Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
This measure funds the entire federal government through September 30, 2025, ensuring uninterrupted operations for national defense, border security, food assistance programs like WIC, and federal parks. It preserves essential healthcare access by financing community clinics, preventing planned payment cuts to safety-net and rural hospitals, and extending Medicare rules that allow patients to receive telehealth and hospital care at home. The law also delivers emergency funding for disaster recovery and veterans' disability benefits while keeping emergency criminal restrictions on fentanyl-related substances in place.
What this bill touches.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Agricultural producers with disaster lossesAllowed to keep up to 90 percent of their disaster payments even if a minor portion of their revenue losses was attributable to uninsured crops (Sec. 1207).
- Rural and low-volume hospitalsReceive continued higher Medicare inpatient reimbursement adjustments and continued protection under the Medicare-Dependent Hospital program through fiscal year 2025 (Sec. 2201, Sec. 2202).
- Safety-net hospitalsScheduled statutory funding cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments are delayed from fiscal year 2025 until fiscal year 2026 (Sec. 2401).
- Medicare beneficiariesRetain the ability to receive virtual healthcare services from home, access audio-only appointments, and participate in the acute hospital care at home program through September 30, 2025 (Sec. 2207, Sec. 2208).
- VeteransReceive immediate supplemental funding of $41.1 billion in fiscal year 2025 for disability compensation, readjustment benefits, and toxic exposure care, as well as advance appropriations for medical and community care in fiscal year 2026 (Sec. 11109, Sec. 11110).
- Community health centers and National Health Service Corps cliniciansReceive extended federal funding through September 30, 2025, including $2.14 billion for community health centers, $173 million for the NHSC, and $87.7 million for graduate medical education at teaching health centers (Sec. 2101).
- Disaster-affected homeowners, renters, and business ownersEligible for subsidized low-interest disaster recovery loans backed by $374 million appropriated to the Small Business Administration disaster loan account (Sec. 1604).
Who it burdens
- Transplant centersAuthorizes HHS to collect registration fees from OPTN members for each patient placed on the national organ transplant waiting list to fund OPTN operations (Sec. 1904).
- Convicted human traffickersSubject to an extended mandatory $5,000 court special assessment upon conviction to fund human trafficking law enforcement and victim assistance (Sec. 3103).
- Livestock and dairy packersRequired to continue complying with mandatory livestock and dairy market price and sales reporting requirements through fiscal year 2025 (Sec. 1203).
- Federal departments and agenciesMust draft and submit detailed spending and operating plans for fiscal year 2025 to congressional appropriations committees within 45 days of enactment (Sec. 1113).
Who opposes it
- Recipients of congressional earmarks and community project fundingSpecifically strips legal effect from all congressional earmarks and community project funding directives for funds appropriated under the continuing resolution (Sec. 1111).
The provisions, in plain language.
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Extends federal agency funding and government operations through September 30, 2025, generally maintaining fiscal year 2024 spending rates and program rules while barring new project starts.
Appropriates an emergency $8 billion for military operations, force protection, and deterrence activities led by U.S. Central Command and U.S. European Command.
Appropriates $22.51 billion for FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund to assist state and local recovery from major disasters, along with $9.99 billion for ICE and $10.61 billion for TSA operations.
Extends the authority of the National Flood Insurance Program to issue flood insurance policies and borrow funds through September 30, 2025.
Extends the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance program and related family grants through September 30, 2025.
Appropriates an immediate supplemental $41.1 billion for veterans' benefits in fiscal year 2025, providing $30.24 billion for compensation and pensions, $6.0 billion for toxic exposure healthcare, and $4.86 billion for readjustment benefits.
Extends federal funding through September 30, 2025, for community health centers ($2.14 billion), the National Health Service Corps ($173 million), and residency training programs at teaching health centers ($87.7 million).
Extends temporary Medicare telehealth flexibilities through September 30, 2025, allowing patients to receive virtual care from home, permitting audio-only phone visits, and keeping expanded practitioner eligibility in place.
Delays scheduled statutory cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments to safety-net hospitals until fiscal year 2026.
Extends the federal emergency classification placing all fentanyl-related substances on the Schedule I controlled substances list through September 30, 2025.
Provides advance funding for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 for safety net programs, including $261.1 billion for state Medicaid grants, $22.1 billion for Supplemental Security Income, $3.6 billion for foster care, and $1.6 billion for child support enforcement.
Cancels all congressional earmarks and community project funding directives for funds provided under the continuing resolution.
