YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityWould replace shutdowns with 14-day funding blocks — Congress could not travel until the budget passes.
Your Money
If a spending law is late, money keeps flowing to programs that were funded the year before. It arrives in 14-day blocks that renew on their own, and it covers direct loans and loan guarantees.
Food aid under SNAP and other required payments would not drop during a funding gap. They would be paid at the level current law sets, not at a reduced rate.
Workers & Jobs
Agencies would stay funded, so staff would not be furloughed or sent home without pay. Their pay would continue at the rate set by the last spending law.
Transparency & Accountability
Members, congressional staff, and White House budget officials could not spend public money on official trips during a funding gap. Trips back to Washington, travel inside the capital area, and national security emergencies are the exceptions.
Election law now lets campaign money pay for travel tied to official duties. That use would be blocked during a funding gap, except for one trip back to Washington.
Neither chamber could move to take up other business while automatic funding runs. Debt limit bills would stay allowed, and after 30 days so would Supreme Court and top Cabinet nominations.
Neither chamber could vote to recess or adjourn for more than 23 hours until the spending bills pass. Each day at noon, the chair must also have the clerk check that enough members are present.
A simple majority could not set aside the travel, session, and floor rules. Two-thirds of the House or Senate would have to agree, and any waiver could last no more than 7 days.
More about this bill
Federal agencies would keep running if Congress misses a spending deadline. Money would flow at last year's rate, in 14-day blocks that renew on their own. That would last until a full-year spending law or a normal stopgap passes. Food aid and other benefit payments would stay at the levels current law sets. Federal workers would keep their paychecks instead of being sent home. The backup funding is built to be bare-bones, not business as usual. Agencies could take only the most limited step needed to keep each program going. Programs that normally send States or grantees a big sum early in the year could not do that. New grants would be off limits if they would lock in choices the real spending bill should make. Congress would also face new limits until it finishes the job. Members, their staff, and White House budget officials could not use tax money for official travel. Campaign funds could not pay for those trips either. Trips back to Washington, travel inside the capital area, and national security emergencies are exceptions. Neither chamber could take up most other business, or break for more than 23 hours. Debt limit bills would still be allowed. So would Supreme Court and top Cabinet picks, but only after 30 days. Setting these rules aside would take a two-thirds vote, and could last no more than 7 days. The limits on Congress would pause while a finished funding bill sits with the President.
Congressional Summary
Congress's official summary of this bill still describes an earlier version of the text, so we have left it out here. You can read it on Congress.gov.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-05-21
- Date Added
- 2026-06-08
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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