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FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS AND EXTENSIONS ACT, 2025

Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 211, I call up
the bill (H.R. 1968) making further continuing appropriations and other
extensions for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other
purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 211, the
amendment printed in House Report 119-15 is adopted, and the bill, as
amended, is considered read.
The text of the bill, as amended, is as follows:

H.R. 1968

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Full-Year Continuing
Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025''.

SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.

DIVISION A--FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025

TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II--AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,
AND RELATED AGENCIES

TITLE III--COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES

TITLE IV--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

TITLE V--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES

TITLE VI--FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

TITLE VII--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

TITLE VIII--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES

TITLE IX--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND
EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

TITLE X--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

TITLE XI--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES

TITLE XII--DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED
PROGRAMS

TITLE XIII--TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES

DIVISION B--HEALTH

TITLE I--PUBLIC HEALTH EXTENDERS

Sec. 2101. Extension for community health centers, National Health
Service Corps, and teaching health centers that operate
GME programs.
Sec. 2102. Extension of special diabetes programs.
Sec. 2103. National health security extensions.

TITLE II--MEDICARE

Sec. 2201. Extension of increased inpatient hospital payment adjustment
for certain low-volume hospitals.
Sec. 2202. Extension of the Medicare-dependent hospital (MDH) program.
Sec. 2203. Extension of add-on payments for ambulance services.
Sec. 2204. Extension of funding for quality measure endorsement, input,
and selection.
Sec. 2205. Extension of funding outreach and assistance for low-income
programs.
Sec. 2206. Extension of the work geographic index floor.
Sec. 2207. Extension of certain telehealth flexibilities.
Sec. 2208. Extending acute hospital care at home waiver authorities.
Sec. 2209. Extension of temporary inclusion of authorized oral
antiviral drugs as covered part D drugs.
Sec. 2210. Medicare improvement fund.
Sec. 2211. Medicare sequestration.

TITLE III--HUMAN SERVICES

Sec. 2301. Sexual risk avoidance education extension.
Sec. 2302. Personal responsibility education extension.
Sec. 2303. Extension of funding for family-to-family health information
centers.

TITLE IV--MEDICAID

Sec. 2401. Delaying Medicaid DSH reductions.

DIVISION C--OTHER MATTERS

Sec. 3101. Commodity futures trading commission whistleblower program.

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Sec. 3102. Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned
aircraft.
Sec. 3103. Additional special assessment.
Sec. 3104. National cybersecurity protection system authorization.
Sec. 3105. Extension of temporary order for fentanyl-related
substances.
Sec. 3106. Budgetary effects.

SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to
``this Act'' contained in any division of this Act shall be
treated as referring only to the provisions of that division.

DIVISION A--FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025

The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of
applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds,
for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and
other organizational units of Government for fiscal year
2025, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 1101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at the
level specified in subsection (c) and under the authority and
conditions provided in applicable appropriations Acts for
fiscal year 2024, for projects or activities (including the
costs of direct loans and loan guarantees) that are not
otherwise specifically provided for, and for which
appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available
in the following appropriations Acts:
(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
(division B of Public Law 118-42).
(2) The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2024 (division C of Public Law 118-42),
except section 510 shall be applied by substituting
``$1,900,000,000'' for ``$1,353,000,000'', except section
521(a)(1) shall be applied by substituting ``$30,000,000''
for ``$35,000,000'', except section 521(a)(4) shall be
applied by substituting ``$9,560,000,000'' for
``$12,440,000,000'', except section 521(b)(3) shall be
applied by substituting ``$15,000,000'' for ``$5,000,000'',
except section 521(b)(4) shall be applied by substituting
``$125,000,000'' for ``$120,000,000'', except section
521(b)(5) shall be applied by substituting ``$20,000,000''
for ``$15,000,000'', except section 521(c)(1) shall be
applied by substituting ``$300,000,000'' for
``$131,572,000'', except section 521(c)(2) shall be applied
by substituting ``$250,000,000'' for ``$500,000,000'', except
section 521(f) shall be applied by inserting `` or title II
of division C of Public Law 118-42'' after ``117-328'', and
except sections 222, 521(a)(2), 521(a)(3), 521(a)(5),
521(b)(1), and 521(b)(2).
(3) The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024
(division A of Public Law 118-47).
(4) The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2024 (division D of Public Law 118-42),
except the third proviso under the heading ``Corps of
Engineers--Civil--Construction'', and except sections 307,
311, and 312.
(5) The Financial Services and General Government
Appropriations Act, 2024 (division B of Public Law 118-47),
except section 635 shall be applied by substituting
``$400,000,000'' for ``$387,500,000'', except the last
proviso under the heading ``Federal Payment for Defender
Services in District of Columbia Courts'' shall be applied by
substituting ``$12,000,000'' for ``$25,000,000'', and except
sections 636, 637, 638, and 639.
(6) The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act,
2024 (division C of Public Law 118-47), except sections 543
through 546, and including sections 102 through 105 of title
I of division G of Public Law 118-47.
(7) The Department of the Interior, Environment, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (division E of
Public Law 118-42), except the fourth and fifth paragraphs
under the heading ``National Park Service--Administrative
Provisions'', except the eighteenth proviso under the first
paragraph under the heading ``Environmental Protection
Agency--State and Tribal Assistance Grants'', and except
sections 446 through 448.
(8) The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
(division D of Public Law 118-47), except section 240 shall
be applied by substituting ``$1,471,000,000'' for
``$1,250,000,000'' and by substituting ``2025, except that no
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were previously
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency
requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985'' for ``2024'' in such section, except sections 241 and
310, except the amount included in section 528 shall be
applied by substituting ``$13,059,000,000'' for
``$14,224,000,000'', and except the amount included in
section 529 shall be applied by substituting ``$160,000,000''
for ``$4,309,000,000''.
(9) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2024
(division E of Public Law 118-47), except the matter under
the heading ``Joint Items, Joint Congressional Committee on
Inaugural Ceremonies of 2025'', and including section 7 in
the matter preceding division A of Public Law 118-47.
(10) The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (division A of
Public Law 118-42), except the second provisos under the
headings ``Veterans Health Administration, Medical
Services'', ``Veterans Health Administration, Medical
Community Care'', and ``Veterans Health Administration,
Medical Support and Compliance''.
(11) The Department of State, Foreign Operations, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 (division F of
Public Law 118-47), except sections 7074(e) and 7075(a).
(12) The Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (division F of
Public Law 118-42), except sections 108, 109B, 119G, 125,
154, 165, 171, and 236.
(b) For purposes of this division, the term ``level'' means
an amount.
(c) The level referred to in subsection (a) shall be the
amounts appropriated in the appropriations Acts referred to
in such subsection, including transfers and obligation
limitations.
Sec. 1102. Appropriations made by section 1101 shall be
available to the extent and in the manner that would be
provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
Sec. 1103. Appropriations provided by this division that,
in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2024,
carried a multiple-year or no-year period of availability
shall retain a comparable period of availability.
Sec. 1104. No appropriation or funds made available or
authority granted pursuant to section 1101 shall be used to
initiate or resume any project or activity for which
appropriations, funds, or other authority were specifically
prohibited during fiscal year 2024.
Sec. 1105. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
division, the requirements, authorities, conditions,
limitations, and other provisions of the appropriations Acts
referred to in section 1101 shall continue in effect through
the date specified in section 1106.
Sec. 1106. Unless otherwise provided for in this division
or in the applicable appropriations Act, appropriations and
funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this
division shall be available through September 30, 2025.
Sec. 1107. Expenditures made pursuant to the Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2025 (Public Law 118-83) shall be charged
to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization
provided by this division.
Sec. 1108. Funds appropriated by this division may be
obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public
Law 91-672 (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680),
section 313 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act,
Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and section
504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.
3094(a)(1)).
Sec. 1109. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory
payments whose budget authority was provided in
appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2024, and for activities
under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, the levels
established by section 1101 shall be the amounts necessary to
maintain program levels under current law and under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable
appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2024.
(b) In addition to the amounts otherwise provided by
section 1101, the following amounts shall be available for
the following accounts for advance payments for the first
quarter of fiscal year 2026:
(1) ``Department of Labor--Office of Workers' Compensation
Programs--Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners'', for
benefit payments under title IV of the Federal Mine Safety
and Health Act of 1977, $6,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
(2) ``Department of Health and Human Services--Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services--Grants to States for
Medicaid'', for payments to States or in the case of section
1928 on behalf of States under title XIX of the Social
Security Act, $261,063,820,000, to remain available until
expended.
(3) ``Department of Health and Human Services--
Administration for Children and Families--Payments to States
for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support Programs'',
for payments to States or other non-Federal entities under
titles I, IV-D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security
Act and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9),
$1,600,000,000, to remain available until expended.
(4) ``Department of Health and Human Services--
Administration for Children and Families--Payments for Foster
Care and Permanency'', for payments to States or other non-
Federal entities under title IV-E of the Social Security Act,
$3,600,000,000.
(5) ``Social Security Administration--Supplemental Security
Income Program'', for benefit payments under title XVI of the
Social Security Act, $22,100,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
Sec. 1110. (a) Each amount incorporated by reference in
this Act that was previously designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
or as being for disaster relief pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D) of such Act is designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
such Act or as being for disaster relief pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D) of such Act, respectively.
(b) Section 6 of Public Laws 118-42 and 118-47 and section
11206(4) of this Act shall apply to amounts designated in
subsection (a).
(c) Each amount incorporated by reference in this Act that
was previously designated in division B of Public Law 117-
159, division J of Public Law 117-58, or in section 443(b) of
division G of Public Law 117-328 by the Congress

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as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent
resolution on the budget shall continue to be treated as an
amount specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public
Law 118-5.
Sec. 1111. Any language specifying an earmark in an
appropriations Act for fiscal year 2024, or in a committee
report or joint explanatory statement accompanying such an
Act, shall have no legal effect with respect to funds
appropriated by this division. For purposes of this section,
the term ``earmark'' means a congressional earmark, community
project funding, or congressionally directed spending item,
as defined in clause 9(e) of rule XXI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives and paragraph 5(a) of rule XLIV of
the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Sec. 1112. With respect to any discretionary account for
which advance appropriations were provided for fiscal year
2025 or 2026 in an appropriations Act for fiscal year 2024,
in addition to amounts otherwise made available by this
division, advance appropriations are provided in the same
amount for fiscal year 2026 or 2027, respectively, with a
comparable period of availability.
Sec. 1113. (a) Not later than 45 days after the date of the
enactment of this division, each department and agency in
subsection (c) shall submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
a spending, expenditure, or operating plan for fiscal year
2025--
(1) at the program, project, or activity level (or, for
foreign assistance programs funded in the Department of
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, at the country, regional, and central
program level, and for any international organization); or
(2) as applicable, at any greater level of detail required
for funds covered by such a plan in an appropriations Act
referred to in section 1101, in the joint explanatory
statement accompanying such Act, or in committee report
language incorporated by reference in such joint explanatory
statement.
(b) If a sequestration is ordered by the President under
section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, the spending, expenditure, or operating
plan required by this section shall reflect such
sequestration.
(c) The departments and agencies to which this section
applies are as follows:
(1) The Department of Agriculture.
(2) The Department of Commerce, including the United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
(3) The Department of Defense, other than for amounts made
available in section 1101(a)(3) and title IV of this
division.
(4) The Department of Education.
(5) The Department of Energy.
(6) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(7) The Department of Homeland Security.
(8) The Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(9) The Department of the Interior.
(10) The Department of Justice.
(11) The Department of Labor.
(12) The Department of State and United States Agency for
International Development.
(13) The Department of Transportation.
(14) The Department of the Treasury.
(15) The Department of Veterans Affairs.
(16) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(17) The National Science Foundation.
(18) The Judiciary.
(19) With respect to amounts made available under the
heading ``Executive Office of the President and Funds
Appropriated to the President'', agencies funded under such
heading.
(20) The Federal Communications Commission.
(21) The General Services Administration.
(22) The Office of Personnel Management.
(23) The National Archives and Records Administration.
(24) The Securities and Exchange Commission.
(25) The Small Business Administration.
(26) The Environmental Protection Agency.
(27) The Indian Health Service.
(28) The Smithsonian Institution.
(29) The Social Security Administration.
(30) The Corporation for National and Community Service.
(31) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
(32) The Food and Drug Administration.
(33) The Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
(34) The United States International Development Finance
Corporation.
(35) The Architect of the Capitol.
Sec. 1114. Not later than May 15, 2025, and each month
thereafter through November 1, 2025, the Office of Management
and Budget shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on
all obligations incurred in fiscal year 2025, by each
department and agency, using funds made available by this
division. Such report shall--
(1) set forth obligations by account; and
(2) compare the obligations incurred in the period covered
by the report to the obligations incurred in the same period
in fiscal year 2024.
Sec. 1115. During the period covered by this Act, section
235(b) of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (18 U.S.C. 3551
note; Public Law 98-473; 98 Stat. 2032), as such section
relates to chapter 311 of title 18, United States Code, and
the United States Parole Commission, shall be applied by
substituting ``37'' for ``36'' each place it appears.
Sec. 1116. Any amount appropriated by this Act, designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, and subsequently so designated
by the President, and transferred pursuant to transfer
authorities provided by this division shall retain such
designation.

TITLE II--AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,
AND RELATED AGENCIES

Sec. 1201. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for each of the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $0 for ``Department of Agriculture--Agricultural
Programs--Agricultural Research Service--Buildings and
Facilities''.
(2) $1,147,750,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--
Agricultural Programs--Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service--Salaries and Expenses''.
(3) $895,754,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Farm
Production and Conservation Programs--Natural Resources
Conservation Service--Conservation Operations''.
(4) $14,650,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Farm
Production and Conservation Programs--Natural Resources
Conservation Service--Watershed and Flood Prevention
Operations''.
(5) $478,487,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Rural
Development Programs--Rural Utilities Service--Rural Water
and Waste Disposal Program Account''.
(6) $40,000,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Rural
Development Programs--Rural Utilities Service--Distance
Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program'', for grants
for telemedicine and distance learning services in rural
areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq.
(7) $90,000,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Rural
Development Programs--Rural Utilities Service--Distance
Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program'', for the cost
to continue a broadband loan and grant pilot program
established by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141) under the Rural
Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 901 et
seq.).
Sec. 1202. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for each of the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $1,214,009,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--
Agricultural Programs--Food Safety and Inspection Service''.
(2) $516,070,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Domestic
Food Programs--Food and Nutrition Service--Commodity
Assistance Program'', of which $425,000,000 shall be for the
Commodity Supplemental Food Program.
(3) $7,597,000,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--
Domestic Food Programs--Food and Nutrition Service--Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and
Children (WIC)''.
Sec. 1203. (a) Section 260 of the Agricultural Marketing
Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1636i) is amended by striking ``2024''
and inserting ``2025''.
(b) Section 942 of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of
1999 (7 U.S.C. 1635 note; Public Law 106-78) is amended by
striking ``2024'' and inserting ``2025''.
Sec. 1204. Section 778 of division B of Public Law 118-42
is amended by striking paragraph (1).

(including transfers of funds)

Sec. 1205. Notwithstanding section 1101, amounts made
available under the heading ``Agricultural Programs, Farm
Service Agency, Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program
Account'' may be reprogrammed as necessary between
allocations for loan categories to ensure that overall
program levels are equal to, to the maximum extent
practicable, the fiscal year 2024 program levels,
notwithstanding section 346(b)(2)(A)(i)(I) of the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C.
1994(b)(2)(A)(i)(I)).

(including transfers of funds)

Sec. 1206. Notwithstanding section 1101, amounts may be
transferred among accounts of the Department of Agriculture
under the heading ``Rural Development Programs'' to allow for
the program levels to be equal to, to the maximum extent
practicable, the levels enacted for fiscal year 2024:
Provided, That $34,000,000 shall be transferred from such
accounts to ``Rural Development Programs, Rural Housing
Service, Rental Assistance Program''.
Sec. 1207. Title I of division N of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328), is amended in
the last proviso under the heading ``Agricultural Programs--
Processing, Research and Marketing--Office of the
Secretary'', by adding at the end the following: ``, except
that the Secretary shall allow producers to retain payments
not to exceed 90 percent of the producer's revenue losses (as
determined by the Secretary) if the Secretary determines a de
minimis amount, as defined by the Secretary, of a producer's
revenue loss is attributable to crops for which the producer
did not insure or obtain coverage under the Noninsured Crop
Disaster Assistance Program under section 196 of the Federal
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C.
7333): Provided further, That amounts repurposed pursuant to
this section that were previously designated by the Congress
as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent
resolution on the budget are designated as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section

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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985.''.

TITLE III--COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Sec. 1301. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $857,159,000 for ``Department of Commerce--National
Institute of Standards and Technology--Scientific and
Technical Research and Services''.
(2) $87,758,000 for ``Department of Commerce--National
Institute of Standards and Technology--Construction of
Research Facilities''.
(3) $4,408,986,000 for ``Department of Commerce--National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Operations, Research
and Facilities''.
(4) $2,000,033,000 for ``Department of Justice--State and
Local Law Enforcement Activities--Office of Justice
Programs--State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance'', and
amounts provided under paragraph (1) shall be $499,033,000,
amounts provided under subparagraph (Q) of paragraph (1)
shall be $0, and amounts provided under subparagraph (R) of
paragraph (1) shall be $0.
(5) $417,168,839 for ``Department of Justice--Community
Oriented Policing Services--Community Oriented Policing
Services Programs'', and amounts provided under paragraph (7)
shall be $0.
(6) $3,092,327,000 for ``National Aeronautics and Space
Administration--Safety, Security and Mission Services''.
Sec. 1302. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $38,460,240 for ``Department of Justice--Justice
Operations, Management, And Accountability--Justice
Information Sharing Technology''.
(2) $2,236,000,000 for ``Department of Justice--United
States Marshals Service--Federal Prisoner Detention''.

