Republican Full-Year Continuing Resolution

Full-Year Continuing Resolution Allows Elon Musk and President Trump to Accelerate the Stealing of Funds from American Families and Businesses 

REPUBLICAN FULL-YEAR CONTINUING RESOLUTION

• With a full-year continuing resolution, the guardrails are off. Elon Musk and President Trump will have even more leeway to shutoff and repurpose funding as they see fit.
• Among the many problems, the bill forces evictions of more than 32,000 households, jeopardizes Social Security, slashes infrastructure investments, and cuts nutrition assistance.
• This Republican full-year continuing resolution reneges on veterans’ medical care and creates future uncertainty. More veterans are enrolled in VA care than ever. This bill fails to include $22.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 advanced funding for the Toxic Exposures Fund to care for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances.
• Courts rely on Congressional directives to understand the intent of laws – omitting those directives in a full-year continuing resolution would abandon our allies engaged in litigation to protect American families and businesses.
• The bill cuts funding for nondefense programs and services by $13 billion while increasing defense spending by $6 billion compared to fiscal year 2024 enacted levels. It cuts nondefense funding by $15 billion and defense by $3 billion relative to the fiscal year 2025 levels in the Fiscal Responsibility Act agreement.

The Republican full-year continuing resolution hurts the middle class and makes it harder for working families to get by. 

• Fails to Lower the Cost of Housing – This bill fails to lower the cost of housing and instead cuts rent subsidies for low-income and working Americans by more than $700 million, leaving landlords to foot the bill for or evict more than 32,000 households including veterans, survivors of domestic violence, seniors, and families with disabilities, including providing $168 million less than what is needed to maintain homeless services across 400 communities nationally.
• Adds Chaos and Costs for Commuters – This bill enables Musk and Trump to defund projects already underway that improve daily commutes for Americans, giving them full control of the future of public-private capital investment grants for projects that eliminate transportation deserts and improve road congestion, subway systems, light rail, and bus routes across California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
• The Emergency Food Program – Neglects to fully fund the Emergency Food Program (TEFAP) by $20 million at a time of rising food costs and would leave 25,000 seniors unable to participate in the Commodity Supplemental Food Program.
• Social Security Administration – Allows Elon Musk and President Trump to fire thousands of employees at the Social Security Administration, which would result in closures of Social Security offices, increased wait times for the 1-800 number, and unacceptable backlogs for Social Security beneficiaries trying to access their earned benefits.
• Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) – The DRF will not be able to get through the remainder of the fiscal year and will need an influx of funding to address disasters throughout this fiscal year – especially with an approaching hurricane season. The fund is currently on pace to meet only the most dire immediate life and safety needs by late spring– in the middle of tornado season and well before hurricane season starts in June. 
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – Fails to provide additional resources for regulating the securities industry, enforcing securities laws, and protecting investors by ensuring fair and efficient markets, fostering transparency and preventing fraud. 
• K-12 Education – Funding for Democratic education priorities, such as grants for school-based mental health services and community schools, could be transferred to fund Trump administration priorities, such as charter schools. 
• Student Financial Assistance for College Students – Funding for student financial assistance programs would be at risk, including funding for Federal Work Study and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants. 
• Small Business Administration – Programs that benefit entrepreneurs, including veteran-owned small businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, could be cut or eliminated. 
• Public Stewardship Partners – No ability to protect funding for National Heritage Areas, National Trails System, and other caucus priorities. 
• Power Marketing Administrations – Does not provide the requested budgets for daily operations and maintenance activities at the Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs). PMAs provide electricity to more than 60 million people across 34 states, and without sufficient operating funds, customers are likely to experience energy cost increases and power disruptions.
• Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works Projects – Cuts $1.4 billion (44 percent) from Corps Construction activities and all project funding levels will be at the discretion of the administration, including for over 1,000 projects throughout the country that would otherwise be directed by Congress. These projects keep commerce safely flowing on our waterways, manage flood risk, and restore ecosystems. 
• Rural Development Broadband– Cuts support for the rural broadband Community Connect program by $30 million, undercutting key investments in Rural America.

The Republican full-year continuing resolution makes Americans less safe. 

