Enacted
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.
People affected—Not determinable from the text provided. The act affects virtually the entire U.S. population through federal agency operations, military personnel funding, Medicare and Medicaid services, veterans' benefits, and nutrition assistance, but does not cite an aggregate population figure.
Fiscal magnitude—The bill contains numerous explicit multi-billion dollar appropriations across its titles (including $261.06 billion for first-quarter FY 2026 Medicaid grants in Sec. 1109(b)(2), $227.24 billion for FY 2026 VA compensation and pensions in Sec. 11109(5), and tens of billions for defense, FEMA, and housing). However, the net total fiscal amount is not determinable from the text provided because Division A finances the vast majority of the federal government through an open-ended formula extending FY 2024 rates ('such amounts as may be necessary').
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What this bill touches.
Spending vs. restraint+40Aid & alliances+15Public works+40Veterans' care delivery+25Government role in coverage+25Policing & funding−35Military budget+45Farm policy & subsidies+20Welfare & anti-poverty+20Refugee & asylum policy+20SNAP & nutrition+25Drugs & enforcement−35
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).