TITLE IV--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Sec. 1401. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
appropriations accounts under title I of division A of Public
Law 118-47 shall be as follows:
(1) $51,181,397,000 for ``Military Personnel, Army''.
(2) $38,813,378,000 for ``Military Personnel, Navy''.
(3) $16,151,382,000 for ``Military Personnel, Marine
Corps''.
(4) $37,023,437,000 for ``Military Personnel, Air Force''.
(5) $1,312,347,000 for ``Military Personnel, Space Force''.
(6) $5,490,830,000 for ``Reserve Personnel, Army''.
(7) $2,566,620,000 for ``Reserve Personnel, Navy''.
(8) $944,225,000 for ``Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps''.
(9) $2,597,273,000 for ``Reserve Personnel, Air Force''.
(10) $10,019,623,000 for ``National Guard Personnel,
Army''.
(11) $5,287,499,000 for ``National Guard Personnel, Air
Force''.
Sec. 1402. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
appropriations accounts under title II of division A of
Public Law 118-47 shall be as follows:
(1) $57,968,853,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance,
Army''.
(2) $73,657,268,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance,
Navy''.
(3) $10,183,272,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine
Corps''.
(4) $63,239,279,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air
Force''.
(5) $5,070,915,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Space
Force''.
(6) $53,376,465,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance,
Defense-Wide''.
(7) $528,699,000 for ``Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund''.
(8) $3,233,517,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army
Reserve''.
(9) $1,316,518,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy
Reserve''.
(10) $334,258,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine
Corps Reserve''.
(11) $4,029,224,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air
Force Reserve''.
(12) $8,408,317,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army
National Guard''.
(13) $7,249,086,000 for ``Operation and Maintenance, Air
National Guard''.
(14) $21,035,000 for ``United States Court of Appeals for
the Armed Forces''.
(15) $283,069,000 for ``Environmental Restoration, Army''.
(16) $343,591,000 for ``Environmental Restoration, Navy''.
(17) $330,524,000 for ``Environmental Restoration, Air
Force''.
(18) $9,480,000 for ``Environmental Restoration, Defense-
Wide''.
(19) $236,475,000 for ``Environmental Restoration, Formerly
Used Defense Sites''.
(20) $115,335,000 for ``Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster,
and Civic Aid''.
(21) $296,076,000 for ``Cooperative Threat Reduction
Account''.
(22) $56,176,000 for ``Defense Acquisition Workforce
Development Account''.
Sec. 1403. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
appropriations accounts under title III of division A of
Public Law 118-47 shall be as follows:
(1) $3,472,891,000 for ``Aircraft Procurement, Army''.
(2) $5,998,293,000 for ``Missile Procurement, Army''.
(3) $3,688,870,000 for ``Procurement of Weapons and Tracked
Combat Vehicles, Army''.
(4) $2,857,276,000 for ``Procurement of Ammunition, Army''.
(5) $8,677,094,000 for ``Other Procurement, Army''.
(6) $15,918,954,000 for ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy''.
(7) $6,348,511,000 for ``Weapons Procurement, Navy''.
(8) $1,598,584,000 for ``Procurement of Ammunition, Navy
and Marine Corps''.
(9) $15,142,773,000 for ``Other Procurement, Navy''.
(10) $3,803,608,000 for ``Procurement, Marine Corps''.
(11) $19,899,019,000 for ``Aircraft Procurement, Air
Force''.
(12) $4,258,672,000 for ``Missile Procurement, Air Force''.
(13) $550,646,000 for ``Procurement of Ammunition, Air
Force''.
(14) $30,978,191,000 for ``Other Procurement, Air Force''.
(15) $3,900,769,000 for ``Procurement, Space Force''.
(16) $5,719,307,000 for ``Procurement, Defense-Wide''.
(17) $463,377,000 for ``Defense Production Act Purchases''.
(18) $850,000,000 for ``National Guard and Reserve
Equipment Account''.
Sec. 1404. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy'' shall be
$33,331,952,000, as follows:
(1) Columbia Class Submarine, $3,364,835,000;
(2) Columbia Class Submarine (AP), $6,215,939,000;
(3) Carrier Replacement Program (CVN-80), $1,123,124,000;
(4) Carrier Replacement Program (CVN-81), $674,930,000;
(5) Virginia Class Submarine, $3,615,904,000;
(6) Virginia Class Submarine (AP), $3,720,303,000;
(7) CVN Refueling Overhauls, $811,143,000;
(8) DDG-1000 Program, $61,100,000;
(9) DDG-51 Destroyer, $7,951,890,000;
(10) DDG-51 Destroyer (AP), $83,224,000;
(11) FFG-Frigate, $233,200,000;
(12) LPD Flight II, $1,561,963,000;
(13) LHA Replacement (AP), $61,118,000;
(14) Medium Landing Ship, $29,668,000;
(15) Ship to Shore Connector, $480,000,000;
(16) Service Craft, $41,426,000;
(17) Auxiliary Personnel Lighter, $76,168,000;
(18) LCAC SLEP, $45,087,000;
(19) Auxiliary Vessels, $204,939,000;
(20) For outfitting, post delivery, conversions, and first
destination transportation, $585,967,000; and
(21) Completion of Prior Year Shipbuilding Programs,
$2,390,024,000.
Sec. 1405. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
appropriations accounts under title IV of division A of
Public Law 118-47 shall be as follows:
(1) $14,322,031,000 for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Army''.
(2) $25,967,177,000 for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Navy''.
(3) $46,811,425,000 for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Air Force''.
(4) $18,553,363,000 for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Space Force''.
(5) $35,238,856,000 for ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Defense-Wide''.
(6) $348,709,000 for ``Operational Test and Evaluation,
Defense''.
Sec. 1406. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
``Revolving and Management Funds'' shall be $1,840,550,000.
Sec. 1407. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
appropriations accounts under title VI of division A of
Public Law 118-47 shall be as follows:
(1) $40,395,072,000 for ``Defense Health Program'':
Provided, That the amounts included under such heading shall
be applied to funds appropriated by this Act by substituting
``$38,300,769,000'' for ``$36,639,695,000'',
``$20,599,128,000'' for ``$19,757,403,000'', ``$398,867,000''
for ``$381,881,000'', ``$1,695,436,000'' for
``$2,877,048,000'', and ``$650,000,000'' for
``$1,509,000,000''.
(2) $775,507,000 for ``Chemical Agents and Munitions
Destruction, Defense'': Provided, That the amounts included
under such heading shall be applied to funds appropriated by
this Act by striking ``$57,875,000'' and substituting
``$20,745,000'' for ``$89,284,000'', ``$13,945,000'' for
``$23,676,000'', ``$6,800,000'' for ``$34,199,000'', and
``$754,762,000'' for ``$1,002,560,000''.
(3) $1,110,436,000 for ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug
Activities, Defense'': Provided, That the amounts included
under such heading shall be applied to funds appropriated by
this Act by substituting ``$653,702,000'' for
``$702,962,000'', ``$135,567,000'' for ``$138,313,000'',
``$295,000,000'' for ``$305,786,000'', and ``$26,167,000''
for ``$30,000,000''.
(4) $539,769,000 for ``Office of the Inspector General'':
Provided, That the amounts included under such heading shall
be applied to funds appropriated by this Act by substituting
``$536,533,000'' for ``$524,067,000'', ``$1,336,000'' for
``$1,098,000'', and ``$1,900,000'' for ``$3,400,000''.
Sec. 1408. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
``Related Agencies, Intelligence Community Management
Account'' under title VII of division A of Public Law 118-47
shall be $629,128,000.
Sec. 1409. No appropriation or funds made available or
authority granted pursuant to section 1101(3) for the
Department of Defense shall be used to initiate or resume any
project or activity unless provided for in H.R. 8774 (as
engrossed in the House of Representatives on June 28, 2024)
or S. 4921 (as

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reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations on August
1, 2024).
Sec. 1410. The levels for appropriations accounts
specified in sections 1401 through 1408 for classified
programs shall conform to the direction included in the
classified annex accompanying this title and shall be
implemented in a manner consistent with Public Law 118-47.
Sec. 1411. Section 8004 of division A of Public Law 118-47
shall be applied by substituting ``40 percent'' for ``20
percent''.
Sec. 1412. (a) Section 8005 of division A of Public Law
118-47 is amended by striking ``$6,000,000,000'' and
inserting ``$8,000,000,000'': Provided, That any transfer
made pursuant to such section may not extend the period of
availability of funds transferred beyond the period of
availability for obligation of such funds as provided to such
funds in division A of Public Law 118-47.
(b) Notwithstanding section 1101, section 8005 of division
A of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied to funds appropriated
by this Act by substituting ``$8,000,000,000'' for the dollar
amount in such section.
Sec. 1413. Section 8026 of division A of Public Law 118-47
shall be applied by substituting ``$2,886,300,000'' for
``$2,857,803,000'' and ``$461,300,000'' for ``$456,803,000''.
Subsection (e) of such section shall not apply to funds
appropriated by this Act.
Sec. 1414. Notwithstanding section 1101, section 8109 of
division A of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied by
substituting ``$1,362,809,000'' for ``$1,406,346,000'',
section 8110 of such division shall be applied by
substituting ``$350,000,000'' for ``$380,000,000'', and
section 8117 of such division shall be applied by
substituting ``$50,406,000'' for ``$15,000,000''.
Sec. 1415. Section 8046 of division A of Public Law 118-
47, shall not apply to funds made available under this Act.

(rescissions)

Sec. 1416. The following amounts are permanently
rescinded:
(1) ``Afghanistan Security Forces Fund'', 2022/2025,
$80,000,000;
(2) ``Aircraft Procurement, Army'', 2023/2025, $25,000,000;
(3) ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'', 2023/2025, $3,700,000;
(4) ``Other Procurement, Navy'', 2023/2025, $45,000,000;
(5) ``Aircraft Procurement, Air Force'', 2023/2025,
$125,373,000;
(6) ``Procurement Ammunition, Air Force'', 2023/2025,
$23,000,000;
(7) ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', 2024/2025,
$25,000,000;
(8) ``Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund'', 2024/2025,
$50,000,000;
(9) ``Cooperative Threat Reduction Account'', 2024/2026,
$91,000,000;
(10) ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'', 2024/2026,
$48,050,000;
(11) ``Aircraft Procurement, Air Force'', 2024/2026,
$65,000,000;
(12) ``Other Procurement, Air Force'', 2024/2026,
$188,300,000;
(13) ``Procurement, Space Force'', 2024/2026, $46,300,000;
(14) ``Procurement, Defense-Wide'', 2024/2026, $14,777,000;
(15) ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'',
2024/2025, $51,395,000;
(16) ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air
Force'', 2024/2025, $408,942,000;
(17) ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Space
Force'', 2024/2025, $111,665,000; and
(18) ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-
Wide'', 2024/2025, $31,800,000.
Sec. 1417. Of the amounts appropriated in section 1404 of
this Act, $2,390,024,000 shall be available until September
30, 2025, to fund prior year shipbuilding costs increases for
the following programs:
(1) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2013/2025: Carrier Replacement Program, $236,000,000;
(2) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2016/2025: DDG-51 Program, $10,509,000;
(3) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2016/2025: Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Program,
$60,000,000;
(4) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2017/2025: Virginia Class Submarine Program,
$219,370,000;
(5) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2017/2025: DDG-51 Program, $115,600,000;
(6) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2017/2025: Littoral Combat Ship Program, $8,100,000;
(7) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2017/2025: LHA Replacement Program, $115,397,000;
(8) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2018/2025: Virginia Class Submarine Program,
$73,634,000;
(9) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2018/2025: DDG-51 Program, $107,405,000;
(10) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2018/2025: Littoral Combat Ship Program, $12,000,000;
(11) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2018/2025: LPD 17 (Flight II) Amphibious Transport
Dock Program, $19,158,000;
(12) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2018/2025: Oceanographic Ships Program, $18,000,000;
(13) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2018/2025: Ship to Shore Connector Program,
$14,694,000;
(14) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2019/2025: Littoral Combat Ship Program, $27,900,000;
(15) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2019/2025: T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $49,995,000;
(16) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2019/2025: Ship to Shore Connector Program,
$33,345,000;
(17) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2020/2025: CVN Refueling Overhauls, $669,171,000;
(18) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2020/2025: FFG-Frigate Program, $105,413,000;
(19) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2020/2025: T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $151,837,000;
(20) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2020/2025: Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Program,
$978,000;
(21) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2021/2025: FFG-Frigate Program, $76,580,000;
(22) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2021/2025: Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Program,
$17,375,000;
(23) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2022/2025: FFG-Frigate Program, $64,940,000;
(24) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2022/2025: T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $13,222,000;
(25) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2022/2025: Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Program,
$4,234,000;
(26) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2023/2025: FFG-Frigate Program, $54,308,000;
(27) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2023/2025: T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $12,100,000; and
(28) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion,
Navy'', 2024/2025: FFG-Frigate Program, $98,759,000.
Sec. 1418. The last paragraph in section 8010 of division
A of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied by striking ``Naval
Strike Missile'' and all that follows before the period and
inserting ``CH-53K Heavy Lift helicopters, T408 engines, and
USS Virginia Class (SSN-774)''.
Sec. 1419. During the period covered by this Act, section
8092 of division A of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied by
substituting ``$204,939,000'' for ``$142,008,000''.
Sec. 1420. For an additional amount there is appropriated
to the ``Department of Defense Credit Program Account''
established pursuant to section 149(e)(5) of title 10, United
States Code, as amended by section 905(a) of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (Public Law
118-159), $89,049,000, to remain available until expended, to
carry out a pilot program on capital assistance to support
defense investment in the industrial base as authorized by
section 149(e) of such title, of which up to $7,900,000 may
be used for administrative expenses and project-specific
transaction costs: Provided, That costs of loans and loan
guarantees, including the cost of modifying such loans and
loan guarantees, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such
amounts are available to subsidize gross obligations for the
principal amount of loans, and total loan principal, any part
of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $4,000,000,000:
Provided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the
Congressional Budget Office may request, and the Secretary
shall promptly provide documentation and information relating
to a project receiving capital assistance as authorized under
section 149(e) of such title: Provided further, That section
8140 of division A of Public Law 118-47 shall not apply to
funds appropriated by this Act.

(including transfer of funds)

Sec. 1421. For an additional amount for the Department of
Defense, $8,000,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2025, for transfer to military personnel accounts,
operation and maintenance accounts, and the Defense Working
Capital Funds, in addition to amounts otherwise made
available only for U.S. military operations, force
protection, and deterrence led by Commander, United States
Central Command and Commander, United States European
Command: Provided, That none of the funds provided under this
section may be obligated or expended until 30 days after the
Secretary of Defense provides to the congressional defense
committees an execution plan: Provided further, That not less
than 15 days prior to any transfer of funds, the Secretary of
Defense shall notify the congressional defense committees of
the details of any such transfer: Provided further, That the
transfer authority provided under this section is in addition
to any other transfer authority provided elsewhere in this
Act: Provided further, That upon transfer, the funds shall be
merged with and available for the same purposes, and for the
same time period, as the appropriation to which transferred:
Provided further, That upon a determination that all or part
of the funds transferred from this appropriation are not
necessary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts may
be transferred back and merged with this appropriation.
Sec. 1422. (a) Not later than 45 days after the date of the
enactment of this division, the Department of Defense, after
consultation with the Subcommittees on Defense of the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate, shall submit to such Subcommittees a
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year 2025 for appropriations or funds made available pursuant
to section 1101(a)(3) or any other provision of this title
for the Department of Defense at the same level of detail
required for the report outlined by section 8007 of division
A of Public Law 118-47.
(b) No program, project, or activity may be included in the
expenditure plan submitted pursuant to subsection (a) unless
such program, project, or activity was provided for in H.R.
8774 (as engrossed in the House of Representatives on June
28, 2024) or S. 4921 (as reported by the Senate Committee on
Appropriations on August 1, 2024) or in the reports
accompanying those Acts.
(c) The plan submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall
serve as the baseline for reprogramming and transfer
authorities for fiscal year 2025 under the authorities and
conditions of sections 8005 and 8006 of division A of Public
Law 118-47.
(d) If a sequestration is ordered by the President under
section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, the spending, expenditure, or operating
plan required by this section shall reflect such
sequestration.

TITLE V--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES

Sec. 1501. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be applied as follows:
(1) $1,710,806,000 for ``Department of the Interior--
Bureau of Reclamation--Water and Related Resources'':
Provided, That the sixth proviso under such heading shall not
apply to funds appropriated in this division.
(2) $0 for ``Department of Energy--Energy Programs--Energy
Projects''.
Sec. 1502. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $55,000,000 for ``Department of Energy--Energy
Programs--Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee
Program'': Provided, That the second and third provisos shall
be applied by substituting ``$55,000,000'' for
``$70,000,000'' and the fourth proviso shall be applied by
substituting ``$170,000,000'' for ``$70,000,000''.
(2) $19,293,000,000 for ``Department of Energy--Atomic
Energy Defense Activities--National Nuclear Security
Administration--Weapons Activities''.
(3) $2,396,000,000 for ``Department of Energy--Atomic
Energy Defense Activities--National Nuclear Security
Administration--Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation''.
(4) $1,107,000,000 for ``Department of Energy--
Environmental and Other Defense Activities--Other Defense
Activities''.
Sec. 1503. (a) Section 102 of division D of Public Law 118-
42 shall not apply with respect to funds appropriated by this
division.
(b) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of
this division, the Chief of Engineers shall submit directly
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate a detailed work plan for
fiscal year 2025 with respect to the funds appropriated by
this division for ``Corps of Engineers--Civil'': Provided,
That specific studies and projects shall not be eligible to
receive such funds made available under the headings
``Investigations'', ``Construction'', and ``Mississippi River
and Tributaries'', as applicable, unless such studies and
projects are active as of the date that is the day prior to
the date of enactment of this division and are otherwise
eligible to receive funds made available under such headings:
Provided further, That the Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Civil Works shall not deviate from the work plan
submitted pursuant to this subsection once the plan has been
submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate, except as provided in section
101 of division D of Public Law 118-42.
Sec. 1504. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
language under the heading ``Department of Energy--Energy
Programs--Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and
Decommissioning Fund'' in Public Law 118-42 shall be applied
to funds appropriated by this Act by substituting ``to be
deposited into and subsequently derived from'' for ``to be
derived from''.
Sec. 1505. Section 301(d) of division D of Public Law 118-
42 shall not apply to amounts made available by this division
to the Department of Energy under the headings ``Atomic
Energy Defense Activities--National Nuclear Security
Administration--Weapons Activities'', ``Atomic Energy Defense
Activities--National Nuclear Security Administration--Defense
Nuclear Nonproliferation'', and ``Environmental and Other
Defense Activities--Defense Environmental Cleanup''.
Sec. 1506. Section 10609(a) of the Northwestern New Mexico
Rural Water Projects Act (subtitle B of title X of Public Law
111-11) shall be applied by substituting ``$1,640,000,000''
for ``$870,000,000'' and ``2025'' for ``2024''.
Sec. 1507. (a) In accordance with section 4007 of Public
Law 114-322, and as recommended by the Secretary of the
Interior in a letter dated May 22, 2024, funding provided for
such purpose in fiscal year 2024 shall be made available to
the Sites Reservoir Project.
(b) In accordance with section 4009(c) of Public Law 114-
322, and as recommended by the Secretary in a letter dated
May 22, 2024, funding provided for such purpose in fiscal
year 2023 and fiscal year 2024 shall be made available to the
El Paso Aquifer Storage and Recovery Enhanced Arroyo Project,
the Replenish Big Bear, the Purified Water Replenishment
Project, the North San Diego Water Reuse Coalition Regional
Recycled Water Program, the Coachella Valley Water District
WRP-10 Non-Potable Water System Expansion, the Pure Water
Oceanside Phase 1, and the Carpinteria Advanced Purification
Project.
Sec. 1508. Amounts made available by section 1101 for
``Department of Energy--Atomic Energy Defense Activities--
National Nuclear Security Administration--Naval Reactors''
may be used for the design and construction of the Naval
Examination Acquisition Project.
Sec. 1509. Amounts made available by section 1101 for
``Department of Energy--Atomic Energy Defense Activities--
National Nuclear Security Administration--Weapons
Activities'' may be used for Domestic Uranium Enrichment,
Warhead Assembly Modernization, the Principal Underground
Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation at the Nevada
National Security Sites, the Analytic Gas Laboratory at
Pantex, and the Plutonium Mission Safety and Quality Building
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

