Following weeks of discussion with GOP and Democratic Senators, Senate leaders have hotlined a Unanimous Consent agreement that if agreed to would package together five of the nine remaining FY26 spending bills. The spending measures slated for inclusion in the package are:
– Department of Defense
– Commerce-Justice-Science
– Interior-Environment
– Labor-Health and Human Services
– Transportation-Housing and Urban Development
The agreement would also allow votes on 20 amendments prior to a vote on final passage.
As of this writing there continue to be holds on the consent request, though leaders are working to resolve them. Should this UC be agreed to by all 100 Senators, it is possible these votes could occur as soon as today, though it is also possible that it could be the business the Senate returns to in January.
If the Unanimous Consent request is agreed to this afternoon, it will represent meaningful progress towards a resolution on government spending, needed by January 30, 2026. As a reminder, Congress has already enacted into law three spending bills into law (Agriculture, Military Construction-VA, and Legislative Branch), and passage of an additional give bills would fund almost 90% of the federal government.
Per the hotline request, the following amendments would be voted on this afternoon.
- Hawley #3952: BLS requirement to collect data on the impact of artificial intelligence
- Hawley #3953: West Lake Landfill Superfund Site
- Sheehy # 3988: Wildland Fire Consolidation report
- Schmitt # 3957: $30 million for tuberous sclerosis research
- Lee #3966: Earmark Prohibition
- Lee #3873: Strikes funding for Save Lucy Committee
- Lee #3972: Strikes Sections 130, 441, 448, and 450 in Division C
- Cruz #3998: ROTOR Act (to be refiled)
- Merkley # 4002: Prohibition on Last-Minute Recissions
- Van Hollen-Moran #4043: HUD shall non-competitively renew existing continuum
- Reed #4043: HUD care grants/youth homelessness
- Murray-Baldwin #4072: restricting Dept. of Ed from transferring statutory responsibilities to other federal agencies
- Schumer #4114: Presidential emoluments restrictions
- Sanders #4079: abortion funding requirement
- Murphy #4031: Limitation on use of funds for the transfer of a presidential air transport aircraft that has been under foreign registry to a nongovernmental entity
- Hickenlooper-Bennet #4116: atmospheric research and NSF grants
- Warner #4069: federal labor management programs
- Gallego #3987: Dragon Bravo and White Sage Fires Recovery funding
- Padilla #3994: Limitation on use of funds for deployments for domestic law enforcement without state consent.
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Shaheen #4117: experimental forests