Requires federal departments and agencies to submit detailed fiscal year 2025 spending and operating plans to congressional appropriations committees within 45 days.
Extends the operating authority and jurisdiction of the United States Parole Commission through fiscal year 2025.
Sets specific funding levels for Department of Agriculture programs, providing $7.6 billion for the WIC nutrition program, $1.21 billion for meat and poultry inspection, and $130 million for rural broadband and telemedicine grants and loans.
Extends mandatory market price and sales reporting requirements for livestock and dairy packers through fiscal year 2025.
Allows agricultural producers who suffered disaster losses to keep up to 90 percent of their disaster payments even if a minor portion of their losses involved crops that were not insured.
Sets funding levels for justice and commerce programs, providing $2.24 billion for federal prisoner detention, $2.0 billion for state and local law enforcement grants, and $417 million for community policing grants.
Provides funding for active duty, reserve, and National Guard military personnel pay and allowances across all service branches for fiscal year 2025.
Appropriates $33.33 billion for Navy shipbuilding and conversion, including $2.39 billion to cover cost overruns on previously ordered submarines, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and transport vessels.
Appropriates $40.4 billion for the Defense Health Program to support medical treatment, healthcare services, and operations for service members, military retirees, and their families.
Permanently cancels approximately $1.2 billion in unspent prior-year defense funding across weapons procurement, research and development, and military assistance accounts.
Appropriates $89 million to subsidize up to $4 billion in government loans and loan guarantees to finance private capital investment in defense industrial manufacturing.
Provides $19.29 billion for nuclear weapons stockpile management and modernization and $2.4 billion for defense nuclear nonproliferation under the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Increases the federal funding cap for the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects to $1.64 billion and directs federal funds toward designated water storage and recycling projects in California and Texas.
Appropriates $90 million for emergency planning and security in Washington, D.C., designating $50 million specifically for security costs related to the January 2025 Presidential Inauguration.
Appropriates $406 million for the Small Business Administration disaster loans account, dedicating $374 million to subsidize disaster recovery loans for homeowners, renters, and businesses.
Rescinds $133 million in unspent balances from the Department of Homeland Security Nonrecurring Expenses Fund and cancels remaining prior-year operating balances across multiple DHS offices.
Sets funding levels for public land and environmental programs, including $2.89 billion for the National Park Service and $4.38 billion for EPA state and tribal environmental assistance grants.
Appropriates $2.75 billion into emergency wildfire suppression reserve accounts for the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to pay for wildland firefighting operations.
Sets operating levels and special budget allowances for state unemployment insurance processing ($3.93 billion), healthcare fraud enforcement ($941 million), and Social Security Administration operations ($14.13 billion).
Authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to collect fees from transplant centers for each patient added to the national organ waiting list to fund the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
Appropriates $603.6 million for Capitol Police operations, earmarking $15 million solely for officer recruitment, retention bonuses, and tuition reimbursement.
Establishes advance appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2026, including $75.04 billion for medical care, $34.0 billion for community care, and $227.2 billion for disability compensation and pensions.
Appropriates $1.234 billion for U.S. contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations and rescinds $111 million in unused foreign debt relief funds.
Extends refugee status eligibility for persecuted religious minorities under the Lautenberg Amendment, continues special visa processing for Afghan allies, and extends U.S. loan guarantees to Israel through 2030.
Appropriates $13.48 billion for Federal Aviation Administration operations, $32.04 billion for tenant-based housing vouchers, and $16.49 billion for project-based Section 8 rental subsidies.
Provides $79.8 million each through September 30, 2025, for Type 1 diabetes clinical research and for diabetes prevention and treatment grants serving Native Americans.
Extends federal public health emergency and biodefense programs through September 30, 2025, including the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and medical countermeasure procurement.
Extends higher Medicare reimbursement adjustments for low-volume rural hospitals and continues the Medicare-Dependent Hospital program through fiscal year 2025.
Extends temporary Medicare bonus payments for ground ambulance trips in rural, urban, and super-rural regions through fiscal year 2025.
Provides funding through fiscal year 2025 for state health insurance assistance programs, area agencies on aging, and disability resource centers to help low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities enroll in Medicare.
Extends through fiscal year 2025 a minimum geographic payment floor for physician labor costs under Medicare, preventing reimbursement reductions in lower-wage areas.
Extends through September 30, 2025, the waiver program allowing participating hospitals to provide acute inpatient care inside a patient's home under Medicare.
Extends Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage for authorized oral antiviral medications through September 30, 2025.
