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.

Senate vote · 47-53

Democrats

45-0

Republicans

0-53

Independents

2-0

How we know · 10 sourced claims

Section 2 divides the Act into Division A, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026, and Division B, Extensions and Other Matters.Source: Secs. 1 and 2 (Short title; Table of contents)
Division A continues funding for projects and activities that were conducted in fiscal year 2025, at the rate for operations provided for fiscal year 2025.Source: Division A, Sec. 101
That funding would run until October 31, 2025, or until the applicable fiscal year 2026 appropriation is enacted, whichever comes first.Source: Division A, Sec. 106(3)
Section 160 appropriates an additional $90,000,000 for the House Sergeant at Arms for enhanced Member security programs, $66,500,000 for the Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, and $30,000,000 for United States Capitol Police mutual aid reimbursements.Source: Division A, Sec. 160
Division B extends funding for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, and teaching health centers that operate graduate medical education programs for the period beginning October 1, 2025 and ending October 31, 2025.Source: Division B, Title I, Subtitle A, Sec. 2101
Division B repeals subtitle B of title VII of Public Law 119-21, the 2025 reconciliation act, and provides that any law or regulation referred to in that subtitle be applied as if the subtitle and its amendments had not been enacted.Source: Division B, Title I, Subtitle E, Sec. 2141 (Repeal of health subtitle changes)
Division B strikes the words but does not exceed 400 percent from the premium tax credit eligibility provision at section 36B(c)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code and replaces the applicable percentage table at section 36B(b)(3)(A). The amendments apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.Source: Division B, Title I, Subtitle E, Sec. 2142 (Permanent extension of enhanced tax credit)
Division B extends authorities including the Defense Production Act of 1950, the National Cybersecurity Protection System, the state and local cybersecurity grant program, cybersecurity information sharing, and the United States International Development Finance Corporation, each through October 31, 2025.Source: Division B, Title III (Miscellaneous extensions), Secs. 2305, 2309, 2310, 2311, 2313
Division B keeps its own budgetary effects off the statutory PAYGO scorecards and off the Senate PAYGO scorecards.Source: Division B, Title IV, Sec. 2401 (Budgetary effects)
The Senate did not pass the bill. On September 30, 2025, on reconsideration, it failed 47 to 53 under an order requiring 60 votes in the affirmative. An earlier vote on September 19, 2025 also failed, 47 to 45, under the same order.Source: Senate roll calls, Record Vote 534 (2025-09-30) and Record Vote 527 (2025-09-19)

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Reported lobbying

At least

organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.

A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 156 quarterly reports filed by 9 lobbying firms and by 37 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position (a filer may describe one in its own words), so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking

SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, INC. .
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 66 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. Our copy holds 2 fewer filings for 2025 Q4 and 7 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.

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