The House on Thursday passed the broad funding bill covering multiple agencies, including a $22.2 billion budget for the FAA in fiscal year 2026, but its future remains uncertain as it heads to the Senate for consideration this week. Under a stopgap measure passed in November, Congress has until Friday to complete work on the legislation or face the specter of another shutdown of a large tranche of the government, including the Department of Transportation and its agencies.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers had ostensibly reached a compromise on the funding package, but after the second fatal shooting in Minneapolis involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the weekend, Democrats are now reportedly backing away from support of the Department of Homeland Security portion. According to Washington insider publication Politico, the Senate was to have voted on the package on Thursday. Democrats have indicated some support for voting for the agencies individually, but that has not surfaced yet as a possibility on the Republican side.
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