Posted on 01/06/2026 9:09:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have unveiled a new spending bill totaling at least $174 billion that could get a vote in the House of Representatives as early as this week.
It’s a significant step toward avoiding another government shutdown come Jan. 30, the deadline congressional leaders set after ending the recent 43-day shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — in November.
The legislation released on Monday is a package of three of the 12 annual spending bills that Congress is charged with passing: commerce, justice, science and related agencies; energy and water development and related agencies; and interior, environment and related agencies.
Senior Republicans and Democrats both signaled support for the bill, which was expected after it was created as the result of bipartisan discussions between the Senate and House Appropriations Committees.
"This bipartisan, bicameral package reflects steady progress toward completing FY26 funding responsibly. It invests in priorities crucial to the American people: making our communities safer, supporting affordable and reliable energy, and responsibly managing vital resources," House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said in a statement. "It also delivers critical community projects nationwide, along with investments in water infrastructure, ports, and flood control that protect localities and keep commerce moving."
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the panel, said the bill "is a forceful rejection of draconian cuts to public services proposed by the Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress" that is free of what she called "Republican poison pill" provisions.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said its release is a step toward avoiding a "bloated omnibus bill" and would "spend less than another continuing resolution" in an apparent bid to ease conservative fiscal hawks’ concerns.
Two of those fiscal hawks, Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., sit on the House Rules Committee,
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Here are (for me ), the key sentences to this article:
“While the last shutdown originated in the Senate, it appears that Senate Democrats are willing to play nice with Republicans ahead of the deadline.”
“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said ahead of Congress’ holiday break that Democrats’ goal was to complete the remaining slate of funding bills by the Jan. 30 deadline and noted that “we want to get through the process.”
Given that the latest package is a bicameral, bipartisan product, Senate Democrats are likely to support it.
Advancing the package in the Senate would go a long way toward funding the government but still falls short of the entire list of a dozen bills needed to fund the government. And there are still some more difficult spending bills lurking in the background, like defense, which Democrats rejected during the shutdown.
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Looks like there is not appetite for another shutdown fight this time.
Edit to add:
Because Congress already passed several full‑year funding bills in November, even a failure to pass the remaining bills would not cause a full shutdown.
This reduces the political risk dramatically.
We could stop all this by Congress passing an authentic Constitutional budget.
RINOs gonna charge. Here comes the amnesty that Trump teased last year:
If it passes which I doubt it will, I expect it will happen on 30 January around midnight so both sides can claim victory.
But I’m expecting another shutdown.
Tells me everything I need to know about this thing.
Thune, asleep at the wheel. Hope Congress does a hatchet job on it.
> Tells me everything I need to know about this thing.<
Nah. It is her providing cover for deMS-13s to vote for it. She knows how badly the public viewed them during the last shutdown and don’t want that to happen again.
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