line requirements alongside major shipyard and base infrastructure investments.