Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes.

Food aid and other benefits paid through spending bills would continue at the levels current law sets. The bill names the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, the law behind SNAP.

TANF gives states money for cash aid, child care, and work programs for families with children. This funding would otherwise stop when the 2026 budget year ends on September 30, 2026.

Some benefits are paid on or near the first of the month. If the bill's funding ended on December 4, 2026, those payments could still be made for about 30 more days.

The National Flood Insurance Program's power to write and renew policies ends on September 30, 2026. This bill would move that date to December 4, 2026. If it passed later, the change would count back to September 30.

WIC helps pregnant women, new mothers, and children under five buy food. A flat funding rate could force waiting lists. The bill would let WIC spend at the rate needed to hold current enrollment.

FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund pays for response and recovery after a declared disaster. A flat funding rate could leave it short. This bill would let FEMA spend at the rate the work needs.

The bill adds $75,774,000 for Indian Health Services and $8,296,000 for Indian Health Facilities. The money pays to staff and run sites opened, renovated, or expanded in 2022, 2026, and 2027.

The Small Business Administration guarantees loans that banks make to small firms. A flat funding rate could cap how many it backs. The bill would let it approve more if demand rises.

Washington, D.C. needs approval from Congress to spend the local taxes it collects. The bill would let the city spend at the rate set in its own 2027 local budget, through December 4, 2026.

Agencies could move money to cover salaries so staff are not sent home without pay. They would first have to cut or delay spending on things like travel and supplies.

Federal law caps a worker's total pay for the year. Wildland firefighters can hit that cap in a long fire season. Their fire overtime would be left out of the cap through calendar year 2026.

The Defense Department could not start making items it did not produce in 2026, raise production rates, or begin new projects. Multiyear buys would also wait for a full-year defense bill.

A 1946 law gives members of Congress a yearly cost-of-living raise unless Congress blocks it. This bill would block it for as long as the bill's funding runs.

The Vice President, top executive branch officials, ambassadors, and political appointees at those pay levels would stay at their December 31, 2026 rate. Career staff are not covered.

Interior and the Forest Service could spend on wildfire suppression at the rate the fire season requires. A flat rate could otherwise limit firefighting during a heavy season.

All funding in this bill would stop on December 4, 2026, or sooner if Congress passes the matching full-year bill. Congress would have to act again by then.

Cuts written into the 2026 spending bills would keep applying. By November 20, 2026, the White House budget office would owe the Appropriations Committees a full list of them, updated on request.

A 1999 law makes meat packers report the prices they pay for livestock, and the Agriculture Department publishes the data. That requirement would otherwise end on September 30, 2026.

Several laws bar the State Department and intelligence agencies from spending money unless a separate law approves the activity first. The bill would let them spend without that step.

The bill names two payments: $174,000 to Alfredia Scott, widow of Representative David Scott of Georgia, and $174,000 to the heirs of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Both died in office.