Increases available funding in the Medicare Improvement Fund to $1.804 billion.
Extends federal grant funding for sexual risk avoidance education and personal responsibility education programs through fiscal year 2025.
Extends customer education funding and reward program operations under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's whistleblower program through September 30, 2025.
Extends through September 30, 2025, legal authorities allowing the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice to monitor, seize, and disable unauthorized drones near protected facilities.
Extends through September 30, 2025, mandatory $5,000 court assessments on convicted human traffickers to fund anti-trafficking law enforcement and victim assistance programs.
Extends statutory authorization for the federal government's primary civilian intrusion detection and cybersecurity defense system (EINSTEIN) through September 30, 2025.
Exempts the health and program extension provisions in the bill from statutory and congressional pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budget scorecards.
Extends federal agency funding and government operations through September 30, 2025, generally maintaining fiscal year 2024 spending rates and program rules while barring new project starts.
Appropriates an emergency $8 billion for military operations, force protection, and deterrence activities led by U.S. Central Command and U.S. European Command.
Appropriates $22.51 billion for FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund to assist state and local recovery from major disasters, along with $9.99 billion for ICE and $10.61 billion for TSA operations.
Extends the authority of the National Flood Insurance Program to issue flood insurance policies and borrow funds through September 30, 2025.
Extends the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance program and related family grants through September 30, 2025.
Appropriates an immediate supplemental $41.1 billion for veterans' benefits in fiscal year 2025, providing $30.24 billion for compensation and pensions, $6.0 billion for toxic exposure healthcare, and $4.86 billion for readjustment benefits.
Extends federal funding through September 30, 2025, for community health centers ($2.14 billion), the National Health Service Corps ($173 million), and residency training programs at teaching health centers ($87.7 million).
Extends temporary Medicare telehealth flexibilities through September 30, 2025, allowing patients to receive virtual care from home, permitting audio-only phone visits, and keeping expanded practitioner eligibility in place.
Delays scheduled statutory cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments to safety-net hospitals until fiscal year 2026.
Extends the federal emergency classification placing all fentanyl-related substances on the Schedule I controlled substances list through September 30, 2025.
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How members voted on Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025.
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How it moved.
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- Became Public Law No: 119-4.
- Signed by President.
- Presented to President.
- Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 133.
- Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 133.
- Cloture on the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 62 - 38. Record Vote Number: 128. (CR S1768)
- Cloture motion on the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1768)
- Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S1768-1772)
- Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (CR S1768)
- Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. (CR S1768)
- Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1700)
- Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S1681)
- Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 26.
- Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (Legislative Day March 10, 2025).
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 213 (Roll no. 70). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H1102-1113)
- Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 213 (Roll no. 70). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H1102-1113)
- On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 213 - 216 (Roll no. 69).
- Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1124-1126)
- POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 1968, the Chair put the question on the motion to recommit and announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Meng demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
- The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- Ms. Meng moved to recommit to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR H1123-1124)
- The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 1968.
- Rule provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 25, H.R. 1156 and H.R. 1968. The resolution provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 25, H.R. 1156, and H.R. 1968 under a closed rule. Also, the resolution provides for one hour of general debate and one motion to recommit on each measure.
- Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 211. (consideration: CR H1102-1124)
- Rule H. Res. 211 passed House.
- Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 211 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 25, H.R. 1156 and H.R. 1968. The resolution provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 25, H.R. 1156, and H.R. 1968 under a closed rule. Also, the resolution provides for one hour of general debate and one motion to recommit on each measure.
- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Introduced in House
- Became Public Law No: 119-4.
- Signed by President.
- Presented to President.
- Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 133.
- Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 46. Record Vote Number: 133.
- Cloture on the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 62 - 38. Record Vote Number: 128. (CR S1768)
- Cloture motion on the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1768)
- Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (CR S1768)
- Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. (CR S1768)
- Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1700)
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 213 (Roll no. 70). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H1102-1113)
- Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 213 (Roll no. 70). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H1102-1113)
- On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 213 - 216 (Roll no. 69).
- Rule H. Res. 211 passed House.
- Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 211 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 25, H.R. 1156 and H.R. 1968. The resolution provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 25, H.R. 1156, and H.R. 1968 under a closed rule. Also, the resolution provides for one hour of general debate and one motion to recommit on each measure.
- Introduced in House
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- Public Law 119-4
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Civic Herald. “Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (H.R. 1968, 119th Congress).” https://civicherald.app/bills/119-hr-1968. Congress.gov record as of Aug 3, 2026.