FY 2027 Spending Bill Markups – 4-17-26

 Yesterday, the House.gov website added two new committee hearings for Friday, April 17th, 2026. Both are markup hearings by subcommittees of the House Appropriations Committee. These will likely be the first two FY 2027 spending bills to be considered in the House. Those two bills are: 

• Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027 (MilCon), and 
• Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2027 (FinSvcs). 

These hearings are being held almost a month and a half earlier than normal. If Congress is going to have any chance of passing spending bills before the end of September, early action by the Appropriations Committee is going to be required. The Committee hearing page would seem to indicate that their plan is to begin introducing spending bill next week. Then we will have to see if the House leadership can successfully bring those bills to the floor of the House. 

Spending bills that pass in the House along party-line votes have little or no chance of passing in the Senate.  

The hearing schedule in the Senate is still focused on the President’s budget request. This means that the Committee’s versions of the spending bills will still be weeks away from being available for consideration when the Senate takes up the House passed bills. The longer that delay lasts, the less likely it will be that Congress will pass spending bills in regular order.