TITLE VI--FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Sec. 1601. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts in division B of Public Law
118-47 shall be applied as follows:
(1) In section 204, by substituting ``$0'' for
``$13,045,000''.
(2) In section 530, by substituting ``$0'' for
``$38,414,000''.
(3) In section 542, by substituting ``$0'' for
``$116,541,000''.
Sec. 1602. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $15,000,000 for ``Election Assistance Commission--
Election Security Grants''.
(2) $9,308,000,000 for ``General Services Administration--
Federal Buildings Fund'', without regard to the limitations
in paragraphs (1) through (3) and subparagraphs (A) through
(C) in paragraph (2) under such heading in division B of
Public Law 118-47: Provided, That the amount under such
heading for buildings operations shall be applied by
substituting ``$3,272,000,000'' for ``$2,951,184,000''.
(3) $8,000,000 for ``National Archives and Records
Administration--Repairs and Restoration'': Provided, That the
amounts included under such heading in division B of Public
Law 118-47 shall be applied by substituting ``$0'' for
``$17,500,000''.
(4) $90,000,000 for ``District of Columbia--Federal Funds--
Federal Payment For Emergency Planning and Security Costs In
The District of Columbia'': Provided, That $50,000,000 of the
amounts included under such heading shall be for costs
associated with the Presidential Inauguration held in January
2025.
Sec. 1603. Notwithstanding section 1101, no funds are
provided by this Act for ``General Services Administration--
Pre-election Presidential Transition''.
Sec. 1604. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
``Small Business Administration--Disaster Loans Program
Account'' shall be $406,000,000: Provided, That the amounts
included under such heading in division B of Public Law 118-
47 shall be applied by substituting ``$396,000,000'' for
``$165,000,000'': Provided further, That of the funds made
available by section 1101 under such heading, $374,000,000
shall be for major disasters declared pursuant to the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5122(2)) and is designated by the Congress as being
for disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Sec. 1605. Notwithstanding 1101, section 747 of title VII
of division B of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied through
the date specified in section 1106 of this Act by--
(1) substituting ``2024'' for ``2023'' each place it
appears;
(2) substituting ``2025'' for ``2024'' each place it
appears;
(3) substituting ``2026'' for ``2025''; and
(4) substituting ``section 747 of division B of Public Law
118-47, as in effect on September 30, 2024'' for ``section
747 of division E of Public Law 117-328'' each place it
appears.
Sec. 1606. Section 128 of division B of Public Law 118-47
shall not apply for fiscal year 2025.
Sec. 1607. Section 302 of title III of Public Law 108-494
shall be applied by substituting the date specified in
section 1106 of this Act for ``December 31, 2024'' each place
it appears.
Sec. 1608. If, for fiscal year 2025, new budget authority
provided in appropriations Acts exceeds the discretionary
spending limit for any category set forth in section 251(c)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 due to estimating differences with the Congressional
Budget Office, an adjustment to the discretionary spending
limit in such category for fiscal year 2025 shall be made by
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the
amount of the excess but the total of all such adjustments
shall not exceed 0.25 percent of the sum of the adjusted
discretionary spending limits for all categories for that
fiscal year.

TITLE VII--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Sec. 1701. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for the
following accounts shall be as follows:

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(1) $9,986,542,000 for ``U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement--Operations and Support''.
(2) $10,614,968,000 for ``Transportation Security
Administration--Operations and Support''.
(3) $10,415,271,000 for ``Coast Guard--Operations and
Support''.
(4) $3,203,262,000 for ``Federal Emergency Management
Agency--Federal Assistance'': Provided, That the matter under
such heading in division C of Public Law 118-47 shall be
applied to funds provided by this Act by substituting ``$0''
for each number in paragraph (12).
(5) $22,510,000,000 for ``Federal Emergency Management
Agency--Disaster Relief Fund'': Provided, That such amount
shall be for major disasters declared pursuant to the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and is designated by the Congress as
being for disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985.
Sec. 1702. Section 11223(b)(2) of the Don Young Coast
Guard Authorization Act of 2022 (division K of Public Law
117-263) is amended by striking ``shall apply'' and inserting
``shall not apply''.
Sec. 1703. During the period covered by this Act, section
517 of title 10, United States Code, shall not apply with
respect to the Coast Guard.
Sec. 1704. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
matter preceding the first proviso under the heading ``United
States Secret Service--Operations and Support'' in division C
of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied to funds appropriated
by this Act by substituting ``$35,000,000'' for
``$24,000,000'' and substituting ``2024'' for ``2023''.
Sec. 1705. For fiscal year 2025, section 227 of the
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
(division C of Public Law 118-47) shall have no force or
effect.

(rescission)

Sec. 1706. The following unobligated balances made
available to the Department of Homeland Security pursuant to
section 505 of the Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2024 (division C of Public Law 118-47)
are rescinded:
(1) $550,000 from ``Office of the Secretary and Executive
Management--Operations and Support''.
(2) $1,497,000 from ``Management Directorate--Operations
and Support''.
(3) $1,309,000 from ``Intelligence, Analysis, and
Situational Awareness--Operations and Support''.
(4) $102,000 from ``Office of Inspector General--Operations
and Support''.
(5) $15,823,000 from ``Transportation Security
Administration--Operations and Support''.
(6) $4,321,000 from ``Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency--Operations and Support''.
(7) $1,723,000 from ``Federal Emergency Management Agency--
Operations and Support''.
(8) $2,514,000 from ``U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services--Operations and Support''.
(9) $685,000 from ``Federal Law Enforcement Training
Centers--Operations and Support''.
(10) $1,051,000 from ``Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction Office--Operations and Support''.

(rescission)

Sec. 1707. Of the unobligated balances in the ``Department
of Homeland Security Nonrecurring Expenses Fund'' established
in section 538 of division F of Public Law 117-103,
$133,000,000 are hereby rescinded.

(including transfer of funds)

Sec. 1708. (a) Of the total amount provided by paragraph
(4) of section 1701 of this Act under the heading ``Federal
Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assistance'',
$115,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the
unobligated balances from amounts made available in paragraph
(2) under such heading in title V of division J of the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58)
and shall be merged with amounts provided under such heading
by paragraph (4) of section 1701 of this Act.
(b) Amounts repurposed or transferred pursuant to this
section that were previously designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on
the budget shall continue to be treated as an amount
specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-
5.
Sec. 1709. (a) Sections 1309(a) and 1319 of the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a) and 4026)
shall be applied by substituting the date specified in
section 1106 of this Act for ``September 30, 2023''.
(b)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this section shall become
effective immediately upon enactment of this Act.
(2) If this Act is enacted after March 14, 2025, this
section shall be applied as if it were in effect on March 14,
2025.

TITLE VIII--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES

Sec. 1801. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $1,294,766,000 for ``Department of the Interior--
Bureau of Land Management--Management of Lands and
Resources'': Provided, That the amounts included under such
heading in division E of Public Law 118-42 shall be applied
to funds appropriated by this division by substituting
``$1,294,766,000'' for ``$1,294,916,000'' the second place it
appears.
(2) $1,475,353,000 for ``Department of the Interior--United
States Fish and Wildlife Service--Resource Management''.
(3) $89,593,000 for ``Department of the Interior--National
Park Service--National Recreation and Preservation''.
(4) $168,900,000 for ``Department of the Interior--National
Park Service--Historic Preservation Fund''.
(5) $1,450,197,000 for ``Department of the Interior--United
States Geological Survey--Surveys, Investigations, and
Research''.
(6) $1,897,709,000 for ``Department of the Interior--Bureau
of Indian Affairs--Operation of Indian Programs''.
(7) $756,073,000 for ``Environmental Protection Agency--
Science and Technology'': Provided, That the amounts included
under such heading in division E of Public Law 118-42 shall
be applied to the funds appropriated by this division as
follows: by substituting ``$17,500,000'' for ``$19,530,000'';
and by substituting ``$0'' for ``$2,030,000''.
(8) $4,380,245,000 for ``State and Tribal Assistance
Grants'': Provided, That the amounts included under such
heading in division E of Public Law 118-42 shall be applied
to the funds appropriated by this division as follows: by
substituting ``$0'' for ``$787,652,267''; by substituting
``$0'' for ``$631,659,905''; and by substituting ``$0'' for
``$38,693,000'': Provided further, That the second proviso
under the paragraph numbered (1) of such heading in division
E of Public Law 118-42 shall not apply to the funds
appropriated by this division.
(9) $283,500,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Forest
Service--State, Private, and Tribal Forestry''.
(10) $151,000,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Forest
Service--Capital Improvement and Maintenance''.
Sec. 1802. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $2,894,424,000 for ``Department of the Interior--
National Park Service--Operation of the National Park
System''.
(2) $1,147,171,000 for ``Department of the Interior--
Department-Wide Programs--Wildland Fire Management''.
(3) $3,195,028,000 for ``Environmental Protection Agency--
Environmental Programs and Management''.
(4) $2,426,111,000 for ``Department of Agriculture--Forest
Service--Wildland Fire Management''.
Sec. 1803. (a) Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
the level for ``Department of Health and Human Services--
Indian Health Service--Indian Health Services'' shall be
$38,709,000 for amounts in the first appropriation in the
matter preceding the first proviso under such heading.
(b) In addition to amounts otherwise made available in
section 1112, $38,709,000 is appropriated for ``Department of
Health and Human Services--Indian Health Service--Indian
Health Services'', which shall become available on October 1,
2025, and remain available through September 30, 2027.
Sec. 1804. (a) Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
the level for ``Department of Health and Human Services--
Indian Health Service--Indian Health Facilities'' shall be--
(1) $3,920,000 for amounts in the first appropriation in
the matter preceding the first proviso under such heading;
and
(2) $289,306,000 for Sanitation Facilities Construction and
Health Care Facilities Construction:
Provided, That amounts included in the fourth proviso under
such heading in division E of Public Law 118-42 shall be
applied to funds appropriated by this division by
substituting ``$0'' for ``$17,023,000''.
(b) In addition to amounts otherwise made available in
section 1112, $3,920,000 is appropriated for ``Department of
Health and Human Services--Indian Health Service--Indian
Health Facilities'', which shall become available on October
1, 2025, and remain available until expended.
Sec. 1805. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, there
is appropriated $1,650,000 for the ``Office of Navajo and
Hopi Indian Relocation--Salaries and Expenses'' account,
which shall be subject to the same terms and conditions as
amounts otherwise made available to that account in fiscal
year 2024 consistent with section 1105.
Sec. 1806. (a) Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
the level for ``Department of the Interior--Department-Wide
Programs--Wildfire Suppression Operations Reserve Fund''
shall be $360,000,000 for additional new budget authority as
specified for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
(b) Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
``Department of Agriculture--Forest Service--Wildfire
Suppression Operations Reserve Fund'' shall be $2,390,000,000
for additional new budget authority as specified for purposes
of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Sec. 1807. Sections 456 and 457 of H.R. 8998 from the
118th Congress (Department of the Interior, Environment, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025), as passed by the
House of Representatives on July 24, 2024, are hereby enacted
into law.
Sec. 1808. (a) Funds previously made available in the
Further Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster
Relief Requirements Act, 2018 (subdivision 1 of division B of
Public Law 115-123) for the ``Department of the Interior--
National Park Service--Historic Preservation Fund'' that were
available

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for obligation through fiscal year 2019 are to remain
available through fiscal year 2026 for the liquidation of
valid obligations incurred in fiscal years 2018 and 2019:
Provided, That amounts repurposed pursuant to this section
that were previously designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985.
(b) This section shall--
(1) take effect on the day of enactment of this Act; and
(2) be applied as if it were in effect on September 30,
2024.
Sec. 1809. Section 113 of division G of Public Law 113-76
shall be applied by substituting ``2025'' for ``2024''.

TITLE IX--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND
EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Sec. 1901. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for ``Department of Labor--Bureau of Labor Statistics--
Salaries and Expenses'' shall be applied by substituting
``$635,952,000'' for ``$629,952,000''.
Sec. 1902. (a) Notwithstanding section 1101, the level
which may be expended from the Employment Security
Administration Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund for
administrative expenses of ``Department of Labor--State
Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations''
shall be $3,928,084,000: Provided, That the amount included
under such heading in division D of Public Law 118-47 shall
be applied to funds appropriated by this division by
substituting ``$3,147,635,000'' for ``$3,141,635,000'' and
``$388,000,000'' for ``$382,000,000'': Provided further, That
of the funds made available by section 1101 under such
heading to carry out reemployment services and eligibility
assessments under section 306 of the Social Security Act,
$271,000,000 is additional new budget authority specified for
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(E) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
(b) Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for
``Department of Health and Human Services--Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services--Health Care Fraud and Abuse
Control Account'' shall be $941,000,000: Provided, That the
amount included under such heading in division D of Public
Law 118-47 shall be applied to funds appropriated by this
division by substituting ``$699,058,000'' for
``$675,058,000'', ``$108,735,000'' for ``$107,735,000'', and
``$133,207,000'' for ``$132,207,000'': Provided further, That
of the funds made available by section 1101 under such
heading, $630,000,000 is additional new budget authority
specified for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(C) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 for
additional health care fraud and abuse control activities.
(c) Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for ``Social
Security Administration--Limitation on Administrative
Expenses'' shall be $14,127,978,000: Provided, That the
amount included under such heading in division D of Public
Law 118-47 shall be applied to funds appropriated by this
division by substituting ``$1,903,000,000'' for
``$1,851,000,000'': Provided further, That of the funds made
available by section 1101 under such heading, $1,630,000,000
is additional new budget authority specified for purposes of
section 251(b)(2)(B) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.

(rescission)

Sec. 1903. Of the funds made available under the heading
``Department of Labor--Employment and Training
Administration--Training and Employment Services'' in
division D of Public Law 118-47, $75,000,000 are hereby
permanently rescinded from the amount specified in paragraph
(2)(A) under such heading for the period October 1, 2024
through September 30, 2025.
Sec. 1904. Notwithstanding section 1104 of this Act,
during the period covered by this Act, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services may collect registration fees from
members of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
(in this section referred to as ``OPTN''), authorized under
section 372 of the Public Health Service Act, for each
transplant candidate such members place on the list described
in subsection (b)(2)(A)(i) of such section, including
directly or through awards made under subsection (b)(1)(A) of
such section: Provided, That such fees may be credited to the
``Department of Health and Human Services--Health Resources
and Services Administration--Health Systems'' account, to
remain available until expended, to support the operation of
the OPTN: Provided further, That the Secretary may distribute
fees collected pursuant to this subsection among the awardee
or awardees described in such subsection (b)(1)(A) as the
Secretary deems appropriate.
Sec. 1905. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for ``Department of Health and Human Services--National
Institutes of Health--NIH Innovation Account, CURES Act''
shall be applied by substituting ``$127,000,000'' for
``$407,000,000''.

(including transfer of funds)

Sec. 1906. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act, not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of
this section, the Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall transfer funds appropriated for fiscal year 2025 under
section 4002 of Public Law 111-148 (42 U.S.C. 300u-11) to the
accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the
activities specified in subsection (a) of section 222 of
division D of Public Law 118-47: Provided, That subsections
(b) and (c) of such section 222 shall apply to amounts
transferred under this section.
Sec. 1907. Section 223 of division D of Public Law 118-47
is amended by striking ``2026'' and inserting ``2027''.
Sec. 1908. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be applied as follows:
(1) Under the heading ``Department of Labor--Employment
and Training Administration--Training and Employment
Services'', by substituting ``$3,898,587,000'' for
``$4,006,421,000'', by substituting ``$969,255,000'' for
``$1,077,089,000'', and by substituting ``$0'' for
``$107,834,000''.
(2) Under the heading ``Department of Health and Human
Services--Health Resources and Services Administration--HRSA-
Wide Activities and Program Support'', by substituting
``$219,588,000'' for ``$1,110,376,000'' and by substituting
``$0'' for ``$890,788,000''.
(3) Under the heading ``Department of Health and Human
Services--Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration--Health Surveillance and Program Support'', by
substituting ``$138,155,000'' for ``$210,245,000'' and by
substituting ``$0'' for ``$72,090,000''.
(4) Under the heading ``Department of Health and Human
Services--Administration for Children and Families--Children
and Families Services Programs'', by substituting
``$14,789,089,000'' for ``$14,829,100,000'' and by
substituting ``$0'' for ``$40,011,000''.
(5) Under the heading ``Department of Health and Human
Services--Administration for Community Living--Aging and
Disability Services Programs'', by substituting
``$2,435,832,000'' for ``$2,465,100,000'' and by substituting
``$0'' for ``$29,268,000''.
(6) Under the heading ``Department of Education--Higher
Education'', by substituting ``$3,080,952,000'' for
``$3,283,296,000'' and by substituting ``$0'' for
``$202,344,000''.
Sec. 1909. Section 306 of division D of Public Law 118-47
is amended by striking ``2024'' and inserting ``2026''.

(including rescission of funds)

Sec. 1910. Notwithstanding section 1101, the amount under
the heading ``Corporation for National and Community
Service--Payment to the National Service Trust'' in division
D of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied to funds appropriated
by this division by substituting ``$235,000,000'' for
``$243,000,000''.
Sec. 1911. Notwithstanding section 1101, the amount
included in the third paragraph under the heading ``Social
Security Administration--Limitation on Administrative
Expenses'' in division D of Public Law 118-47 shall be
applied to funds appropriated by this division by
substituting ``$170,000,000'' for ``$150,000,000'' each place
it appears.
Sec. 1912. Activities authorized by part A of title IV
(other than under section 403(c) or 418) and section 1108(b)
of the Social Security Act shall continue through the date
specified in section 1106 of this Act, in the manner
authorized for fiscal year 2024, and out of any money in the
Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated,
there are hereby appropriated such sums as may be necessary
for such purpose.

