November 3, 2026, 5:03 AM ET — No material FY2027 appropriations developments since the last check (November 2, 10:03 PM ET).
Today is Election Day (the November 3 midterms). Both the House and Senate remain in recess and are not expected back in Washington until November 9, when Congress returns for a compressed lame-duck session. A fresh round of searches across wire services and established outlets (AP, Reuters, PBS NewsHour, The Hill, Politico, Roll Call, Axios), plus the authoritative trackers, turned up nothing new: the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Appropriations Watch: FY2027 tracker still shows its September 3 refresh, the most recent House Appropriations Committee item remains an October 26 post, and Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins’ most recent release remains her September 25 statement on OMB’s pocket-rescissions package.
Snapshot
- Bills enacted: 0 of 12
- House-passed: 3 of 12 (Agriculture, Military Construction–VA, State–Foreign Operations)
- Senate-passed: 0 of 12 — no Senate markups expected before the post-midterm lame-duck session
- Shutdown risk: Low — government funded via a continuing resolution (H.R. 6500 / P.L. 119-103) through December 11, 2026 (38 days away)
The underlying dynamic hasn’t changed: the Senate Appropriations Committee has not yet held a subcommittee or full-committee markup on any of the 12 FY2027 bills, stalled over the defense vs. non-defense topline spending split. Several analysts (Roll Call, the Washington Sun) expect the lame-duck session to produce either a negotiated topline deal or a second stopgap running into mid-March 2027 for whichever bills aren’t finished by December 11.
Full bill-by-bill status: live tracker · tracker page on this site.
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