• Federal Aviation Administration –  Provides a blank check to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the amount of $4 billion, enabling Elon Musk to direct contracts to Starlink and SpaceX (companies owned by Musk) at a time when unvetted and unchecked SpaceX employees have burrowed in the FAA (the same Federal agency that regulates SpaceX),with no requirement for public transparency, fair competition, or Congressional approval. This comes at a time when mission-critical jobs have been cut at the FAA and Elon Musk’s spaceships exploded across the United States and Caribbean during two failed space launches since January, causing major disruptions to air travelers across Florida, and forcing the FAA and commercial airlines to divert air travel for thousands of travelers and costing thousands in lost revenue. This is yet another example of the Trump administration prioritizing profits over the safety of the American people.
• Cuts Local Transportation Safety Projects – Cuts $2 billion in Congressionally directed projects designated to improve the safety of our airports, railways, roads, and ports across all 50 states and U.S. territories at a time when the Trump administration has unlawfully frozen more than $60 billion in grants to public and private partners who help protect the traveling public and lower the costs to transport our fuel, agriculture, and U.S. manufactured goods. This bill does nothing to hold Department of Transportation (DOT) accountable for its unlawful actions to freeze funds while also cutting basic transportation improvements projects that both Republicans and Democrats secured funding for in their districts.
• Office of National Drug Control Policy – The nearly $300 million High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, which ensures communities are equipped with the necessary resources to coordinate law enforcement strategies adequately to combat drugs, including opioids such as fentanyl, would not be directed to prioritize states with the highest overdose death rates when designating new areas. 
• Prioritizes Detention Beds, Including Restarting Family Detention Beds, Over Counter-Fentanyl and Other Cross-Border Enforcement Efforts – Provides ICE with close to a $10 billion blank check to continue its ongoing efforts to increase detention beds with no oversight guardrails or assurances that other critical homeland security operations and investigations, such as countering fentanyl and illicit narcotics, combatting human trafficking, and other transnational criminal activities are prioritized. 
• District of Columbia (DC) Local Funds – Limits DC to their fiscal year 2024 funding levels for local funding, drastically impacting the city. This would cut the District’s spending by more than $940 million. Law enforcement and public safety would be cut by nearly $240 million and education by nearly $400 million. Teachers, firefighters, law enforcement, and other first responders would be furloughed.
• Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism – Cuts $185 million (7 percent) for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation programs, including from programs that prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear and radioactive material; remove radioactive materials at risk of being misused or causing a catastrophic accident; and detect and monitor foreign nuclear fuel cycle and weapons development activities, nuclear material movement or diversion, and nuclear explosions.
• Maritime Security – Jeopardizes maritime readiness by shortchanging the Department of Transportation’s critical maritime fleet construction program that provides the Department of Defense supply chain logistics support and refueling needs, while also failing to meet the requirements of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024 funding levels.
• Ukraine – Shortchanges economic and security funding through the Department of State and USAID as the country transitions away from supplemental funding. 
• Federal Courts – No increase is provided for the Federal Courts and Public Defenders, despite increasing workloads. 
• Election Security – Cuts up to $40 million in election security grant funding, which means elections will be less fair and secure. 
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service – Recklessly underfunds the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service by $27 million, undercutting the response to avian flu.

The Republican full-year continuing resolution makes Americans less healthy, more vulnerable to deadly diseases.

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) – Cuts funding for NIH by $280 million due to reduced funding transferred from the 21st Century Cures Act. Congressional directives to support biomedical research priorities would disappear, including directives related to research on cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, mental health, maternal mortality, infectious diseases, genetic diseases, rare diseases, and countless other health conditions.
• Veterans’ Healthcare – Due to the success of the PACT Act, more veterans are enrolled in VA care than ever. While the bill includes $6 billion in mandatory funds to address the fiscal year 2025 shortfall, this bill fails to advance fund the $22.8 billion in fiscal year 2026, which House Republicans included in their bill. Reneging on this funding means future uncertainty in medical care for veterans.
• Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration (VHA) – Funding levels for some programs within VHA, such as homelessness assistance grants, mental health care, rural health, opioid and substance abuse programs, some oncology programs, and caregivers support, are not specified. The administration could redirect these funds to other purposes or eliminate them.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Funding for CDC would be allocated under 13 broad public health categories, ranging from $210 million to $1.4 billion, instead of being allocated to more than 130 public health programs and activities, specified by Congress, which would shift control over public health priorities from Congress to the Administration. 
• Health and Education Programs for Underserved Populations – Specific funding allocations for programs to assist underserved populations would be at risk, including programs such as health workforce training, minority health and women’s health, TRIO and GEAR UP programs, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions. 

The Republican full-year continuing resolution harms our environment. 

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Funding levels within the EPA are not specified, and the administration could eliminate funding for climate change, Environmental Justice, and PFAS research. 
• Renewable Energy – Funding within the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement could be eliminated. 
• Department of Energy’s Climate-Related Energy and Science Programs – Does not provide guidance to the $15 billion in climate-related funding that will then be at the whim of the administration. 
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service – All funding levels will be at the administration’s discretion. This includes nearly $2 billion in research priorities across the country that Congress would cede control of over to the administration, potentially putting at risk key investments in barley and smoke taint research. 
• USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture – Cuts $37 million from the National Institute for Food and Agriculture to support agricultural research across the country.
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service – Cuts $30 million from the Natural Resources Conservation Service for assistance to farmers to improve their lands and for conservation activities.
• Department of Commerce – the Trump administration would have broad discretion to eliminate individual programs of the Economic Development Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This includes individual NOAA programs impacting coastal and Great Lakes areas, as well as funding for climate change research and for improvements in the forecasting of severe weather. 
• International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) - Reduces the construction funds available to the IBWC by 50% reducing the ability to do needed repairs and maintenance to water infrastructure on the border.

Republicans must come back to the table to negotiate final full-year funding bills that protect the middle class, working people, veterans, and small businesses, not Elon Musk.