TITLE X--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

Sec. 11001. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for each of the following Senate accounts shall be as
follows:
(1) ``Contingent Expenses of the Senate--Inquiries and
Investigations'', $189,200,000.
(2) ``Contingent Expenses of the Senate--Senators' Official
Personnel and Office Expense Account'', $607,400,000.
Sec. 11002. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for each of the following House of Representatives
accounts shall be as follows:
(1) ``Salaries and Expenses'', $1,878,346,000.
(2) ``Members' Representational Allowances'', $850,000,000.
(3) ``Salaries, Officers and Employees'', $320,227,000, and
the level under that heading for the Office of the Sergeant
at Arms, $34,141,000.
(4) ``House of Representatives Modernization Initiatives
Account'', $2,000,000.
Sec. 11003. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for each of the following Joint Items accounts shall be
as follows:
(1) ``Office of the Attending Physician'', $4,292,000.
(2) ``Capitol Police--Salaries'', $603,627,000: Provided,
That of the amounts appropriated, $15,000,000 shall be
available solely for tuition reimbursement and recruitment
and retention focused salary related items.
(3) ``Architect of the Capitol--Capitol Building'',
$48,688,000, of which $6,599,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2029, and of which $10,000,000 shall remain
available until expended.
(4) ``Architect of the Capitol--Capitol Grounds'',
$21,600,000, of which $7,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2029.
(5) ``Architect of the Capitol--House Office Buildings'',
$146,174,000, of which $61,610,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2029, and of which $10,500,000 shall
remain available until expended.
(6) ``Architect of the Capitol--Capitol Power Plant'',
$123,850,000, of which $11,000,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2029.
(7) ``Architect of the Capitol--Library Buildings and
Grounds'', $64,978,000, of which $27,800,000 shall remain
available until September 30, 2029, and the matter following
``September 20, 2028'' shall not apply.

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TITLE XI--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES

Sec. 11101. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be applied as follows:
(1) $2,236,357,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Army''.
(2) $4,159,399,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Navy and Marine Corps''.
(3) $3,347,126,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Air Force''.
(4) $3,881,383,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Defense-Wide''.
(5) $398,489,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Army National Guard''.
(6) $290,492,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Air National Guard''.
(7) $295,032,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Army Reserve''.
(8) $29,829,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Navy Reserve''.
(9) $74,663,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Construction, Air Force Reserve''.
Sec. 11102. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be applied as follows:
(1) $276,647,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family
Housing Construction--Army''.
(2) $245,742,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family
Housing Construction--Navy and Marine Corps''.
(3) $221,549,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family
Housing Construction--Air Force''.
(4) $8,195,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family Housing
Improvement Fund''.
(5) $497,000 for ``Department of Defense--Military
Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund''.
Sec. 11103. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be applied as follows:
(1) $485,611,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family
Housing Operation and Maintenance--Army''.
(2) $387,217,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family
Housing Operation and Maintenance--Navy and Marine Corps''.
(3) $336,250,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family
Housing Operation and Maintenance--Air Force''.
(4) $52,156,000 for ``Department of Defense--Family Housing
Operation and Maintenance--Defense-Wide''.
Sec. 11104. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
section 126 of division A of Public Law 118-42 shall be
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2017, 2018, 2019, and
2020'' for ``fiscal year 2017, 2018, and 2019''.
Sec. 11105. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
sections 124, 128 through 137, 259, and 260 of division A of
Public Law 118-42 shall not apply for fiscal year 2025.
Sec. 11106. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
section 123 of division A of Public Law 118-42 and the
provisions carrying the same restriction in prior Acts making
appropriations to the Department of Defense for military
construction shall not apply to unobligated balances from
prior year appropriations made available under the heading
``Department of Defense--Military Construction, Army'' and
such balances may be obligated for an access road project at
Arlington National Cemetery.
Sec. 11107. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, for
expenses necessary to support efforts to complete the
renovation of the Sheridan Building at the Armed Forces
Retirement Home--Washington, District of Columbia,
$31,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be
paid from the general fund of the Treasury to the Armed
Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund.
Sec. 11108. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act, the following provisions included in title I of division
A of Public Law 118-42 shall not apply to funds made
available by this Act: the first and last provisos under the
heading ``Military Construction, Army''; the first and last
provisos under the heading ``Military Construction, Navy and
Marine Corps''; the first and last provisos under the heading
``Military Construction, Air Force''; the second and third
provisos under the heading ``Military Construction, Defense-
Wide'', the first and second provisos under the heading
``Military Construction, Army National Guard''; the first and
second provisos under the heading ``Military Construction,
Air National Guard''; the first and second provisos under the
heading ``Military Construction, Army Reserve''; the first
proviso under the heading ``Military Construction, Navy
Reserve''; and the first and second provisos under the
heading ``Military Construction, Air Force Reserve''.
Sec. 11109. Notwithstanding section 1112, the levels for
each of the following accounts for fiscal year 2026 shall be
as follows:
(1) $75,039,000,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Medical Services'', which shall become available on October
1, 2025, and of which $2,000,000,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2027.
(2) $34,000,000,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Medical Community Care'', which shall become available on
October 1, 2025, and of which $2,000,000,000 shall remain
available until September 30, 2027.
(3) $12,700,000,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Medical Support and Compliance'', which shall become
available on October 1, 2025, and of which $350,000,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2027.
(4) $9,700,000,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Medical Facilities'', which shall become available on October
1, 2025, and of which $500,000,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2027.
(5) $227,240,071,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Veterans Benefits Administration--Compensation and
Pensions'', which shall become available on October 1, 2025,
to remain available until expended.
(6) $20,372,030,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Veterans Benefits Administration--Readjustment Benefits'',
which shall become available on October 1, 2025, to remain
available until expended.
(7) $131,518,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Veterans Benefits Administration--Veterans Insurance and
Indemnities'', to remain available until expended.
Sec. 11110. In addition to amounts provided in this or
other Acts, an additional amount is appropriated to the
following accounts in the amounts specified:
(1) $30,242,064,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Veterans Benefits Administration--Compensation and
Pensions'', to remain available until expended.
(2) $4,864,566,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Veterans Benefits Administration--Readjustment Benefits'', to
remain available until expended.
(3) $6,000,000,000 for ``Department of Veterans Affairs--
Cost of War Toxic Exposure Fund'', to remain available until
expended.

TITLE XII--DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED
PROGRAMS

Sec. 11201. Notwithstanding section 1101, the fifth and
sixth provisos under the heading ``Millennium Challenge
Corporation'' in title III of division F of Public Law 118-47
shall be applied by substituting ``December 31, 2025'' for
``December 31, 2024'' each place it appears.
Sec. 11202. Notwithstanding section 1101, the matter under
the heading ``Office of Inspector General'' in title I of
division F of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied to funds
appropriated by this Act by inserting ``up to'' before
``$24,835,000''.
Sec. 11203. Notwithstanding section 1101, the amounts
included under the heading ``International Boundary and Water
Commission, United States and Mexico--Construction'' in title
I of division F of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied by
substituting ``$78,000,000'' for ``$156,050,000'' and
``$15,000,000'' for ``$5,000,000'' in the first proviso.
Sec. 11204. Notwithstanding section 1101, the levels for
the following accounts in division F of Public Law 118-47
shall be as follows: ``Other Commissions--Commission on
Reform and Modernization of the Department of State'', $0;
``International Organizations--Contributions for
International Peacekeeping Activities'', $1,234,144,000;
``Department of the Treasury--Debt Restructuring'',
$10,000,000; and ``International Financial Institutions--
Contribution to the Asian Development Fund'', $43,610,000.
Sec. 11205. Notwithstanding section 1101, the following
provisions in title VII of division F of Public Law 118-47
shall not apply to funds appropriated by this Act--
(1) section 7004(e);
(2) section 7034(r); and
(3) section 7045(l)(2).
Sec. 11206. Notwithstanding section 1101, the following
provisions in title VII of division F of Public Law 118-47
shall be applied to funds appropriated by this Act by
substituting--
(1) in section 7041(d), ``$450,300,000'' for
``$725,300,000'';
(2) in section 7045(g)(2), ``January 1, 2026'' for
``January 1, 2025'';
(3) in section 7053, ``September 30, 2024'' for ``September
30, 2023''; and
(4) in section 7068(b), ``2020 through 2025'' for ``2020
through 2024'': Provided, That amounts provided pursuant to
this paragraph are designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985.

(including rescission of funds)

Sec. 11207. Notwithstanding section 1101, section 7075 in
title VII of division F of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied
by substituting--
(1) in subsection (c), ``$65,000,000'' for
``$50,000,000'';
(2) in subsection (e), ``$375,000,000'' for
``$902,340,000''; and
(3) in lieu of subsection (f), the following new
subsection:
``(f) Debt Restructuring.--Of the unobligated balances from
amounts made available under the heading `Debt Restructuring'
from prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of
State, foreign operations, and related programs, $111,000,000
are rescinded.''.
Sec. 11208. (a) The Foreign Operations, Export Financing,
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law
101-167) is amended--
(1) in section 599D (8 U.S.C. 1157 note)--
(A) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``and 2024'' and
inserting ``2024, and 2025''; and
(B) in subsection (e), by striking ``2024'' each place it
appears and inserting ``2025''; and
(2) in section 599E(b)(2) (8 U.S.C. 1255 note), by striking
``2024'' and inserting ``2025''.
(b) The heading of subparagraph (F) of section 602(b)(3) of
the Afghan Allies Protection

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Act of 2009 (8 U.S.C. 1101 note) is amended by striking
``2024'' and inserting ``2025''.
(c) Chapter 5 of title I of the Emergency Wartime
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108-11; 117
Stat. 576) is amended under the heading ``Loan Guarantees to
Israel''--
(1) in the matter preceding the first proviso, by striking
``September 30, 2029'' and inserting ``September 30, 2030'';
and
(2) in the second proviso, by striking ``September 30,
2029'' and inserting ``September 30, 2030''.
(d) Section 514(b)(2)(A) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321h(b)(2)(A)) is amended by striking
``2023'' and all that follows through the end of the sentence
and inserting ``2023 through 2027.''.

TITLE XIII--TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES

Sec. 11301. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $20,926,000 for ``Department of Transportation--Office
of the Secretary--Transportation Planning, Research, and
Development''.
(2) $3,176,250,000 for ``Department of Transportation--
Federal Aviation Administration--Facilities and Equipment''.
(3) $50,000,000 for ``Department of Transportation--Federal
Aviation Administration--Airport Improvement Program''.
(4) $340,500,000 for ``Department of Transportation--
Federal Highway Administration--Highway Infrastructure
Programs''.
(5) $100,000,000 for ``Department of Transportation--
Federal Railroad Administration--Consolidated Rail
Infrastructure and Safety Improvements''.
(6) $45,568,868 for ``Department of Transportation--Federal
Transit Administration--Transit Infrastructure Grants''.
(7) $50,000,000 for ``Department of Transportation--
Maritime Administration--Port Infrastructure Development
Program''.
(8) $3,430,000,000 for ``Department of Housing and Urban
Development--Community Planning and Development--Community
Development Fund''.
Sec. 11302. (a) Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act,
the level for limitations on obligation and liquidation of
contract authority shall be available in the following
accounts equal to the level of contract authority subject to
such limitation appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund in
sections 11102, 11104, 11106, 23001, 24101, 24201, and 30017
of Public Law 117-58 for fiscal year 2025:
(1) ``Department of Transportation--Federal Highway
Administration--Limitation on Administrative Expenses--
(Highway Trust Fund)''.
(2) ``Department of Transportation--Federal Highway
Administration--Federal-Aid Highways--(Limitation on
Obligations)--(Highway Trust Fund)--(Liquidation of Contract
Authorization)--(Highway Trust Fund)''.
(3) ``Department of Transportation--Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration--Motor Carrier Safety Operations and
Programs--(Liquidation of Contract Authorization)--
(Limitation on Obligations)--(Highway Trust Fund)''.
(4) ``Department of Transportation--Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration--Motor Carrier Safety Grants--
(Liquidation of Contract Authorization)--(Limitation on
Obligations)--(Highway Trust Fund)''.
(5) ``Department of Transportation--National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration--Operations and Research--
(Liquidation of Contract Authorization)--(Limitation on
Obligations)--(Highway Trust Fund)''.
(6) ``Department of Transportation--National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration--Highway Traffic Safety
Grants--(Liquidation of Contract Authorization)--(Limitation
on Obligations)--(Highway Trust Fund)''.
(7) ``Department of Transportation--Federal Transit
Administration--Transit Formula Grants--(Liquidation of
Contract Authorization)--(Limitation on Obligations)--
(Highway Trust Fund)''.
(b) Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the level for
limitations on obligation and liquidation of contract
authority shall be available for ``Department of
Transportation--Federal Aviation Administration--Grants-in-
Aid for Airports--(Liquidation of Contract Authorization)--
(Limitation on Obligations)--(Airport and Airway Trust
Fund)--(Including Transfer of Funds)'' in amounts equal to
the level of contract authority subject to such limitation in
section 101(a) of Public Law 118-63.
Sec. 11303. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
level for the following accounts shall be as follows:
(1) $450,000,000 for ``Department of Transportation--
Office of the Secretary--Payments to Air Carriers--(Airport
and Airway Trust Fund)''.
(2) $13,482,783,000 for ``Department of Transportation--
Federal Aviation Administration--Operations--(Airport and
Airway Trust Fund)'', of which not less than $1,832,078,000
shall be for aviation safety activities and not less than
$10,105,678,000 shall be for air traffic organization
activities.
(3) $45,150,000 for the fourth number under the heading
``Department of Transportation--Federal Aviation
Administration--Facilities and Equipment--(Airport and Airway
Trust Fund)''.
(4) $32,041,000,000 for ``Department of Housing and Urban
Development--Public and Indian Housing--Tenant-Based Rental
Assistance'' and $32,145,124,000 is the amount available
under paragraph (1): Provided, That the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development may use amounts made available in the
second, third, sixth, and seventh paragraphs under this
heading in division F of Public Law 118-42 to support the
purposes described in subparagraph (1)(D) and subparagraph
(4)(B) of such heading.
(5) $16,490,000,000 for ``Department of Housing and Urban
Development--Housing Programs--Project-Based Rental
Assistance''.
(6) $931,400,000 for ``Department of Housing and Urban
Development--Housing Programs--Housing for the Elderly''.
(7) $256,700,000 for ``Department of Housing and Urban
Development--Housing Programs--Housing for Persons with
Disabilities''.
(8) $145,000,000 for ``National Transportation Safety
Board--Salaries and Expenses''.
Sec. 11304. Notwithstanding section 1101 of this Act, the
following provisions shall not apply:
(1) Paragraph (3) under the heading ``Department of
Transportation--Federal Aviation Administration--Grants-in-
Aid for Airports''.
(2) The proviso under the heading ``Department of
Transportation--Maritime Administration--Maritime Security
Program''.
(3) The provisos under the heading ``Department of
Transportation--Maritime Administration--Tanker Security
Program''.
(4) The proviso under the heading ``Department of
Transportation--Maritime Administration--Ship Disposal''.
Sec. 11305. Notwithstanding section 1101, under the
heading ``Department of Housing and Urban Development--
Community Planning and Development--Homeless Assistance
Grants'', the Secretary may repurpose funds made available
under paragraph (5) to provide additional amounts for the
continuum of care program under paragraph (2) of such
heading.
This division may be cited as the ``Full-Year Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2025''.

DIVISION B--HEALTH

TITLE I--PUBLIC HEALTH EXTENDERS

SEC. 2101. EXTENSION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, NATIONAL
HEALTH SERVICE CORPS, AND TEACHING HEALTH
CENTERS THAT OPERATE GME PROGRAMS.

(a) Extension for Community Health Centers.--Section
10503(b)(1) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(1)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the end
and inserting and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(J) $2,135,835,616 for the period beginning on April 1,
2025, and ending on September 30, 2025; and''.
(b) Extension for the National Health Service Corps.--
Section 10503(b)(2) of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (42 U.S.C. 254b-2(b)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (I), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(K) $172,972,603 for the period beginning on April 1,
2025, and ending on September 30, 2025.''.
(c) Teaching Health Centers That Operate Graduate Medical
Education Programs.--Section 340H(g)(1) of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 256h(g)(1)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(F) $87,739,726 for the period beginning on April 1,
2025, and ending on September 30, 2025.''.
(d) Application of Provisions.--Amounts appropriated
pursuant to the amendments made by this section shall be
subject to the requirements contained in Public Law 117-328
for funds for programs authorized under sections 330 through
340 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b et
seq.).
(e) Conforming Amendment.--Section 3014(h)(4) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by striking ``and section
3101(d) of the Health Extensions and Other Matters Act,
2025'' and inserting ``section 3101(d) of the Health
Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2025, and section 2101(d)
of division B of the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and
Extensions Act, 2025''.

SEC. 2102. EXTENSION OF SPECIAL DIABETES PROGRAMS.

(a) Extension of Special Diabetes Programs for Type I
Diabetes.--Section 330B(b)(2) of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-2(b)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(G) $79,832,215 for the period beginning on April 1,
2025, and ending on September 30, 2025, to remain available
until expended.''.
(b) Extending Funding for Special Diabetes Programs for
Indians.--Section 330C(c)(2) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 254c-3(c)(2)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and

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(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(G) $79,832,215 for the period beginning on April 1,
2025, and ending on September 30, 2025, to remain available
until expended.''.

SEC. 2103. NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY EXTENSIONS.

(a) Section 319(e)(8) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 247d(e)(8)) is amended by striking ``March 31, 2025''
and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.
(b) Section 319L(e)(1)(D) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 247d-7e(e)(1)(D)) is amended by striking ``March
31, 2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.
(c) Section 319L-1(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 247d-7f(b)) is amended by striking ``March 31, 2025''
and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.
(d)(1) Section 2811A(g) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 300hh-10b(g)) is amended by striking ``March 31,
2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.
(2) Section 2811B(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 300hh-10c(g)(1)) is amended by striking ``March
31, 2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.
(3) Section 2811C(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 300hh-10d(g)(1)) is amended by striking ``March
31, 2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.
(e) Section 2812(c)(4)(B) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 300hh-11(c)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ``March
31, 2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.

TITLE II--MEDICARE

SEC. 2201. EXTENSION OF INCREASED INPATIENT HOSPITAL PAYMENT
ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN LOW-VOLUME HOSPITALS.

