President Donald Trump Saturday signed into law a six-month stopgap spending measure that averts a partial government shutdown.
Trump signed the measure after the Senate passed it Friday in a mostly party-line vote of 54-46 just hours ahead of the midnight funding lapse. The House
With federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, the administration and Congress will move on to other goals, including a reconciliation tax package and the debt ceiling. Trump, in a social media post on Friday, said, "The big Tax Cuts, L.A. fire fix, Debt Ceiling Bill, and so much more, is coming."
Trump is expected to submit his fiscal 2026 budget sometime in April, according to Roll Call.
The government had been operating under a previous continuing resolution, meaning that all of fiscal 2025 will be funded under continuing appropriations instead of the traditional appropriation package.
"Another continuing resolution, another CR, was nobody's first choice," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, S.D., on the Senate floor Friday. "But I can tell you this, the next time the Senate votes on an appropriation bill, it won't be on the eve of another shutdown."
The $1.6 trillion measure cuts $13 billion from previous year's levels and increases defense spending by about $6 billion. It also eliminates all earmarks, which in the Transportation-Housing and Urban Development budget, totaled $6.05 billion in 2024, including $3.3 billion at HUD and $2.76 billion at DOT, according to Eno Center for Transportation. The transportation-HUD overall budget totals $25.4 billion, Eno said.
The continuing resolution adds $1.2 billion in core highway spending in order to meet levels authorized in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, noted the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.
"The approved spending package, authored by Republicans and supported by President Donald Trump, demonstrates bipartisan support for increased investment levels in transportation improvements, notably by members of the GOP that did not support the 2021 infrastructure law," ARTBA said in a statement after the Senate's approval.
