Trump Signs Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025: Shutdown Averted, Funding Runs Through September 30
On March 15, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (H.R. 1968) into law in Washington as Public Law 119-4. With the previous stopgap measure expiring on March 14, the enactment averted a federal government shutdown and funded the government through September 30, the end of fiscal year 2025.
The bill was introduced on March 10 by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole. The House passed it on March 11 by a vote of 217-213. In the Senate, cloture was invoked on March 14 by a vote of 62-38; four amendments were considered and none was agreed to, and the Senate then passed the bill without amendment by a vote of 54-46 and sent it to the President the same day. Trump signed it on March 15.
Division A of the act provides full-year continuing appropriations for all 12 regular appropriations acts for fiscal year 2025, generally continuing the amounts, authorities, and conditions of the fiscal year 2024 acts, with specific adjustments for certain accounts. The act expressly excludes the Community Project Funding and Congressionally Directed Spending items (earmarks) funded in the fiscal year 2024 acts. Under section 1106 of Division A, the funding and authorities run through September 30, 2025.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the act provides $1.60 trillion in base discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2025, including about $892.5 billion for defense and about $708 billion for nondefense purposes; counting amounts effectively exempt from the statutory spending caps, total discretionary budget authority is about $1.72 trillion. Compared with fiscal year 2024, defense spending rises by about $6 billion and nondefense spending falls by about $13 billion, with the nondefense reduction coming mainly from the removal of earmarks.
Division B of the act extends a series of health-related authorizations, including funding extensions for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps and teaching health centers that operate graduate medical education programs, the special diabetes programs, and national health security programs.
According to the Congressional Research Service, this is the fourth full-year continuing appropriations act enacted since fiscal year 2000. Its enactment closes out the fiscal year 2025 appropriations process; Congress must complete fiscal year 2026 appropriations legislation by September 30 if federal funding is not to lapse again. (Source: U.S. Congress)
Related: Biden Signs American Relief Act, 2025: Shutdown Averted, Funding Extended to March 14
Source: U.S. Congress
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Photo: 图：位于华盛顿的美国国会大厦西立面全景——《2025年全年度持续拨款与延期法》即由国会两院通过后送交总统签署（Noclip，公共领域，Wikimedia Commons）。 / Image: Panorama of the west facade of the U.S. Capitol in Washington — the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 passed both chambers of Congress before being sent to the President for signature (Noclip, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).
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