(a) In General.--Section 1886(d)(12) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(12)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``during the portion
of fiscal year 2025 beginning on April 1, 2025, and ending on
September 30, 2025, and'';
(2) in subparagraph (C)(i)--
(A) in the matter preceding subclause (I)--
(i) by striking ``or portion of a fiscal year''; and
(ii) by striking ``2024 and the portion of fiscal year 2025
beginning on October 1, 2024, and ending on March 31, 2025''
and inserting ``2025'';
(B) in subclause (III), by striking ``2024 and the portion
of fiscal year 2025 beginning on October 1, 2024, and ending
on March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``2025''; and
(C) in subclause (IV), by striking ``the portion of fiscal
year 2025 beginning on April 1, 2025, and ending on September
30, 2025, and''; and
(3) in subparagraph (D)--
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``2024
or during the portion of fiscal year 2025 beginning on
October 1, 2024, and ending on March 31, 2025'' and inserting
``2025''; and
(B) in clause (ii), by striking ``2024 and the portion of
fiscal year 2025 beginning on October 1, 2024, and ending on
March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``2025''.
(b) Implementation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may implement
the amendments made by this section by program instruction or
otherwise.

SEC. 2202. EXTENSION OF THE MEDICARE-DEPENDENT HOSPITAL (MDH)
PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--Section 1886(d)(5)(G) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(5)(G)) is amended--
(1) in clause (i), by striking ``April 1, 2025'' and
inserting ``October 1, 2025''; and
(2) in clause (ii)(II), by striking ``April 1, 2025'' and
inserting ``October 1, 2025''.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--
(1) In general.--Section 1886(b)(3)(D) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(b)(3)(D)) is amended--
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``April
1, 2025'' and inserting ``October 1, 2025''; and
(B) in clause (iv), by striking ``2024 and the portion of
fiscal year 2025 beginning on October 1, 2024, and ending on
March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``2025''.
(2) Permitting hospitals to decline reclassification.--
Section 13501(e)(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 1395ww note) is amended by striking
``2024, or the portion of fiscal year 2025 beginning on
October 1, 2024, and ending on March 31, 2025'' and inserting
``2025''.

SEC. 2203. EXTENSION OF ADD-ON PAYMENTS FOR AMBULANCE
SERVICES.

Section 1834(l) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395m(l)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (12)(A), by striking ``April 1, 2025'' and
inserting ``October 1, 2025''; and
(2) in paragraph (13), by striking ``April 1, 2025'' each
place it appears and inserting ``October 1, 2025'' in each
such place.

SEC. 2204. EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR QUALITY MEASURE
ENDORSEMENT, INPUT, AND SELECTION.

Section 1890(d)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395aaa(d)(2)) is amended--
(1) in the first sentence--
(A) by striking ``$11,030,000'' and inserting
``$14,030,000''; and
(B) by striking ``March 31, 2025'' and inserting
``September 30, 2025''; and
(2) in the third sentence, by striking ``March 31, 2025''
and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.

SEC. 2205. EXTENSION OF FUNDING OUTREACH AND ASSISTANCE FOR
LOW-INCOME PROGRAMS.

(a) State Health Insurance Assistance Programs.--Subsection
(a)(1)(B)(xiv) of section 119 of the Medicare Improvements
for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. 1395b-3
note) is amended by striking ``March 31, 2025, $22,500,000''
and inserting ``September 30, 2025, $30,000,000''.
(b) Area Agencies on Aging.--Subsection (b)(1)(B)(xiv) of
such section 119 is amended by striking ``March 31, 2025,
$22,500,000'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025,
$30,000,000''.
(c) Aging and Disability Resource Centers.--Subsection
(c)(1)(B)(xiv) of such section 119 is amended by striking
``March 31, 2025, $8,500,000'' and inserting ``September 30,
2025, $10,000,000''.
(d) Coordination of Efforts to Inform Older Americans About
Benefits Available Under Federal and State Programs.--
Subsection (d)(2)(xiv) of such section 119 is amended by
striking ``March 31, 2025, $22,500,000'' and inserting
``September 30, 2025, $30,000,000''.

SEC. 2206. EXTENSION OF THE WORK GEOGRAPHIC INDEX FLOOR.

Section 1848(e)(1)(E) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395w-4(e)(1)(E)) is amended by striking ``April 1, 2025''
and inserting ``October 1, 2025''.

SEC. 2207. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN TELEHEALTH FLEXIBILITIES.

(a) Removing Geographic Requirements and Expanding
Originating Sites for Telehealth Services.--Section 1834(m)
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (2)(B)(iii), by striking ``ending March
31, 2025'' and inserting ``ending September 30, 2025''; and
(2) in paragraph (4)(C)(iii), by striking ``ending on March
31, 2025'' and inserting ``ending on September 30, 2025''.
(b) Expanding Practitioners Eligible To Furnish Telehealth
Services.--Section 1834(m)(4)(E) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(4)(E)) is amended by striking ``ending on
March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``ending on September 30,
2025''.
(c) Extending Telehealth Services for Federally Qualified
Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics.--Section
1834(m)(8)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395m(m)(8)(A)) is amended by striking ``ending on March 31,
2025'' and inserting ``ending on September 30, 2025''.
(d) Delaying the In-Person Requirements Under Medicare for
Mental Health Services Furnished Through Telehealth and
Telecommunications Technology.--
(1) Delay in requirements for mental health services
furnished through telehealth.--Section 1834(m)(7)(B)(i) of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(7)(B)(i)) is
amended, in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking
``on or after April 1, 2025'' and inserting ``on or after
October 1, 2025,''.
(2) Mental health visits furnished by rural health
clinics.--Section 1834(y)(2) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395m(y)(2)) is amended by striking ``April 1, 2025''
and inserting ``October 1, 2025''.
(3) Mental health visits furnished by federally qualified
health centers.--Section 1834(o)(4)(B) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(o)(4)(B)) is amended by striking ``April
1, 2025'' and inserting ``October 1, 2025''.
(e) Allowing for the Furnishing of Audio-only Telehealth
Services.--Section 1834(m)(9) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395m(m)(9)) is amended by striking ``ending on March
31, 2025'' and inserting ``ending on September 30, 2025''.
(f) Extending Use of Telehealth To Conduct Face-to-Face
Encounter Prior to Recertification of Eligibility for Hospice
Care.--Section 1814(a)(7)(D)(i)(II) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395f(a)(7)(D)(i)(II)) is amended by striking
``ending on March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``ending on
September 30, 2025''.
(g) Program Instruction Authority.--The Secretary of Health
and Human Services may implement the amendments made by this
section through program instruction or otherwise.

SEC. 2208. EXTENDING ACUTE HOSPITAL CARE AT HOME WAIVER
AUTHORITIES.

Section 1866G(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395cc-7(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``March 31, 2025'' and
inserting ``September 30, 2025''.

SEC. 2209. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY INCLUSION OF AUTHORIZED
ORAL ANTIVIRAL DRUGS AS COVERED PART D DRUGS.

Section 1860D-2(e)(1)(C) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1395w-102(e)(1)(C)) is amended by striking ``March 31,
2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.

SEC. 2210. MEDICARE IMPROVEMENT FUND.

Section 1898(b)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1395iii(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``$1,251,000,000'' and
inserting ``$1,804,000,000''.

SEC. 2211. MEDICARE SEQUESTRATION.

Section 251A(6)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901a(6)(D)) is
amended--
(1) in clause (i), by striking ``8 months'' and inserting
``10 months''; and
(2) in clause (ii), by striking ``4 months'' and inserting
``2 months''.

TITLE III--HUMAN SERVICES

SEC. 2301. SEXUAL RISK AVOIDANCE EDUCATION EXTENSION.

Section 510 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 710) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1)--
(A) by striking ``the period beginning on October 1, 2024,
and ending on March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``fiscal year
2025''; and

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(B) by striking ``or 2025''; and
(2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``the period
beginning on October 1, 2024, and ending on March 31, 2025,
an amount equal to the pro rata portion of the amount
appropriated for the corresponding period for'' and inserting
``for fiscal year 2025, an amount equal to the amount
appropriated for''.

SEC. 2302. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY EDUCATION EXTENSION.

Section 513 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 713) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1)--
(A) in subparagraph (A), in the matter preceding clause
(i), by striking ``the period beginning on October 1, 2024,
and ending on March 31, 2025'' and inserting ``fiscal year
2025''; and
(B) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking ``the period
beginning on October 1, 2024, and ending on March 31, 2025''
and inserting ``fiscal year 2025''; and
(2) in subsection (f), by striking ``the period beginning
on October 1, 2024, and ending on March 31, 2025, an amount
equal to the pro rata portion of the amount appropriated for
the corresponding period'' and inserting ``fiscal year 2025,
an amount equal to the amount appropriated for fiscal year
2024''.

SEC. 2303. EXTENSION OF FUNDING FOR FAMILY-TO-FAMILY HEALTH
INFORMATION CENTERS.

Section 501(c)(1)(A)(viii) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 701(c)(1)(A)(viii)) is amended by striking
``$3,000,000 for the portion of fiscal year 2025 before April
1, 2025.'' and inserting ``$6,000,000 for fiscal year 2025''.

TITLE IV--MEDICAID

SEC. 2401. DELAYING MEDICAID DSH REDUCTIONS.

Section 1923(f)(7)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396r-4(f)(7)(A)) is amended--
(1) in clause (i)--
(A) in the matter preceding subclause (I)--
(i) by striking ``For the period beginning April 1, 2025,
and ending September 30, 2025, and for'' and inserting
``For''; and
(ii) by striking ``through 2027'' and inserting ``through
2028'';
(B) in subclause (I), by striking ``or period''; and
(C) in subclause (II), by striking ``or period''; and
(2) in clause (ii)--
(A) by striking ``for the period beginning April 1, 2025,
and ending September 30, 2025, and''; and
(B) by striking ``through 2027'' and inserting ``through
2028''.

DIVISION C--OTHER MATTERS

SEC. 3101. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION WHISTLEBLOWER
PROGRAM.

Section 1(b) of Public Law 117-25 (135 Stat. 297; 136 Stat.
2133; 136 Stat. 5984) is amended in each of paragraphs (3)
and (4) by striking ``March 14, 2025'' and inserting
``September 30, 2025''.

SEC. 3102. PROTECTION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES AND ASSETS FROM
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT.

Section 210G(i) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6
U.S.C. 124n(i)) is amended by striking ``March 14, 2025'' and
inserting ``September 30, 2025''.

SEC. 3103. ADDITIONAL SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.

Section 3014 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
striking ``March 14, 2025'' and inserting ``September 30,
2025''.

SEC. 3104. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY PROTECTION SYSTEM
AUTHORIZATION.

Section 227(a) of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015 (6 U.S.C. 1525(a)) is amended by striking ``March 14,
2025'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.

SEC. 3105. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY ORDER FOR FENTANYL-RELATED
SUBSTANCES.

Effective as if included in the enactment of the Temporary
Reauthorization and Study of the Emergency Scheduling of
Fentanyl Analogues Act (Public Law 116-114), section 2 of
such Act is amended by striking ``March 31, 2025'' and
inserting ``September 30, 2025''.

SEC. 3106. BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

(a) Statutory PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary effects of
divisions B and C shall not be entered on either PAYGO
scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
(b) Senate PAYGO Scorecards.--The budgetary effects of
divisions B and C shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard
maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71
(115th Congress).
(c) Classification of Budgetary Effects.--Notwithstanding
Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the
joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference
accompanying Conference Report 105-217 and section 250(c)(8)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, the budgetary effects of divisions B and C shall not be
estimated--
(1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act;
(2) for purposes of an allocation to the Committee on
Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and
(3) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 3 of the
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being included in an
appropriation Act.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill, as amended, shall be debatable for
1 hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority
member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective
designees.
The gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) and the gentlewoman from
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole).

General Leave

Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may
have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and
include extraneous material on the measure under consideration.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Oklahoma?
There was no objection.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1968, the Full-Year
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act 2025.
Today's bill comes about at a critical time for this institution and
this Nation. As Members are well aware, government funding all runs out
at midnight on Friday. That means that Members are faced with a stark
but clear choice: Will they vote in favor of this bill and thereby keep
the government open and operating, or will they vote ``no'' thereby
affirmatively choosing to shut down the government? This choice is the
choice we face today.
We are now nearly 5\1/2\ months into the fiscal year 2025. Congress
has previously passed two short-term continuing resolutions, both of
which extended government funding and kept the status quo in place,
ensuring the government can remain open.
Today's bill is really no different than the CR passed in December.
Other than the most essential and critical anomalies, it simply
maintains current conditions through the end of the fiscal year.
For those that supported the CR in December, you should have no
qualms about voting the same way on today's bill. There are no policy
differences, no poison pills, and no reason to vote against keeping the
government open and operating.
A yearlong CR is not how I hoped the FY 2025 appropriations process
would end. The Appropriations Committee and the House did their work.
Indeed, the committee reported out all 12 appropriations bills by
midsummer and the House passed five of those bills covering over 70
percent of discretionary spending across the floor by the end of July.
Sadly, despite our best efforts, we were unable to come to a final
agreement on the full-year appropriations bills. Although we were very
close on a final dollar figure, my colleagues in the minority made
additional demands that would restrict the legitimate authority of the
executive and the appropriations process. These are restrictions that
the minority would never accept for a Democratic President, nor are
they provisions that President Trump would or should sign into law.
It is deeply unfortunate and disappointing that the minority chose to
make these unreasonable demands. Republicans never left the negotiating
table and indeed worked diligently with Democrats to reach a bicameral,
bipartisan deal.
Sadly, the minority allowed their opposition to the President to
cloud their judgment, giving in to a political temper tantrum rather
than voting to keep the government open.
That truly is the choice before us, Mr. Speaker. Today's bill is a
simple, straightforward continuing resolution, funding the government
and keeping it open through September 30. It maintains the status quo,
providing flat funding for the government, and including only
legitimate anomalies.
Importantly, this bill does not contain a single poison pill policy
rider. It is a clean CR, fully funding our government. This includes
our military and defense needs, and indeed we have accomplished this
while also fully funding the Department of Defense, including the
largest pay raise for junior enlisted personnel in over 40 years.
We are also maintaining funding for other critical functions of
government, including border defense, roads, parks, childcare, water
infrastructure projects, biomedical research, job training, and
countless others.
I know Members have heard some fear-mongering about Social Security,
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makes no changes to any of these programs, leaving them intact, as is,
and with the funding they need to operate through the end of the fiscal
year.
Let me say that again. There are no changes to Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid, period.
Mr. Speaker, the outcome of the fiscal year 2025 appropriations
process is not what I wanted, but at the end of the day, it is
significantly better than the alternative: a government shutdown.
The choice is clear: Either Members will vote for this bill and for
keeping the government open, or they will vote to shut the government
down. I know which option my constituents expect, and I know which I
will choose.
I urge all my colleagues to do the same and vote for this bill. I
urge all my colleagues to vote to keep the government open and
operating.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to this 1-year continuing resolution. It is
not a simple stopgap that keeps the lights on and the doors open. This
is Republican leadership handing over the keys of the government and a
blank check to Elon Musk and to President Trump.
As the White House has said, this bill creates more flexibility for
this administration to continue to undermine the Constitution and the
countless spending laws by stealing promised investments from American
families, children, and businesses, unlawfully dismantling agencies,
arbitrarily firing civil servants, and canceling union contracts.
Read the Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: The power of
the purse resides with the Congress and not with the executive. In
fact, the President has no legitimate authority to meddle in the
appropriations process.

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Mr. Speaker, our colleagues across the aisle have gone to their
districts and witnessed rage from their constituents at these actions.
They have been advised by their political consultants not to do
townhalls altogether. Why bother listening to the American people?
It was President Lincoln who said public sentiment is everything, and
without it, you can do nothing. They do not have public sentiment.
Now, what should we do? The answer should not be cutting nondefense
programs by $15 billion and defense by $3 billion, as compared to the
Fiscal Responsibility Act agreement for 2025.
They are in violation of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. There was an
agreement with Senator Schumer and Speaker Johnson. We all voted for it
here. This is a violation that cuts nondefense by $15 billion and
defense by $3 billion.
Why do they want to shortchange defense investments by $3 billion, I
ask them. Not only is it bad for our military--there is a reason the
Department of Defense has never operated for an entire year under a
continuing resolution--but, above all, it transfers more power to the
administration to shut off and repurpose funding as they see fit.
The will of the Congress and the people would be ignored. Elon Musk
and President Trump would be able to fire thousands of employees.
Yes, we do not oversee Social Security. That is in the purview of the
Ways and Means Committee. However, we do have control over the
administration on Social Security, and the President and Elon Musk
would be able to fire thousands of employees at the Social Security
Administration. Just witness, they are talking about 7,000 positions
gone.
What does that result in? Office closures, longer wait times, and
unacceptable backlogs for Americans trying to access their earned
benefits. In effect, you remove the staff and personnel, thereby
crippling the agency to be able to do its job and, yes, to provide
benefits.
It is nice if you can individually negotiate with the administration
on your own to keep your Social Security office open. There are 47 on
the docket to get closed. If one stays open, why not all 47?
Army Corps of Engineers construction projects would be cut by $1.4
billion, 44 percent, and President Trump, not the Congress, would
determine who gets the funding--what cities, States, and localities--
and how much money that is there.
Instead of helping to address housing costs, the bill cuts rent
subsidies by over $700 million. It leaves landlords to foot the bill or
to evict. We will evict more than 32,000 households.
This bill breaks promises to veterans. House Republicans wisely
proposed $23 billion in advance funding for the toxic exposures fund to
care for veterans who were exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and
other toxic substances. In their bill last summer, it was in there. We
voted for the PACT Act on a bipartisan basis, but that $23 billion in
advance funding has now disappeared. It is gone.
We do advance funding here. We do it with veterans programs and
others. We do it with the Indian Health Service. We do it for public
broadcasting. Why do we not want to do it for veterans' care, their
healthcare and treatment? Why? If I were a veteran and they said no to
my advance funding--and we do advance funding so that issues like
veterans' medical care don't get caught up in the political whims of
this organization, of this body. Veterans today have to understand that
that $23 billion for them is not there. There is uncertainty about
that.
There is no emergency funding in this bill for disaster relief. It
abandons American families who have had their lives turned upside-down
by extreme weather. The funding for the disaster relief runs out in the
spring.
What about Kentucky that just had a winter storm in February?
Families will not be able to get back on their feet and recover.
Neither will businesses that have been shut down because of a natural
disaster.
The decisions about investments that we make cannot be entrusted in
one single officeholder. This Congress must decide: Do we have the
authority to control spending as we were granted and as laid out in
Article I of the Constitution?
Why would we want to relinquish this, to give power to this
administration, which is already doing massive harm by dismantling
agencies, firing people, telling them today they are no longer needed?
With the chaos and confusion that has been caused by Elon Musk and
President Trump, why would we want to turn over our authority to
appropriate bills?
I implore my colleagues to join me and stand up for our constituents
against an unelected billionaire, Elon Musk, who is stealing taxpayer
dollars from American families, children, and businesses. Oppose this
giveaway to the administration. Pass a short-term CR, which I
introduced yesterday, which would take us to April 11, to continue
negotiations. Let us finish the regular bills that we agree on. That
would be such an improvement over a full-year continuing resolution.
I say to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that a shutdown
will be the result of the Republican majority walking away from
negotiations. We were that close. They pulled the rug out from under us
and said to stop negotiating because Musk and Trump want to have the
control with a full-year continuing resolution.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from
Missouri (Mr. Alford), my very good friend and a distinguished member
of the Appropriations Committee.
Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Speaker, I will just preface my remarks by saying how
much respect I have for the ranking member and her passionate
arguments. Although we don't agree, I respect her highly.
Mr. Speaker, America broke up with the progressive Democrats, but
they just can't let it go. In the words of Glenn Close, they will not
be ignored. They are like the ex in the 1987 movie ``Fatal
Attraction,'' the ex who got dumped and is stuck in a deranged reality,
refusing to move on.

