Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025
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Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025
This bill provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if an appropriations bill for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins and continuing appropriations are not in effect.
For an initial 90-day period, the bill provides continuing appropriations at 94% of the rate for the preceding year to continue programs, projects, and activities for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal year. The bill reduces the continuing appropriations by 1% after the first 90-day period and by an additional 1% for each subsequent 90-day period until the applicable appropriations legislation is enacted.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 499: Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-499/
"S. 499: Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-499/.
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