The Senate cleared a roughly $180 billion, three-bill spending package for President Donald Trump’s signature Thursday, marking a halfway point in completing long-delayed fiscal 2026 appropriations.
Before leaving town for a weeklong recess, the Senate voted 82-15 to send legislation combining compromise Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment and Energy-Water bills to the president’s desk. That’s on top of three other bills — Agriculture, Military Construction-VA and Legislative Branch — that became law late last year as part of the package that ended the longest partial government shutdown in history.
But lawmakers were still racing to complete work on the six remaining spending bills, two of which — Financial Services and National Security-State — passed the House this week. Appropriators were hoping to unveil three of the biggest of the dozen annual bills — Defense, Labor-HHS-Education and Transportation-HUD — as early as Sunday night.