They are causing chaos, spreading mistruths, and doing everything
they can to disrupt what the American people voted for, all because
they cannot accept that their Big Government, open-border, America-last
agenda is over.
We saw it just last week in this very Chamber, Mr. Speaker. We see it
when we go back home to try to have conversations with our
constituents. It is quite simple: House Republicans are

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here to govern. We are passing a continuing resolution to keep America
open for business, freeze wasteful spending, and secure our border.
This continuing resolution gives President Trump the time and power
to continue draining the swamp and undoing the damage the radical left
did to our country for the past 4 long years.
What is the far left doing? They are throwing a tantrum, a childish,
petulant tantrum full of fear-mongering and gaslighting of the American
people, rooting for a shutdown just so they can point fingers.
Let me tell you something, Mr. Speaker. It is not going to work. We
are not falling for it. We are not playing this game. This will be a
Schumer shutdown when it gets to the Senate if that happens.
The American people chose secure borders, a secure economy, secure
neighborhoods, and an America First agenda. The progressive Democrats
just can't accept it.
Guess what, Mr. Speaker. This breakup is final. Republicans are
moving on. We will pass this CR. We will keep America running.
I urge progressive Democrats to join the rest of the Nation. It is
that or they can keep screaming into the void because America is not
taking them back. The breakup is over. Leave the rabbit in the backyard
alone.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New
York (Mr. Jeffries), the distinguished Democratic leader.
Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentlewoman for
her tremendous leadership and for yielding.
I don't really understand the ``Fatal Attraction'' reference because
if anyone is dealing with fatal attraction, it is between President
Trump and House Republicans. As soon as he says jump, their only answer
is: ``How high?'' It doesn't matter whether they are hurting the
American people.
That is why House Republicans are marching the country on a track
toward the largest Medicaid cut in American history. It will hurt
children, families, Americans with disabilities, and seniors. It will
close nursing homes and hospitals.
When Donald Trump says, ``Jump,'' extreme MAGA Republicans say, ``How
high?'' That is the fatal attraction that is hurting the people of the
United States of America.
By the way, the core promise that they made last year was about
lowering costs. All they talked about was how they were going to lower
the high cost of living.
Democrats believe that America is too expensive. Housing costs are
too high. Grocery costs are too high. Childcare costs are too high.
Utility costs are too high. Insurance costs are too high.
America is too expensive. We believe that that, in fact, is the case,
but Republicans have done nothing to lower the high cost of living--no
bill, no executive order, no administrative action. That is the broken
promise.
We were told by President Trump that costs were going to go down on
day one. Grocery prices haven't gone down; they have gone up. Inflation
is up.
Do you know what is going down? The stock market. It is because
President Trump and House Republicans are crashing the economy in real
time and marching us to a possible Republican recession. That is what
is confronting the American people.
Now, we have this partisan, reckless spending bill that we are being
asked to consider on the floor today. Bipartisan negotiations were
underway. Rosa DeLauro was at the table, working to reach an agreement
consistent with the Fiscal Responsibility Act that was passed by
Republicans and Democrats and then signed into law in 2023, but when
Donald Trump says, ``Jump,'' extreme MAGA Republicans say, ``How
high?'' He ordered the Republicans to leave the negotiating table to
try to jam this far-right, extremist bill down the throats of the
American people.
There are so many challenges with this bill, too many to detail, but
let me just articulate a few.
The House Republican, highly partisan, shutdown-threatening bill is
an attack on veterans. It is an attack on families. It is an attack on
seniors. It cuts funding for veterans, including billions of dollars in
funds that will be cut from veterans in desperate need of healthcare
for people who served this country and who are suffering from painful
exposure to toxic substances, Agent Orange, and burn pits. This bill
before this House cuts billions of dollars in that healthcare that is
desperately needed. That is an attack on veterans.
It is an attack on children and families in America because this bill
cuts funding for nutritional assistance that would otherwise be
available for everyday Americans to put food on the table when people
are already struggling because grocery prices aren't going down. They
are going up under this administration. Yet, this Republican bill will
cut funding for nutritional assistance. That is an attack on children
and families here in America.
It is an attack on seniors, an attack on everyday Americans, an
attack on housing, an attack on healthcare. It cuts funds from things
like Alzheimer's research to help older Americans battle these
challenges.
That is what this extreme Republican bill is all about. It will hurt
families, hurt seniors, and hurt veterans.

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Mr. Speaker, the second problem, equally troublesome, is that this
bill does nothing to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
We have been very clear. As Democrats, we look forward in this Congress
to protecting these vitally important priorities for the American
people.
Why is the bill silent on these priorities? The Republicans are
trying to set in motion a chain saw to Social Security, a chain saw to
Medicare, and a chain saw to Medicaid. Yesterday, their other boss
confirmed that when he talked about these entitlement programs, as he
called them. They are not entitlement programs. They are earned
benefits.
Mr. Speaker, when you start to use the language of entitlement
programs, it is because you are trying to set in motion an assault on
Social Security and an assault on Medicare. They are saying the quiet
part out loud.
We know they are going after Social Security and Medicare because
they have been firing thousands of people from the Social Security
Administration. They want to collapse the system, and this bill does
nothing to stop that. All it does is facilitate the collapse of Social
Security by dismantling the Social Security Administration.
Of course, we know what is going on with the assault on Medicaid,
$880 billion, assaulting the healthcare of the American people. We have
been very clear. We will work together to protect Social Security,
protect Medicare, and protect Medicaid. They have no interest in doing
that because they want to take a chain saw to these priorities.
By the way, it has nothing to do with waste, fraud, and abuse. As
Democrats, we have been very clear. We want to build a Federal
Government and make sure that we have a Federal Government that is
effective, that is efficient, and that is equitable, delivering
services all across the country in a manner that spends taxpayer
dollars wisely.
That is not what this effort is all about. This bill will unleash
fury on the American people. It will facilitate the ongoing effort that
is currently underway. The average Social Security recipient in this
country receives $65 a day. They have to survive on $65 a day, but the
Republicans want to take a chain saw to Social Security, when Elon Musk
and his tens of billions of dollars of government contracts essentially
makes at least $8 billion a day from the taxpayers.
If we want to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse, start there. Don't
start with the $65 a day that Social Security recipients receive from
their earned benefits and from their hard work throughout their entire
life. Start there. Elon Musk is feeding at the trough of the American
taxpayer for $8 billion a day.
This bill has nothing to do with waste, fraud, and abuse. It is all
part of a broader scheme to pass massive tax cuts for billionaire
donors, the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected, and then to
stick working-class Americans with the bill. That is the entire scheme.
As Democrats, we want no part of it because we are fighting hard to
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want to make sure that when people work hard and play by the rules in
the United States of America, they should be able to provide a
comfortable living for themselves and for their family, educate their
children, purchase a home, have access to healthcare, go on vacation
every now and then, and one day retire with grace and with dignity.
That is the American Dream we, as House Democrats, are fighting to
preserve. This Republican shutdown bill does nothing to enhance the
American Dream. It undermines it, which is why we are strongly opposed
to this effort. It is part of a power grab from those who are
unelected, unaccountable, unhinged, and then working at the direction
of this administration which, again, has done nothing to improve the
economy, nothing to lower costs, and nothing to make life better for
everyday Americans. This reckless Republican bill will make things
worse.
Mr. Speaker, I was in Selma over the weekend. We had an opportunity
to once again cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Think about the fact that
John Lewis and Amelia Boynton Robinson and Hosea Williams and so many
others, as they stood on that bridge, knew there was trouble on the
other side. Even though there was trouble on the other side, they
believed that their cause was righteous, and it was. It was a just one.
It was designed to make America the best version of herself.
We stand here today, standing on their shoulders, continuing that
effort. How do we make sure that the American Dream is alive and well
for everyone, in every corner of America, and throughout every
community? That is what House Democrats will continue to fight for.
That is why we oppose this bill, this effort to hurt families and
veterans and seniors and children and everyday Americans.
We are going to continue to show up. We are going to continue to
stand up. We are going to continue to speak up for what is right. We
oppose this bill. We oppose this partisan effort to hurt the American
people, and we will continue to stand on the side of bringing the
American Dream to life for every single American.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I have great respect for the Democratic leader and
certainly great respect and personal friendship for the distinguished
ranking member of the Appropriations Committee.
I don't know what bill the leader read, but it certainly wasn't this
bill. We heard a lot about Social Security. There is not a single thing
in this bill on Social Security. We heard a lot about Medicare. We
don't deal with Medicare under the Appropriations Committee. It is not
in here. We heard a lot about Medicaid. It is not in here either. If it
will be dealt with, it will be dealt with in a reconciliation bill but
not this bill.
This bill is about keeping the government open, something my friends
pride themselves on and have often patted themselves on the back on.
They have the opportunity to do it today because that is all this bill
does. It also does a couple of other interesting things.

My friend said we cut funds for food support. It doesn't do that. It
actually adds $500 million to WIC.
They said we cut support for housing. It doesn't do that. It actually
adds money to the housing accounts.
If we actually go through the bill, the charges made simply don't
have much to do with what is in this bill.
The simple reality is we are either going to keep the government open
or we are going to shut it down. If we want to keep the government open
and keep working on these problems, vote ``yes.'' If we want to shut
the government down and throw the country into chaos, vote ``no.''
It is certainly the privilege of my friends on the other side to vote
how they care to vote, but don't say there are things in this bill
which simply are not there. That is just fear-mongering of the worst
sort.
Mr. Speaker, again, I urge my friends to keep the government open. By
the way, just for the record, neither the President nor the Speaker
ever asked me to leave the negotiating table. It was quite the
opposite. The Speaker said to keep going, to keep trying, and to keep
at it.
We are 4 days away from the shutdown. My friends introduced a lot of
things in the negotiations that aren't normally appropriations issues.
They chose to do that. We couldn't come to a deal. We are pretty close
on the top-line number. We were right there, but we are not going to
have a Republican Senate and a Republican House restrict a Republican
President from the legitimate exercise of executive authority and then,
oh, by the way, ask him to sign the bill.
How do my colleagues think that is going to work out? That is not a
very reasonable request. We resisted it. My friend, Senator Collins,
who is my negotiating partner from the Senate, resisted it and will
continue to resist it. That is not going to happen.
This bill is about none of those things. This bill is about keeping
the government open. If they choose to shut it down, then that is their
prerogative. They are allowed to do that, but I don't intend to do
that. I don't think my colleagues on my side of the aisle intend to do
that.
Mr. Speaker, I urge Democrats who actually read the bill to reflect
on it and avoid shutting down the government as well and working with
us in that regard.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the President has no legitimate authority
by the Constitution to insert himself into the appropriations process.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr.
Hoyer), the distinguishing ranking member of the Financial Services and
General Government Subcommittee.
Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I
adopt all of what the leader said, notwithstanding the rebuttal from
the chairman of our committee.
Mr. Speaker, this bill is about giving Trump more unfettered power.
That is what this bill is about. This country has been in crisis and
chaos over the last 45-plus days, and this bill will continue that
process.
The Congress, if it passes this bill, will have failed. We should
have passed all of our bills by September 30 of last year. We didn't.
We then passed, as some of the Republicans have said, some
appropriation bills. All of them were partisan bills.
This is a partisan bill. In a Congress that is that close, I would
think that we would come together and work together. One of our Members
said that if Trump says pat our heads and jump up and down, that is
what we will do. Welcome to the pat our heads and jump up and down CR.
A CR is failure. The majority puts forth its partisan CR that helps
this administration dismantle vital services for the American people,
outlined by our leader, rejecting any guardrails on these illegal and
unconstitutional actions by Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump. It is that chain
saw they want to take to Federal employees and the Federal Government.
This bill requires the District of Columbia, for instance, to take a
$1.1 billion cut, not out of Federal funds but out of their own funds
that they tax their people. It defunds the police.
Mr. Speaker, I wish I had more time to say how bad this bill is. Vote
``no.''
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the distinguished
gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the Republican majority leader
and my good friend.
Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole),
the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, for his leadership
in helping negotiate a really important bill to keep the government
funded.
As has been duly noted along the way, over this past year, roughly 6
months in this House, the last majority in the last Congress passed
over 70 percent of the government funding bills, Mr. Speaker. We passed
them to the Senate. Back then, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats were in
charge, and they chose not to pass a single House appropriations bill,
not one.
The House under Republican majority, not always with help from the
other side but we still got it done on our own, passed over 70 percent
of the government funding bills. Eventually it got to a point where we
had to let the Senate try to get something done which, unfortunately,
they didn't. Then we got to the verge of a shutdown. We said we are not
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{time} 1615

Here we are again on the eve of another potential shutdown, and this
Republican majority said we are not going to let that happen. In fact,
this Republican President Donald Trump said we are not going to let
that happen either. It would be irresponsible to have a government
shutdown.
Maybe it is because Donald Trump said he is for it that then the
Democrat leadership decided they were going to be against it. When did
they decide they were going to be against this bill? They decided this
before the bill was even written. Before it was filed, they came out
against it and started saying things that were in the bill when it
wasn't even written, Mr. Speaker.
You heard them talking about cuts to Medicare, cuts to veterans. The
bill wasn't even written, and they were already making up stories to
try to figure out how to vote ``no'' and shut the government down. That
is sadly where this Democratic Party has gotten.
The Democratic Party of today is a leaderless, rudderless ship. They
don't have an agenda. You saw it at the State of the Union, Mr.
Speaker, when you saw President Trump--not only laying out his agenda--
that 77 million people, a majority of Americans, went to the polls to
elect. That is the mandate that President Trump got, not just with the
majority of Americans and a majority of the electoral college but all
seven--seven out of seven swing States all voted for President Trump
because they wanted that agenda implemented.
You know what irritates the Democrats the most? What irritates them
the most is the fact that President Trump is following through on the
promises that he made, actually doing the things he said he would do.
He is securing the border. That was the number one issue all across
this country. No matter which State you went to, people wanted a secure
border. He is following through on it, and yet the Democratic Party is
criticizing him for doing that part of his job.
Rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in government is something that
should be bipartisan. In fact, it used to be bipartisan to root out
waste, fraud, and abuse, but now, because Donald Trump is doing it, the
Democratic Party of today up here in Washington is so consumed with
hatred that they oppose even rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse that
has been not only highlighted up here but people around the country are
talking about getting rid of that waste once they have seen it.
A lot of this was a veil that was pulled down where people couldn't
even find out what was going on because the payment systems were being
hidden by the Biden administration. We couldn't even find out about a
lot of that spending that we were anecdotally hearing about, but
finally you saw it on full display. It was so embarrassing that some of
those employees have left.
Fortunately, a lot of that taxpayer money that was being wasted is
now being saved, and the money is being recouped so that we can shore
up programs that work vitally for people.
The President talked about Social Security, a program that we help
protect. When you have got somebody that is listed as 300 years old in
the Social Security system, that shows you the kind of fraud and abuse
that is going on. President Trump is willing to confront that and take
it on so that people who actually paid into the program their whole
lives can get the benefits they deserve.
That is what people elected President Trump and this majority on the
Republican side to do. You would think Democrats would want to join in
and help accomplish that, and yet here they are on this floor talking
about things that aren't even in the bill, trying to scare people. They
are talking about cuts to veterans in the bill, and maybe it is because
they just didn't read the bill. It is only 99 pages long. I would urge
them to go read it. They might actually vote for this bill in the next
hour because they will realize, in fact, the cuts that they are talking
about are not true. They are not in the bill.
There is an increase for veterans in this bill. You know what else is
in this bill, Mr. Speaker? I again applaud the chairman of the
Appropriations Committee and his members for negotiating something that
has been needed for a long time, and that is the largest pay raise for
our junior enlisted military personnel in over 40 years. Now, if
somebody doesn't think our men and women in uniform deserve that pay
raise, maybe they will vote ``no.'' I am proud to say I am going to be
voting ``yes'' to support our men and women in uniform who have been
waiting for that raise and deserve it. How can you justify a ``no''
vote on that, Mr. Speaker? That is actually in the bill.
As they talk all day about what is not in the bill because they were
against it before it was even written, if they actually read this bill,
again only 99 pages, it is a pretty quick read, you would find out that
that pay raise for our troops is in the bill. Stronger funding for our
veterans is in the bill.
Why are they voting ``no,'' you would ask? It is just because the
name of the President is Donald Trump.
I think the people of this country are fed up with that kind of
hatred that consumes people here in Washington.
Again, when you watch the State of the Union Address, and the
President is not even talking about his agenda, he is introducing and
paying tribute to a 13-year-old boy who just beat cancer, they couldn't
even stand up and applaud that on their side because of the person who
said it? If the hatred is so consuming that you can't even support what
is great about America, maybe you need to reevaluate what is important
in doing these jobs.
We are elected to represent the people, and if the President, no
matter who he is or she is, has a great idea, you support it.
There were a lot of things about Barack Obama's policies I disagreed
with, Mr. Speaker, yet, when he said something that was good for
America at a State of the Union Address, I stood up. We actually worked
with the President. The chairman was part of that, Chairman Cole, in
passing the 21st Century Cures Act, the last bill that Barack Obama
signed to help put more funding in the NIH so we could cure major
diseases. We protect those gains in this bill.

