Much of the federal government is funded by 12 annual appropriations bills. Federal fiscal year (FY) 2026 begins on Oct. 1, 2025, and, if appropriations bills have not been enacted before that date or ...

Annually, congressional Appropriations committees determine how money will be spent on different programs and departments within the federal government. The Appropriations committees derive their ...

As we reflect on the just-ended Department of Homeland Security funding impasse, we face a familiar problem. Such shutdowns occur because Congress struggles to assemble 60 votes in the Senate to pass ...

David was a Senior Policy Analyst in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. It is vital that Congress reject the dishonest approach to appropriating that is ...

Leaders in the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives have laid out an aggressive schedule to try and pass all of the FY 2025 appropriations bills, and the new Chairman of Appropriations, ...

In governance, few instruments hold as much power to shape public policy and drive progress as appropriations bills. Each year, Congress wields this legislative tool to allocate public funds and, in ...