House and Senate Appropriators released the texts of four bipartisan FY 26 appropriations bills this morning -- Defense, Homeland Security, Transportation-HUD, and Labor-HHS. These are the last of the twelve appropriations bills needed to move forward to meet appropriators’ overall goals of enacting every appropriations bill before the Continuing Resolution expires on January 30th. The House is expected to take up these bills as soon as Thursday, while the Senate will address these bills, along with two other outstanding bills, when it returns from recess next week.

This year’s Labor-HHS bill reflects a comprise $221 billion overall funding level , a slight cut compared to $221.4 in FY 25. A deeper dive before offsets are included reflects a $194.9 billion funding level, which is $2.1 billion below the Senate proposal, but $10.4 billion above the House proposal.

The Department of Education would receive $78.7 billion in discretionary spending, about $56 million above its total funding this past year and $12 billion more than sought by the Administration. The agreement provides $3.3 billion for higher education programs, up from about $3.1 billion. The maximum Pell Grant would be level funded at $7,395, rejecting the Administration’s attempt to cut maximum grants by over $1,000. It also sustains current funding for Federal Work Study and the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, along with TRIO and CCAMPIS programming, and a host of other programming.

The Department of Health and Human Services would be allotted $116 billion in discretionary spending, $210 million over amounts enacted for FY 25, including a boost of $415 million for NIH. It rejects several key changes sought by the Administration, including forward funding NIH grants, which would have had the effect of reducing the total number of grants awarded annually, and rejects capping their administrative costs rate at 15%. The package includes $888 million for the HRSA Title VII health professions and Title VIII nursing workforce development programs, 0.3% increase in overall funding to the programs compared to FY 25 enacted levels. The bill also includes provisions that would reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, to promote mental health and substance use services for health providers, through FY 2030.

The bill text can be found here and the Joint Explanatory Statement here.

Summaries from House Republicans can be found here, House Democrats here, and Senate Democrats here.