If they are advocating to vote ``no,'' they are advocating for a
government shutdown. It is a binary choice. It is not like there is a
plan B behind door number two, Mr. Speaker. If the plan is to vote
``no,'' what you are really saying is you want to shut down the
government.
We all get to bring a guest to the State of the Union, and they get
to sit up in the balcony. You have the First Lady and the President's
guests up there. Again, there was the 13-year-old boy who beat cancer
who was a guest. The widow of a slain police officer was in the
balcony, and Democrats would not even applaud and pay tribute to her.
They were there. Everybody else got to bring a guest.
Most Democrats bragged that they were bringing Federal workers as
their guests. You saw a lot of them holding rallies in front of Federal
offices with Federal employees, some of whom hadn't shown up for work
in 3 years since COVID, but they found their way to the office not to
work but to protest. Democrats are about to vote to furlough all of
those Federal workers. Why? Not because of what is in the bill. They
have been telling you stories that aren't even true about what is in
the bill. They don't like it because of the name of the President of
the United States.
Aren't we bigger than that? Aren't we a better country than that, Mr.
Speaker?
This is our responsibility to get this job done and then turn the
page and go to work. This is the business, frankly, of the Biden
administration that we are cleaning up, and we all ought to join
together and finish that and then come together and start a real
appropriations process where we move not just 70 percent of the bills
in the House and zero in the Senate.
Senator Thune, to his credit as the new majority leader, has vowed to
actually work on a true appropriations process so we are not working at
the midnight hour on CRs but where we can actually have a fully
functioning appropriations process, something we haven't seen in this
town in a long time.
We have to first take care of yesterday's business before we can
start on tomorrow's appropriations process. It is critical that we get
this job done, not to vote to lay off and furlough all the Federal
workers and the TSA agents. You won't even be able to go to the airport
or your favorite Federal park if they got their way.

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Let's actually get our work done so we can start a 12-bill
appropriations process that moves through the Senate too where you can
actually have a negotiation between two sides of the aisle, again,
something we haven't seen in a long time but is long past due.
It is a new day in America, and I applaud President Trump. This
morning we had Vice President JD Vance come and talk about the
importance of passing this bill because they want to fix the problems
of this Nation. They want to fulfill the promises that were made during
the campaign and follow through on the mandate that was given to
President Trump, Vice President Vance, and this Republican majority in
the House and Senate by 77 million people to turn this country around.
Let's get back to being the greatest country in the history of the
world. We can do it. We can come together and solve big problems. We
solve big problems by first taking care of the basics of government and
that is to keep the government open.
Let's pass this CR. Let's see a big vote to do it, too. I welcome
both sides of the aisle. My friends on the other side, they can
criticize a bill they have never read that wasn't even filed, but once
they look at this bill, I think you might even see some of them vote
``yes,'' as well.
Let's get our work done, and let's move on to the next challenges
that the American people expect us to deliver for them.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the President did make a promise to drive
down the cost of living. Instead, he has driven up prices.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts
(Ms. Clark), the distinguished Democratic whip.
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from
Connecticut for yielding.
Republicans made a promise to the American people. We are going to
build a stronger economy, we are going to lower costs, and we are going
to have safer communities.
For 7 weeks we have seen nothing but ideas and bills that break that
promise. We all want government to run more efficiently, to be better
for people who depend on it, but stealing money from the Veterans
Administration, from schools, from law enforcement, from children's
healthcare and giving it to a tax cut to the wealthiest man on Earth
and his billionaire friends is not finding efficiencies. That is not
taking on waste and fraud in government. It is destroying working
families.
The GOP are crushing the American people under the weight of their
own political ambition. Rents are going up. Housing is in a crisis.
This bill today, they propose to evict 32,000 families from their
homes, 32,000. Those are veterans. Those are kids. Those are seniors.
Those are domestic violence survivors.
Eggs at my grocery store on Sunday were $8.49 a dozen. In this bill,
Republicans propose to take $27 million away from the inspectors who go
out to our chicken farms who are fighting and trying to stop bird flu
that is causing the spike in the price of eggs. What kind of insanity
is that?
Then if we look at the budget overall, we have got healthcare
spiking, and you want to cut Medicaid. That is the answer? Seniors'
cost of living is out of control, and Republicans are saying let's run
up the cost of prescription drugs. As Elon told us directly this week,
coming next Republicans want to eliminate Social Security.
If Republicans feel this is the mandate that they have, they can do
that on their own.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Idaho
(Mr. Simpson), my good friend and a senior member of the Appropriations
Committee.

Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding. First,
let me say I appreciate the work the chairman has done over the last
several months trying to get our regular appropriations bills done and
then trying to get this CR finished when it became apparent we weren't
going to be able to negotiate a top line yet, something that we will
continue to work on.
There have been a lot of things said on this floor that I have to say
just aren't true. It is not a different interpretation of the facts.
They are just not true. There is nothing in here that cuts Social
Security. There is nothing in here that cuts Medicare. There is nothing
in here that cuts Medicaid. Yet, I keep hearing that.
These are the talking points that were created before this bill was
actually written. It is difficult to write a year-long CR. This is the
first time I can remember it being done. It is almost harder writing
that than it is writing the regular appropriation bills because we have
to put anomalies in it, things that have to be done as we move on with
the regular funding.
The reason I have been able to support this CR and will vote for it
is because of the work that our chairman, Mr. Cole, has done with some
of these anomalies that were absolutely necessary.
In the Interior arena there were four anomalies that really needed to
be addressed to get this CR done. One is it fully funds PILT payments,
which is an estimated level of $600 million, which is $85 million above
what was the current level. In Indian Country, the CR increases funding
for Indian Health Services to expand availability and direct healthcare
services funding the Bureau of Indian Affairs. BIA and BIE programs are
held at 2024 enacted levels. The CR removes the 2024 earmarks with BIA
and HIS, but the overall net effect on Tribal programs is still a $25
million increase.
In addition to the program increases, the CR also provides $999
million in increases for Tribal contracts, court costs, and an
additional $256 million for section 105(1) leases in an effort to
continue our commitment to upholding our trust and treaty
responsibilities.

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It also increases, on a permanent basis, the wildfire fighting pay.
That costs $147 million. It actually saves us $27 million rather than
just extending the 1-year extension of the wildfire pay. I think when
we have seen those great jobs that wildfire firefighters do for us, it
is incredible what they do. We don't pay them enough now. If you can
make more flipping burgers in California than you can fighting
wildfires, something is wrong. This permanently fixes that for us.
It is a very important bill. Shutting down government is never good
policy. It is never good politics. Why anyone, Republican or Democrat,
would vote against this, I have no idea.
This is a good bill. I hope we all vote for it.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), the distinguished ranking member of the Energy and
Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee.
Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member DeLauro for allowing
me this time.
This bill was drafted by Musk's greed machine and seeks to put his
claws even deeper into the pockets of our people. Why? To extract the
largest transfer of wealth from money they are taking from these bills
from middle-class and working-class people and put it in the pockets of
the top 1 percent, who already own half of this country, a handful of
people who are so very wealthy.
The top 1 percent of billionaires now own as much wealth as the
bottom half of our population. That is what is going wrong, and I rise
in strong opposition to this bill.
Elon Musk and his DOGE boys don't need Medicaid, Social Security, and
veterans benefits. Our Constitution assigns our legislative branch the
responsibility to direct Federal spending, not unelected billionaires
and the 1 percent.
In our subcommittee area of energy and water development, this Musk
bill would stifle American prosperity by cutting nearly half of the
Army Corp's budget. Musk and Trump don't know anything about public
works and how essential the Army Corps is to our daily life in every
district in this country and to economic growth.
The greed machine wants to steal assets from America's people and put
them in the pockets of billionaires at places like moolah-lago. Did I
say that right? Mar-a-Lago.
Finally, the greed machine is cutting a total of nearly $600 million
in support for local law enforcement. That is nearly $600 million in
cuts for local police, leaving the kitty dry. The greed machine is
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In opposing the bill, I stand with our people, not with the
billionaires and their greed machine. Think about it. Why rob Main
Street to dole out even bigger tax breaks and more contracts for the
moolah-lago crowd and billionaires whose crew haven't got a clue what
working life is like for American men and women?
It is over time for them to pay their fair share. Vote ``no'' on this
horrendous bill.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Rutherford), my very good friend and a
member of the Appropriations Committee.
Mr. RUTHERFORD. Mr. Speaker, I really appreciate all the hard work
that got us here today.
Mr. Speaker, I have to tell you, as I sat here on this floor
listening to the conversation, it reminded me of an old saying that my
father had. For many, many years, I heard this: A lie can travel around
the world three times before the truth can get up and put its pants on.
That was before the internet. Now, after what I have heard today, I
would say it is probably more like 100 times that a lie can travel
around the world before the truth can get up and put its pants on.
I happen to know that House Republicans have been working diligently
to fully fund the core Federal Government services so that President
Trump and his administration can continue to identify the waste, fraud,
and abuse of American tax dollars, protect our border, and support
Americans, including our veterans--contrary to what you heard--our
military families, first responders, of which I am a former, and our
seniors.
Most importantly, by passing H.R. 1968, this continuing resolution,
we are ensuring that a costly government shutdown does not fall upon
the American public.
It is our constitutional obligation in Congress to fund the Federal
Government, and House Republicans are acting on that duty.
Unfortunately, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are not.
House Democratic leadership came out in opposition to this bill and
spread egregious falsehoods about what this bill does and does not do
before it was even printed. You have heard that before.
Let's be clear, this bill will not hurt law enforcement by slashing
COPS grants, nor will it zero out the toxic exposure fund for veterans.
Instead, it is a clean bill that will extend funding and certainty for
the American people.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ezell). The time of the gentleman has
expired.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the
gentleman from Florida.
Mr. RUTHERFORD. Mr. Speaker, this bill would maintain government
operations while responsibly protecting Social Security, Medicaid, and
Medicare recipients from unnecessary disruption and the confusion that
comes along with a government shutdown, promote public safety, renew
our commitment to supporting law enforcement officers, raise pay for
our junior enlisted troops by the largest amount in 40 years, fund
important nutritional assistance for mothers, infants, and children,
and the list goes on.
House Democrats seem dead set on shutting down the government over
their disdain for the Commander in Chief, no matter the cost to their
own communities.
Mr. Speaker, I am committed to passing this bill, and I urge my
colleagues to do the same.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Minnesota (Ms. McCollum), the distinguished ranking member of the
Defense Subcommittee.
Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this full-
year continuing resolution.
Let's call the CR what it is. It is a Republican majority abdicating
our constitutional responsibilities. Republicans have turned over
congressional power to direct funding to Elon Musk and President Trump.
The Republican appropriations process for fiscal year 2025 has been a
disaster. Republicans have had 18 months to write, pass, and negotiate
these spending bills. They failed. The Republican leadership never
wanted to negotiate with Democrats, which their slim majority in the
House would have required.
Here we are stuck with a full-year CR, something that has never
happened in the history of this Nation. It is a complete failure to
govern.
To make things worse, the CR cuts $13 billion from domestic
priorities that Americans rely on. I will mention a few, like
lifesaving medical research at the NIH. Rent assistance for low-income
working families is cut.
Republicans failed to include $22 billion in advanced appropriation
funding for the VA toxic exposure fund. This jeopardizes the health of
our veterans exposed to burn pits and, yes, Agent Orange.
Community projects submitted by our constituents for police and first
responders have also been eliminated by this bill.
For the Defense Department, the bill reduces DOD medical research by
about 50 percent. It will obstruct the search for new cures for cancer
and infectious diseases.
Republicans also underfunded military training exercises, which will
mean the readiness of our troops will be put at risk. They cut DOD
technology research and development funding, which helps us keep our
edge over our adversaries.
Simply put, this CR is a disaster, and it did not have to be this
way. The American people deserve better, and I urge my colleagues to
vote ``no'' on this Republican failure.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Oklahoma (Mrs. Bice), my very good friend and a distinguished member of
the Appropriations Committee.
Mrs. BICE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support
H.R. 1968, a clean continuing resolution that funds government through
September 30, 2025.
I think my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are confused
about what is in this bill and what is not. They keep talking about
impacts to mandatory spending, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
That is not in this bill. Just because you keep repeating the same
dishonest talking points doesn't make it true.
This legislation continues funding and prevents a government
shutdown, which would have a devastating impact on my home State of
Oklahoma and communities across the country. We must keep government
open so we can continue the America First agenda, which is focused on
securing our border, unleashing American energy, safeguarding our
Nation, and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. This legislation fully
supports our vets and servicemembers. It does not cut 1 cent from toxic
exposure funds or eliminate COPS grants.
Continuing resolutions are not ideal, but we cannot allow for the
distractions of a government shutdown, which is why I support this
bill. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), the distinguished ranking member of
the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Subcommittee.
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose this cruel
betrayal of America's veterans, seniors, and working families.
This 1-year CR doesn't make rent or healthcare bills more affordable,
which is what keeps my constituents up at night. Instead, it actually
cuts housing aid that could force 32,000 veterans, domestic violence
survivors, seniors, and people with disabilities into homelessness.
What does this spending patch do as we all now stare down the barrel
of another Trump recession? It hands an unelected billionaire free rein
to keep stealing taxpayer dollars and paves the way for billionaires
and big corporations to luxuriate in more tax breaks.
This isn't a clean CR. This CR stands for cut and run. It lets Trump
close hundreds of Social Security offices and fire thousands of workers
who deliver our seniors' checks. It allows Musk to keep hacking into
your private tax data. It puts critical Everglades restoration funds at
risk. Worst of all, it lets Trump and Musk keep up their brutal assault
on veterans and the people who care for them. It does it by eliminating
$23 billion in guaranteed funding for healthcare for veterans exposed
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We should debate bipartisan, full-year funding bills that grow the
economy and provide vital resources Americans need. Instead, this
Republican cut-and-run bill turns Congress into a missing kid on a milk
carton and cedes massive power to Trump.
This is the same President who, in 2 short months, tanked your 401(k)
and unleashed a job-killing trade war. Yesterday, the stock market just
recorded its worst day since 2020.
What really enrages me is that this cut-and-run bill sides with the
most anti-veteran President in American history. Trump has fired 6,000
veterans, inflicted mass VA layoffs, and killed hundreds of veterans
services contracts. Trump even plans to lay off another 83,000 VA
workers. On top of that, this cut-and-run bill makes even deeper cuts
to the healthcare services for all those who bravely served our Nation.
Democrats are more than willing to back bipartisan funding
legislation, but we will never sell out our seniors, veterans, and
children like this cut-and-run bill shamelessly does. Vote ``no.''
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas
(Mr. Roy), my good friend and a distinguished member of the Rules
Committee.

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Oklahoma for yielding.
My, my, how times have changed.
How many times have we been sitting on the floor of the House
listening to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle saying that
a CR is the greatest thing since sliced bread; we must have the CR?
That is because when some of us were saying: Wait a minute, Mr.
President, wait a minute, President Biden, maybe we should actually
secure the border of the United States instead of letting millions of
people flood in and kill Americans and let fentanyl flood into our
communities.
So when we wanted to secure the border and we dared to say the
funding should actually reflect that and we threatened to actually have
a fight on spending, then my colleagues on the other side of the aisle
said: CR, we have got to have a CR, our precious CR.
Mr. Speaker, here we are.
What are we doing?
Our colleagues oppose the CR.
Why?
It is because we would have spending frozen for 6 months down about
$7 billion, but, importantly, allow DOGE and allow our friends in the
administration to continue to expose the absurdity of Federal spending.
How about $1.5 billion to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at
Serbia's workplaces; $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in
Ireland; $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam; $47,000 for a
transgender opera in Colombia; and $32,000 for a transgender comic book
in Peru?
This is what our Democratic colleagues are fighting for, to continue
to fund absurd programs rather than do the commonsense work of what we
are trying to do to have more beds for ICE, secure the border of the
United States, ensure that our defense is funded, and ensure that we
are able to hold spending in check so we can actually have a chance of
saving this great country.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman confirms what we have been
saying all along: impoundment.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from
Maine (Ms. Pingree).
Ms. PINGREE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding me
this time.
Mr. Speaker, I oppose this full-year continuing resolution and urge
my colleagues to reject it. If we vote ``no'' and reject this CR, then
we can go back to work and negotiate a regular, full-year spending
bill.
This full-year continuing resolution is not a responsible way to
govern. The bill does not set funding levels for individual programs,
and because it doesn't, it creates another dangerous opportunity for
President Trump and Elon Musk to defund congressional priorities, and
we all know what a disaster that has been for our country: an illegal,
unconstitutional disaster.
It is the duty of Congress to negotiate regular spending bills. This
means that we actively decide on every individual program's funding
level and that we make adjustments where necessary.
For example, the Indian Health Service needs an additional $345
million just to maintain current direct healthcare services. This
continuing resolution fails to provide those funds, so Tribal
communities will experience a lower level of healthcare service.
A regular bill also gives very specific directions to agencies to
carry out specific work. For example, in prior years in the Interior
bill, we have directed the EPA to conduct PFAS research that will help
farmers, ranchers, and rural communities manage the disastrous impact
PFAS has had like in my home State of Maine. Under the continuing
resolution, without our direction, the administration may decide that
work should stop.
As ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment,
and Related Agencies of the Appropriations Committee, I am deeply
concerned that the Republican majority is giving the administration a
free pass to abandon programs that protect the public from pollution,
that safeguard human health, and that address the climate crisis.
Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished
gentleman from New York (Mr. Lawler).
Mr. LAWLER. Mr. Speaker, as the great George Costanza said: ``It's
not a lie if you believe it.''
That is what we have heard today from my Democratic colleagues, a
bunch of lies that maybe they sincerely believe.
The reality is this bill does not touch Social Security, it does not
touch Medicare, and it does not touch Medicaid. Those programs are
fully funded and protected. Our veterans are fully funded and
protected. Fiscal year '24 was a total of $1.665 trillion. Fiscal year
'25, of which we are voting to complete with this CR, is $1.658
trillion. The reduction of $7 billion is because community project
funding that has already been paid and that has already been approved
as part of fiscal year '24 is not going to be double paid.
So we are saving $7 billion by removing it, as it should be.
Why would we pay for projects that have already been paid for?
The fact is that we have to keep the government funded and open. Why
anyone would vote to shut the government down is beyond me.
When Joe Biden was President of the United States, I voted every time
to keep the government funded and open.
The idea that we are going to shut it down because the priorities
changed--guess what, Mr. Speaker. The administration changed.
That is the reality of elections. Donald Trump won in November,
Republicans won the House and the Senate, and so, yes, budgets will
change. The fact is that we have to keep the government open.
I would remind my colleagues that the reason we are in this situation
is because Senate Democrats under Chuck Schumer passed exactly zero
appropriations bills on the Senate floor, zero. There was nothing to
negotiate. They couldn't pass a bill. They refused to pass a bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Murphy). The time of the gentleman has
expired.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the
gentleman from New York.
Mr. LAWLER. They refused to pass a bill. We passed appropriations
bills on the floor last year. We were ready to conference. We were
ready to negotiate. Chuck Schumer failed in his responsibilities.
It is now incumbent on us to pass a CR through the House and for the
Senate to do its job and keep the government open and funded.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, we can pass a 1-month CR and do that and do
what we need to do to keep the government open. There is an
alternative.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms.
Meng), who is the distinguished ranking member of the Commerce,
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee.
Ms. MENG. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this partisan
bill.
As ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, I cannot stand by as
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the courts, and NOAA, which includes the National Weather Service.
This bill hurts our local police officers by taking away $247 million
from their public safety technology and equipment. Additionally, it
cuts $350 million from projects that support community efforts to
prevent crime, improve law enforcement, to provide precincts with
equipment to prevent car theft and provide victim services. These are
projects that Republicans and Democrats on our committee approved and
agreed on.
Furthermore, the bill does nothing to prevent this administration
from gutting NOAA. As a result, the lifesaving weather forecasts we all
receive will be less accurate and timely.
Federal funding cuts in the GOP's continuing resolution are dangerous
to communities like Queens and so many others. This includes Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP benefits which serve as a
lifeline for millions of Americans.
Let's be clear: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are not
entitlements. They are earned benefits that hardworking Americans pay
into throughout their lifetime so they have the opportunity to retire
with dignity.
Mr. Speaker, this bill allows the administration to fire thousands of
employees at the Social Security Administration and close offices
nationwide, which will mean long wait times and delayed benefits for
families.
For these reasons, at the appropriate time I will offer a motion to
recommit this bill back to the House Appropriations Committee. If the
House rules permitted, I would have offered the motion with an
important amendment to this bill. My amendment would prevent any law or
executive action from eliminating, restricting, or reducing access to
these programs lawfully owed to beneficiaries across the Nation.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include in the Record the
text of this amendment.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from New York?
There was no objection.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished
gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert), who is the chairman of the
Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.
Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, the chairman of the
full committee, Mr. Cole, who has done an excellent job of putting this
continuing resolution together under difficult circumstances.
The appropriators tried to come to an accommodation, but we weren't
able to get there. So the best alternative we have today is this
continuing resolution which does good things for our country. It
obviously keeps the government shutdown from happening to the American
people and fully funds our core government services.
Something that I am interested in, and I think most Members are
interested in, is our national security. This continues to fund our
national security. It makes sure that the young men and women who serve
our military, especially our enlisted soldiers, are going to get a
historic pay raise, the highest pay raise they have had in 40 years. A
lot of these E-1s who come in and make $11 an hour, their pay is going
to be put up significantly. This is something that I think needs to
happen, so I would hope my friends on the other side of the aisle would
not vote to diminish these individuals' pay that they need very much.
This also supports important weapons systems: the Virginia-class
submarine, the Columbia-class submarine, shipbuilding across the United
States, our satellite construction, and rebuilding the ordnance for the
United States that we need desperately.
A vote against the CR would stop all of this. So to me, Mr. Speaker,
this is an extremely important vote for our national security. I would
hope that everyone would vote for that, vote for continuing our
government and to make sure that these weapons systems are delivered on
time for the American public.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, let's have the 1-month CR that has been
introduced as an alternative and do the business of the House and pass
appropriations bills.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms.
Lois Frankel), who is the distinguished ranking member of the National
Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee.
Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I will tell you why I am
voting against the bill. It doesn't lower any of my constituents'
costs. Instead, it gives the Trump administration free rein to continue
its chaotic and lawless dismantling of the United States' influence in
the world, gutting nearly all of our humanitarian, development,
security, and global health programs, programs that constitute less
than 1 percent of our Federal budget.
These are not serious cost-saving measures. Instead, they make us
less safe, less prosperous, and less healthy. Counterterrorism programs
are halted, contracts with American farmers are cancelled, children are
left wasting away, bird flu, Ebola, and HIV spreading, education
programs ending, all done without any thought or any reason.

