Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026

What this does

This bill is the Senate's alternative stopgap funding measure, and it has two divisions. Division A would have continued fiscal year 2025 appropriations at fiscal year 2025 rates through October 31, 2025, and added money for House, Senate, and Capitol Police security. Division B is a package of extensions and other matters: one month of funding for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, teaching health centers, special diabetes programs, Medicare, Medicaid and human services authorities, and a long list of veterans, agriculture, transportation, cybersecurity and development authorities. Division B also changes health law permanently. It repeals subtitle B of title VII of the 2025 reconciliation act and applies the law as if that subtitle had never been enacted, and it strikes the 400 percent of poverty ceiling on eligibility for the premium tax credit and rewrites the credit's applicable percentage table for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025. The extension list is longer than a summary can lay out in full; the section by section detail is in the bill text. The Senate rejected it 47 to 53 on reconsideration, so none of it took effect.