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Government funding deadline
Data as of October 9, 2026
From the official record
Signed into law as Public Law 119-103.
What Congress is deciding
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Federal agencies are funded through December 11, 2026, under a stopgap law. The House passed its own stopgap, H.R. 9770, on July 21 (220–205), running to December 4; the Senate received it the next day and has not acted on it. Instead, the Senate turned a different House bill, H.R. 6500, into a stopgap and passed it 90–6 on August 8. The House agreed 370–48 on September 1, and the president signed it on September 2 as Public Law 119-103. The next deadline is December 11: by then Congress has to pass the full-year spending bills or another stopgap. No new stopgap is on the record yet.
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Summary updated September 24, 2026.
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Stopgap bill would fund government at 2026 levels through December 4, 2026
Passed the House; waiting on the Senate.
The House's stopgap, passed July 21, 2026, 220–205, to fund agencies through December 4. The Senate received it on July 22 and has not acted on it. H.R. 6500 became law instead, and it is the law that sets the December 11 deadline.
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Where it stands · October 2, 2026
The latest action in the official record on these measures is dated September 2, 2026.
How this summary has changed (11)
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As of September 25, 2026
H.R. 6500 stands as signed into law. H.R. 9770 stands as passed one chamber. No recorded votes were logged on either measure in the last 14 days, and nothing else was recorded in that window. H.R. 6500 completed the full legislative process and became law prior to this period. H.R. 9770 cleared one chamber and awaits further action, with no additional floor activity noted in the last 14 days. Named sources have not offered comment on either measure in this window, so no attribution is included here. These are the current statuses on record for both bills as of the most recent update available.
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As of September 22, 2026
Where it stands: H.R. 9770 has passed one chamber. No further action has been recorded in the last 14 days. The bill remains at that stage, with no committee action, no floor vote in a second chamber, and no other change to report since it passed one chamber. There is nothing new to add beyond that current status. Readers tracking this bill can expect this notice to update once the record shows a new vote, a committee action, or another formal step in either chamber. Until then, passed one chamber is the accurate and complete description of where this measure sits right now, based solely on the official record available for this period.
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As of September 15, 2026
Where it stands: H.R. 9770 has passed one chamber. No action has been recorded on this bill in the last fourteen days. The measure remains at that stage, with no further floor activity, committee action, or scheduling update to report during this period. There is no new vote tally, roll-call number, or text change to add beyond the status already reached. Readers tracking this bill should expect the next development to appear once the record shows a new action; until then, the passage by one chamber stands as the most current fact on file for this measure.
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As of September 7, 2026
H.R. 9770 stands passed by one chamber. No action has been recorded on it in the past fourteen days. The bill has not moved beyond that single-chamber passage, and no further floor action, committee action, or scheduling has been entered into the record during this period. There is nothing else to report on its status at this time; it remains where it stood, awaiting whatever comes next in the process. No named source has spoken to what happens next, and none is quoted here.
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As of August 30, 2026
H.R. 9770 stands passed by one chamber. No action on it has been recorded in the last 14 days. The bill's status has not changed since it cleared that chamber, and it has not been taken up by the other chamber in this window. There is no new vote, no roll-call number, and no committee action to report for this period. The measure remains where it was: through one chamber, awaiting further action elsewhere. Readers following this bill will see no movement to describe today beyond its existing status. When further floor or committee activity is entered into the record, it will be reflected here with dates, tallies, and text as reported.
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As of August 23, 2026
H.R. 9770 stands passed by one chamber. No new action on this measure has been recorded in the last 14 days. The bill's current status remains where it was: approved in the chamber that voted on it, with no further recorded step since. No committee action, no additional floor vote, and no other procedural move appears in the record for this period. Anyone tracking this bill will find the status unchanged from the prior stretch, with the single-chamber passage as the latest fact on file.
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As of August 16, 2026
H.R. 9770 stands where it has stood: passed one chamber. No action on the bill was recorded in the last 14 days. The measure has not moved beyond that single chamber vote, and there is no new roll call, committee action, or scheduling entry to report. Readers following this bill should expect the next update to note whichever chamber takes it up, if and when that happens. For now, the record shows no change since the bill cleared its first chamber. No further votes, amendments, or hearings appear in the file for this period. The status remains exactly as recorded: passed one chamber, nothing more logged.
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As of August 8, 2026
H.R. 9770 stands passed by one chamber. No action has been recorded on this bill in the last 14 days. That means the bill has cleared the chamber where it started, and it now waits for the other chamber to take it up. There is no committee action, no floor vote, and no new text to report in this window. The record shows no further movement beyond the one-chamber passage already on file. Until new action is recorded, the bill's status remains unchanged from where it stands now.
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As of August 1, 2026
H.R. 9770 has passed one chamber. The House approved the bill on July 21, 2026, by a recorded vote of 220 to 205 (Roll no. 272). The following day, July 22, 2026, the bill was received in the Senate. No further floor action is recorded in the last 14 days. The measure now sits with the Senate, where no vote has yet been recorded.
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As of July 25, 2026
H.R. 9770, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027, has passed one chamber. The House passed the bill on July 21, 2026, by a recorded vote of 220 to 205 (Roll no. 272), with the text printed at CR H4731-4733. The measure had been scheduled for floor action on July 16, 2026. On July 22, 2026, the bill was received in the Senate. That is where the record currently stands.
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As of July 25, 2026
The House passed H.R. 9770, the short-term funding extension, 220-205 on July 21, 2026. The Senate received the bill on July 22, 2026 and has not voted on it.
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What's moved
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October 9, 2026Nothing recorded yet today.
September 26 – October 8, 2026Nothing recorded across 13 days.
September 2, 2026
- Floor actionH.R. 6500
“Signed by President.”
Sourcescongress.gov
- Floor actionH.R. 6500
“Became Public Law No: 119-103.”
Sourcescongress.gov
- Floor actionH.R. 6500
“Presented to President.”
Sourcescongress.gov
September 1, 2026
- VoteH.R. 6500
“On motion that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendments Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 370 - 48 (Roll no. 286). (consideration: CR H5387; text: CR H5377-5383)”
Sourcescongress.govclerk.house.gov
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