S. 3066 119th Congress Senate

Pay the People Act

Official title: A bill to appropriate funds for pay and allowances of Federal employees during a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 28, 2025 Introduced by: John Kennedy Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov

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Oct 28, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Oct 28, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Pay the People Act

This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees during a government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations.

Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments to agency employees (including contractors and members of the Armed Forces on active duty) during any period in which interim continuing appropriations or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown).

A federal agency may not use the funds provided by this bill during any period in which continuing appropriations are in effect for the purpose of paying employees of the agency.

The bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2025.

Related & companion bills 2

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Appropriations Committee
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Lobbying activity 4

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
for NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION · District of Columbia · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)

Bodies those filers lobbied

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
4 filings
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
4 filings
Energy, Dept of
4 filings
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
4 filings
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
4 filings
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
4 filings
General Services Administration (GSA)
4 filings
Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
4 filings

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3066: Pay the People Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3066/

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"S. 3066: Pay the People Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3066/.

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S. 3066, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3066/.

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