Funds the federal government through September 2025 at mostly 2024 levels

§1What it does

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This 2025 law funded federal agencies for the rest of the 2025 fiscal year, through September 30, 2025, using a full-year continuing resolution, a stopgap measure, instead of the regular yearly spending bills.^2,3 It generally kept programs at their 2024 funding levels, with some increases and decreases for particular programs, and it averted the government shutdown that would otherwise have begun when the previous stopgap expired on March 14, 2025.² It also extended a range of expiring programs and authorities through the 2025 fiscal year, including community health center funding, Medicare telehealth flexibilities and extra payments for some rural hospitals, a delay in cuts to Medicaid payments for hospitals that treat many low-income patients, and the temporary listing of fentanyl-related substances as schedule I drugs.²

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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