Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2027

Volunteer sites help lower-income filers finish returns at no cost. The plan also sets aside $12 million for elderly filers and $28 million for low-income tax clinics.

Section 502 stops the Consumer Product Safety Commission from writing or enforcing any rule that bans gas stoves as a class of product.

The Postal Service could not use this money to shut or merge small rural and other small post offices. Free mail for overseas voters and blind readers also continues.

The Small Business Administration could back that much general business lending in 2027. Of it, $10 billion is held for small manufacturers that make everything in the United States.

Section 113 bars any money for building or offering a free public tax-filing tool. The IRS would first need sign-off from four committees in Congress.

Sections 613 and 614 keep a long-standing ban on paying for abortion through federal employee health plans. The exceptions are rape, incest, and danger to the mother's life.

Section 761 bars federal employee plans from covering surgery, puberty blockers, or hormone therapy for gender transition. It reaches money from this plan and earlier ones.

A 2017 standard would make table saws stop the blade on contact with skin. Section 503 blocks money to finish or enforce it.

Section 754 keeps the Thrift Savings Plan, the retirement plan for federal workers and service members, from offering funds that pick investments mainly on environmental, social, or governance grounds.

Section 741 bars agencies from starting or announcing a public-private competition to move federal work to contractors.

Section 737 ties trade and craft workers' 2027 raises to what desk staff get. Local wage surveys could not push their pay above that level.

Section 747 holds the Vice President's pay and senior political appointees' pay flat through calendar 2027. Career staff below those levels are not affected.

Section 716 bars agencies from giving a federal worker's home address to a labor union. The worker's own approval or a court order is the only route.

Section 636 blocks money for any office, program, or training on diversity, equity, and inclusion at the agencies funded here.

Section 755 bars agencies from tagging an American's words as mis-, dis-, or mal-information. It also stops funding groups that press platforms to remove lawful speech.

Section 725 bars agencies from collecting or combining data that identifies which websites a person visits. Law enforcement and site-security uses are excepted.

Section 639 bars the government from pulling a grant, contract, license, tax exemption, or benefit because a person acts on the belief that marriage is one man and one woman.

Section 758 blocks money for any COVID-19 mask or vaccine requirement. Section 830 applies the same bar to the District of Columbia.

Section 136 stops Treasury from studying, designing, or building a U.S. central bank digital currency. It also bars any part in a decision to stop using paper money.

Executive Order 14019 directed agencies to help people register and vote. Section 757 blocks money to carry out all of it except sections 7, 8, and 10.

Section 753 withholds federal money from any state, city, or town that lets non-citizens vote in federal elections. Section 643 separately bars spending that helps a non-citizen register.

Section 820 repeals the District's Death With Dignity Act and blocks the city from passing a similar law. Terminally ill D.C. residents would lose that option.

Federal defender offices and court-appointed lawyers are paid from this line. It also covers the investigators and experts those lawyers hire.

Section 809 stops the District from cutting penalties for possessing, using, or selling Schedule I drugs. That includes THC products sold for recreational use.

The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program pays for joint federal, state, and local drug squads. At least 51 percent must reach state and local agencies within 120 days.

Section 828 blocks the District from spending any money to run its 2022 Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Act.

Section 829 repeals parts of the Youth Rehabilitation Amendment Act that let judges give lighter sentences to young adults. The older rules come back.

Section 901 orders the Federal Reserve to raise the asset cutoff in its small bank holding company policy to $12 billion. Firms under that line face lighter capital rules.

Section 644 blocks money for any new rule the White House regulatory office finds would hit the economy for $100 million a year, or sharply raise prices. It reaches every agency funded here.

Section 510 blocks money for any rule defining unfair methods of competition under the FTC Act. The agency could still bring cases one at a time.

Section 509 stops the FTC from finishing its earnings-claims rule or its business-opportunity rule review. Those cover the income promises made to people buying into a business.

Section 507 blocks money for the 2024 FCC rule meant to stop unequal broadband access by income, race, or neighborhood.

Section 832 bars the District from using its Consumer Protection Act against oil and gas firms over environmental claims.

Section 745 blocks awards to a company convicted of a federal felony within the past two years. An agency may still proceed after weighing suspension or debarment.

The payment continues the long-term plan to cut combined sewer overflows into local rivers. D.C. Water must match every dollar.

Section 634 bars money for buying electric vehicles, batteries, or charging equipment for federal fleets. Hybrids, including plug-in hybrids, are still allowed.

Section 645 blocks money to finish or enforce the SEC's 2024 climate disclosure rule. Investors would not get the standard climate figures it required.

Section 822 stops the District from enforcing its December 2023 rule adopting California vehicle emission standards.

Section 522 blocks the Small Business Administration from spending anything on climate change initiatives.

Section 742 denies federal money to any company that makes staff sign agreements blocking them from reporting fraud, waste, or abuse.

Section 713 cuts off the salary of any federal official who stops or punishes a worker for contacting a member of Congress.

Section 623 bars agencies from withholding or slowing records an inspector general asks for. Failures must be reported to Congress within five days.

Section 202 requires a written statement of costs, benefits, and revenue for every executive order issued or revoked in 2027. Presidential memos need one only above $100 million.

Section 608 docks an agency's salary account $100,000 a day when it misses the spending report Congress requires.

The plan keeps the CDFI Fund's bond guarantee power in force through 2028. Commitments are capped at $500 million, and no new subsidy money is provided this year.

Section 632 blocks any SEC rule making companies disclose political donations, gifts to tax-exempt groups, or trade association dues.

Section 735 stops agencies from making a company reveal its political spending as a condition of bidding on federal work.

Section 131 withholds all money from Treasury's financial-crimes unit until it finalizes a 2025 rule that narrows who must report their true owners.

Section 760 writes ten named executive orders into spending law. Every agency funded here would have to comply with each one.

Section 759 names NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index. It also reaches any group that rates the credibility of U.S. outlets based on lawful speech.

Section 523 blocks all hiring at the Small Business Administration's District of Columbia office until its Coachella Valley, California satellite office has a senior area manager.

Section 817 lifts an old District railroad restriction for the new Long Bridge over the Potomac. The project would add commuter and regional rail plus bike and pedestrian crossings.

Section 827 lets anyone holding a valid weapons carry permit from any state or territory carry a concealed handgun in the District and on Metro.

Section 114 bars the IRS from buying guns or ammunition beyond what it held on December 22, 2022.