HR 7006 Passes in the House – 3rd FY 2026 Minibus

Yesterday the House took up HR 7006, the Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026. This is the third minibus spending bill for FY 2026. The bill as considered under a rule, H Res 992, that provided for limited debate and the consideration of two amendments. The rule passed early in the day by a straight party-line vote of 213 to 210.

The House leadership avoided the difficulty seen in the rule vote for the earlier minibus, by agreeing to floor votes on two amendments offered by Republican bomb-throwers, Rep Roy (R,TX) and Rep Crane (R,AZ). Roy’s amendment on DC Circuit court spending failed by a vote of 163 to 257, with 46 Republicans voting NAY. Similarly, Crane’s amendment to prohibit funding for the National Endowment for Democracy failed by a vote of 127 to 291, with 81 Republicans voting NAY.

The final vote on HR 7006 was a bipartisan 341 to 79, with opposition coming from both Republicans (22) and Democrats (57).

The bill now moves to the Senate for consideration. The Senate is currently scheduled to be out of Washington next week, but it could still take up HR 7006 in the last week in January and still meet the current January 30^th deadline to keep the remainder of the federal government open. This would still leave four spending bills incomplete (DOD, DHS, THUD, and LHH). The House passed the HR 4016, the DOD spending bill back in July, so the Senate could technically complete action on that bill before the deadline arrives. That was a partisan House bill, so it would almost certainly have to be amended in the Senate to pass, which would require a subsequent vote in the House before the bill went to the President. There has not been any announcement yet of a 4^th minibus to close out the spending bills, but with the controversies surrounding those bills (particularly DHS), I suspect that a continuing resolution will be required to keep those agencies open past January 30^th.