Senate appropriators approved their fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch bill Thursday, which would boost spending for Congress by roughly 5 percent and avoid cuts to the Government Accountability Office.
It would keep the GAO steady at $811.9 million for the coming fiscal year, unlike the bill backed by House Republican appropriators last month, which would slash funding for the nonpartisan watchdog nearly in half.
And it would keep funding steady at $852.2 million for the Library of Congress, which in the House version of the bill faces a cut of around 10 percent from the current level, while also boosting the Capitol Police and Senate Sergeant at Arms.
