HR 4553 Passed in the House – FY 2026 EWR Spending

Today the House completed their consideration of HR 4553, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026. The House began consideration of the bill yesterday and took up a combined total of 36 amendments. None of the amendments were of specific interest here; the Chinese grid equipment amendment I mentioned earlier was not added to the list of amendments in the House Report on H Res 672, the rule for the consideration of this HR 4553. The bill passed by a final near-party-line vote of 214 to 213. Four Republicans voted against the bill.

The bill now moves to the Senate. If the Senate were to take up HR 4553 as passed in the House, it would almost certainly not get the 60 votes necessary for passage in that body. What normally happens, however, is that the Senate substitutes language from their version of the bill and uses that as the base for their amendment processes. The Senate Appropriations Committee has not yet passed their version of the EWR spending bill. The Committee has been producing strongly bipartisan spending bills in this session; the same would be expected for this bill.