Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
(last updated 3/16/25)
The United States Senate voted on Friday evening 52-46 to clear HR 1968, the 2025 Full Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (aka the Continuing Resolution/CR) and sent it along to the White House, where President Trump signs the funding bill on March 15th.
Here are links to HR 1968 as passed by the House and Senate along with a Section-by-Section Summary:
This year-long Continuing Resolution (CR) funds the government at Fiscal 2024 enacted levels through September 30, 2025.
This legislation increases Fiscal 2025 Defense spending by $6 Billion and reduces non-defense spending by $13 Billion.
The CR provides DOD with conditional authority to embark on New Starts during the CR.
Non-Defense agencies are prohibited from undertaking New Starts under the CR.
Defense-related highlights from the CR that should be of particular interest to Carahsoft vendor partners are as follows:
- Permits DOD new starts during the duration of the CR so long as they are part of FY25 House and Senate DOD appropriations bills
- Increases from 20% to 40% the amount of Fiscal 2025 DOD funding that can be spent during the last two months of FY25
- Increases from $6 Billion to $8B DOD’s authority to reprogram funding for emerging technologies
- Provides an $5.7B of emergency spending for Navy Shipbuilding
Civilian related highlights with spending impacts and policy provisions contained in the CR are as follows:
- $754M increase for FAA Operations
- $20 Billion recission/cut to the Internal Revenue Service
- $40M decrease to 70 programs supporting aid to children and families
- $890M decrease to Health Care and Equipment funding
- $293M decrease to Disaster Mitigation funding
- $0 funding for California wildfire and NC hurricane relief efforts
- NIST Construction of Facilities funding halved to $88M
- NIST Scientific and Technical Research funding reduced from $1B to $857M
- Additional funding to the Justice Information Sharing Technology account to cover the Department’s cybersecurity operations and to the Federal Prisoner Detention account to cover increasing costs and expanded immigration enforcement.
- Extends the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act until September 30, 2025.
- Provides authority for the Department of Health and Human Services to use fees collected from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) for the OPTN Modernization Initiative.
- Eliminates $13 Billion in congressional earmarks
The enactment of the year-long CR now clears the decks for Congress to begin its oversight of the Fiscal 2026 budget process. This process will technically begin when President Trump submits his Fiscal 2026 Budget Request to Congress. While there is no word yet on when his Fiscal 2026 budget will be released, we expect President Trump will provide Congress a Fiscal 2026 budget in the April or May timeframe.