The vacuum is left for China, Russia, and extremists to fill. We
should not be handing this President a blank check to continue his
harmful, sledgehammer approach to how we spend taxpayer money.
Mr. Speaker, I urge a resounding ``no'' vote on this bill.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
Illinois (Mr. Quigley), who is a member of the Appropriations
Committee.
Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, there is a national shortage of more than 7
million units of affordable housing across America and more than
771,000 people experiencing homelessness. This CR does nothing to lower
the cost of housing.
That is what I was going to talk about for my 2 minutes, but after
listening to this debate for so long, I think significant correction
has to be made.
Programs are not fully funded and protected if you gut the agencies
that operate them. Programs are not fully funded and protected if there
is no one there to operate them.
Under President Trump, spending bills have become a farce. He is not
following the previous spending bill law that we passed.
Are we saying: Well, this time we really mean it; this time the
President really promises he is going to follow the law?
Have we gotten to the point where Article I is optional?
Our constituents are asking us: However great you say this bill is,
fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, they are going to blame us
because we believed you this time. We believed the President who, when
he gets in the room with the truth, a fight breaks out, as we have seen
time and again in the last month.
So with all due respect, don't tell us what is in this bill, how
great it is, and how we need to read it when he doesn't have to follow
it and you don't complain when he doesn't follow it and you abdicate
your responsibilities in Article I and as appropriators.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from
engaging in personalities toward the President.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New
Jersey (Mr. Pallone), who is the distinguished ranking member of the
Energy and Commerce Committee.

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Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, one of my colleagues on the Republican side
asked earlier what Democrats are fighting for.
Mr. Speaker, I am a proud Democrat fighting for America's healthcare,
and I stress that this partisan Republican bill cuts American
healthcare. This bill slashes funding for our community health centers,
which provide care for millions of people, as well as our Nation's
teaching hospitals, which train the next generation of doctors.
It fails to reverse the Medicare physician pay cut, which endangers
access for seniors, especially for those in rural and underserved
communities. It also does nothing to stop Republicans' planned
catastrophic cuts to Medicaid.
Rather than voting on this partisan bill, we should be working
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healthcare like the bipartisan agreement we had in December. That bill
provided long-term certainty and funding increases for our community
health centers and our teaching health centers. It lowered drug costs
by taking on unfair PBM practices and addressed the Medicare cuts to
physicians.
Unfortunately, Republicans walked away from this agreement because
Elon Musk opposed it.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from
New York (Ms. Velazquez), the distinguished ranking member of the Small
Business Committee.
Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this reckless
Republican funding bill. Republicans claim that this is a clean CR, but
the facts tell a different story.
This bill slashes $23 billion from veterans' benefits, turning its
back on the brave men and women who served our country; guts
healthcare, leaving families, children, and seniors vulnerable; and it
slashes affordable housing, putting thousands, including veterans,
domestic violence survivors, and people with disabilities at risk of
losing their homes.
If these cuts weren't bad enough, the Vice President said this
morning that this administration will continue to refuse to spend money
on programs that they don't like.
I will not vote for a CR that green lights these dangerous cuts.
Democrats are ready to fund the government, but we will not stand by
while Republicans sell out the people we are sworn to serve.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to reject this dangerous bill.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Takano), the distinguished ranking member of the
Veterans' Affairs Committee.
Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this partisan
Republican spending bill because it guts the Honoring our PACT Act and
abandons veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins. House
Republicans claim to support the Honoring our PACT Act, but their
actions tell a different story.
They are eliminating the funding for Honoring our PACT Act recipients
starting in October, cutting off critical healthcare and benefits for
those who sacrificed for this country. Last Congress, Democrats forced
Republicans to fully fund this critical program.
Mr. Speaker, Republicans are taking Elon's chain saw to it, slashing
$23 billion and breaking our Nation's sacred promise to our veterans.
Where you invest your money shows what you truly value. By gutting this
funding, Republicans have made their priorities clear.
Mr. Speaker, I stand with our veterans. I stand firm in our
priorities and promises, and I will not stand by while Republicans rip
them apart.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this partisan
Republican spending bill.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from
the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).
Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, this CR is an act of fiscal sabotage against
the District of Columbia and an abuse of Congress' power over
disenfranchised D.C.
This CR will result in an immediate cut of more than $1 billion from
D.C.'s $21 billion budget 6 months into D.C.'s fiscal year.
For the last 20 years, D.C. has been able to operate under the local
budget enacted by D.C. for the next fiscal year for the duration of
every CR. This CR does not allow D.C. to do so.
Instead, the CR effectively repeals the fiscal year 2025 local budget
enacted by D.C., which D.C. has been operating under for 6 months, and
restores the fiscal year 2024 local budget enacted by D.C., which D.C.
stopped operating under 6 months ago.
This cut to D.C.'s local budget does not save the Federal Government
any money because D.C.'s local budget consists entirely of locally
raised revenue.
Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to vote ``no.''
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman from Connecticut
has expired.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, in that case, may I inquire as to how much
time is remaining.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 6 minutes
remaining.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, it has been an interesting debate. There have been a lot
of things said that are exaggerations and a lot of things said, in my
view, that are fabrications. I will talk about a few of those.
There is nothing in this bill about Social Security. There is nothing
in this bill about Medicare. There is nothing in this bill about
Medicaid.
There aren't cuts in nutrition for the poor. There is a $500 million
increase in WIC, at the request of the President. There are no cuts in
housing. There is an increase in housing to try to adjust for
inflation.
We probably would have been better off if we had negotiated a deal,
but that didn't happen. We did the proactive thing. There is more money
in here to take care of junior enlisted personnel. I don't think that
is probably an article of much dispute. It certainly shouldn't be.
Mr. Speaker, I can go charge by charge.
On the Toxic Exposures Fund, we are going to deal with that in the
fiscal year 2026 bill. It is for 2026. Everything is funded for 2025.
That is what this bill covered. It is an appropriations bill for fiscal
year 2025. That is what we are covering here.
We are going to deal with the fiscal year 2026 bill, and then we will
deal with that issue. I voted for the Honoring our PACT Act. I believe
in it. I voted for additional funding for it. I suspect we will find
common ground there.
There are a lot of fireworks around this bill. Let's just talk about
what it does.
Mr. Speaker, it is pretty simple. It is a CR. It is a continuing
resolution. The Democratic leadership came out against it before they
ever saw it. Maybe that is why we have all these fabrications and
hallucinations about what is in it. It is pretty short. It is 99 pages.
Read it.
Now, I am sorry that everybody didn't get their projects. I really am
sorry about that. We don't do that in CRs.
The big cuts here mostly are an elimination of congressional
projects. I think most of those are worthy projects. I support them. I
actually support the reforms my good friend, the ranking member, put in
there. I think she did a great job for that for this institution, but
we can't do them in a CR. We just don't do them. People are upset about
that. I am sorry about that.
At the end of the day, there is only one important thing that matters
here. Members can vote ``yes'' and keep the government open. Whatever
my Democratic colleagues' problem is and whatever the minority's
concern is, it is going to be worse in a government shutdown, not
better. It will be worse. Whatever my colleagues on the other side of
the aisle are worried about, shutting down the government is not the
answer to their concern. My colleagues are only going to make it worse.
Keeping the government open is the right thing to do. I wish we could
have gotten a deal, but we are not going to sit here and concede the
executive authority of a Republican President because it upsets the
minority. It is not going to happen.
We made that crystal clear, and I think that was the biggest thing.
It wasn't a top-line number. We basically got to a top-line number. We
are here, and the government shutdown is 4 days away.
If Democratic Members want to vote ``no'' and succeed in shutting
down the government in 4 days, that is their choice. I respect every
Member's vote.
I have never voted for a government shutdown. I have always voted to
reopen the government. I don't like government shutdowns. I don't think
they work. I think the minority will find that if they succeed in
shutting down the government it won't work very well for them either.
It never works. I think my colleagues on the other side of the aisle
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have to defend a vote to shut down the government, personally.
Actually, this body will not have the final say. It is going to go to
the United States Senate, and the minority has the power in the Senate
to shut down the government if they choose because they have a
filibuster over there. They have 60 votes. If Democratic Members are
worried about it, just let it go over there. They have the power in
that body to do it.
If my colleagues want to shut down the government, it is their
choice.
Mr. Speaker, I think the choice is crystal clear. If we took a poll
on it and the American people were asked: Do you want to shut down the
government? The overwhelming answer would be: No.
Do you think we should keep the government open and keep working on
our problems? That would be an overwhelming yes.
I choose to do what the American people want to do: keep the
government open. That is what my constituents want. Maybe Democratic
Members' constituents want to shut it down. Mine don't, and I suspect
theirs don't, either.
Mr. Speaker, I suggest we set aside the rhetoric and the intense
feelings and just do the right thing, and the right thing is to vote
``yes'' and keep the government open.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill. I urge them
not to vote to shut down the government, and I yield back the balance
of my time.
Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, and still I rise, to oppose a
Continuing Resolution that will allow a chainsaw to, among other
things: minimize Medicaid with underfunded block grants to states,
marginalize Medicare's ``Dual Eligibles'' long-term Medicaid care, and
privatize Social Security by allowing private investment of Social
Security funds in the stock market with no protections from market
downturns. Mr. Speaker, the costs of the cuts in spending will be
measurable. However, the human cost in pain and suffering will be
immeasurable.
I will not participate in what can become the chainsawing of proven
safety net programs. I will vote against exposing lifesaving programs
to an uncertain, shameful future.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, for all of American history, it has been
understood that Congress, not the president, has the ultimate power to
determine how government funds are spent. Few principles are as
fundamental to the structure of government enshrined in the
Constitution.
From time to time, this authority has been challenged by the
Executive Branch, and each time Congress has responded by rejecting the
executive's encroachment on the fisc to further underscore the
legislative branch's primacy over spending matters. Those conflicts
have led to bedrock laws that further bolster the Congress's fiscal
authority. The collection of statutes known as the Antideficiency Act
(currently codified in title 31 of the United States Code) placed
controls and safeguards on top of Congress's constitutional power,
reiterating the Executive Branch's inability to spend without
Congressionally approved legislation.
Similarly, on the other end of the fiscal law spectrum, Congress
enacted the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to establish an orderly
process by which the executive could request legislative action by
Congress to limit already-enacted spending--simply put, affirming the
existent requirement that the executive branch carry out provisions of
law that require spending (that is, appropriations).
Both the Antideficiency Act and the Impoundment Control Act of 1974
provide safeguards for a legal reality that existed before either law
was enacted, and which carries on to this day: When a law is enacted
providing an appropriation for a purpose in an amount, the executive
branch is required to take care that the appropriation is fully and
prudently obligated and expended to carry out its intended purpose
unless Congress provides discretion in statute to do otherwise.
Congress may provide such discretion, for example, by setting a
minimum amount for an appropriation that serves as a floor or by
setting a maximum level that serves as a ceiling. Certain
appropriations in H.R. 1968 provide this flexibility. But in the
absence of such discretion being expressly provided in legislation,
when Congress provides an appropriation for a specific amount, that
level is both a floor and a ceiling. These appropriations and levels
stipulate an exact amount for a specified purpose and are therefore a
directive to the executive branch to prudently obligate and expend that
specific amount for the purposes specified within the timeframe
allowed. Such is the case for the vast majority of the appropriations
in H.R. 1968.
Though H.R. 1968 is a full-year continuing appropriations Act in a
format unlike a traditional appropriations Act, the legal principles
underlying every appropriation in the bill are the same: an
appropriation, whether explicitly spelled out in the legislation or
incorporated by reference from a prior-year appropriation Act (such as
those included in section 1101 of H.R. 1968) is a direction from
Congress to prudently obligate and expend that specific amount, for the
applicable purposes and within the timeframe defined unless discretion
is provided in statute to do otherwise. H.R. 1968, the Full-Year
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 (FYCAA), effectuates these
appropriations chiefly through section 1101. That provision
appropriates anew for fiscal year 2025 each appropriation in the
referenced bills from fiscal year 2024, under the same authorities and
conditions as were included in those same bills, except as specified
otherwise in the FYCAA. That is, each new appropriation from section
1101 is for the same amount, and purpose, as in last year's bill except
as directed otherwise in provisions in the FYCAA.
Congress is explicit about any such deviations. For example, section
1103 states that the appropriations provided by section 1101 retain a
``comparable period of availability.'' That means an appropriation
provided in a referenced bill that was available for obligation for two
fiscal years (for fiscal year 2024 and remaining available through the
end of fiscal year 2025), that is appropriated anew by section 1101
would be available for obligation for two fiscal years as well (for
fiscal years 2025 and 2026). The FYCAA also includes some specific and
explicit negations of authorities and conditions in last year's bills,
such as section 1503(a), which loosens the requirements under which the
Army Corps of Engineers is required to spend the appropriations
provided in this bill to that agency. These are only a couple examples
of the deviations (called ``anomalies'') specified in the bill.
The FYCAA is also distinguishable from the short-term continuing
appropriations Act contained in division A of Public Law 118-83. which
is currently applicable through March 14, 2025. The FYCAA for example,
contains no provision comparable to section 109 of division A of Public
Law 118-83: whereas Congress contemplated limited funding actions from
the continuing appropriations provided in section 101 of such division,
that instruction does not extend to the appropriations provided in the
FYCAA, nor other appropriations that were previously enacted, either in
this fiscal year or in prior fiscal years.
The appropriations contained in the FYCAA directly renew the
appropriations with the applicable authorities and conditions from
Public Laws 118-42 and 118-47--except where explicitly directed in this
law otherwise--and are a reaffirmation of Congress's intent to provide
for those activities in full. That intent was made clear by the
original enactment of the appropriations in those laws and the
accompanying Joint Explanatory Statements in March of 2024, and by the
affirmation and continuation of additional funding for those same
purposes under the same authorities and conditions (except where
otherwise revised in statute) in September and December of 2025 through
the enactment and amendment of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025.
Fully acknowledging the change in Administration on January 20, 2025,
the Congress has observed dramatic changes in how duly enacted
appropriations have been executed over the last 50 days. I note that
the current Administration's actions to defy Congress's specific
appropriations have been rejected by the Judicial Branch to date. The
FYCAA also represents a rejection by the legislative branch of the
current Administration's unlawful refusal to take care that enacted
appropriations be faithfully executed.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
Pursuant to House Resolution 211, the previous question is ordered on
the bill, as amended.
The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was
read the third time.

Motion to Recommit

Ms. MENG. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:

Ms. Meng of New York moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1968
to the Committee on Appropriations.

The material previously referred to by Ms. Meng is as follows:
Ms. Meng Moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1968 to the
Committee on Appropriations with the following amendment:
In the matter preceding division A insert the following
after section 3:

SEC. 4. PROTECTING MEDICAID, MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, AND
SNAP.

It is the sense of Congress that no measure should be
enacted, nor executive action

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taken, that eliminates, restricts, or reduces access to, the
level of, or Federal financial support for benefits or
services owed to lawfully eligible individuals under
Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security programs, or the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Ms. MENG. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further
proceedings on this question are postponed.

Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Proceedings will resume on questions
previously postponed.
Votes will be taken in the following order:
Passage of H.R. 1156;
Motion to recommit on H.R. 1968;
Passage of H.R. 1968, if ordered; and
Passage of H.J. Res. 25.
The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote.
Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, remaining electronic votes will be
conducted as 5-minute votes.

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