A majority of the funding will go toward the Commerce and Justice Departments, with $78 billion in funding for NASA, the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI, and the Bureau of Prisons, among others. The second-most expensive bill is Energy and Water, with roughly $58 billion allocated for the Energy Department. The interior funding bill comes in third, with over $38 billion spread out between the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency, among other agencies.

The package also includes just over $3 billion in community project funding, or earmarks, requested for House lawmakers’ home states. The total amount of earmarks, combined with the Senate’s requests, stands around $6.52 billion.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) had confirmed before the House left for the holidays that the chamber would be moving on the three-bill minibus when lawmakers returned from recess — though he had hoped to move on some of the bills before 2025 ended.

He said in a statement on Monday that the “bipartisan” legislation reflects the committee’s desire to fully fund the year. 

“President Trump set an important foundation by signing three appropriations bills into law in November, and we are carrying that momentum into the new year,” Cole said. “This bipartisan, bicameral package reflects steady progress toward completing FY26 funding responsibly. It invests in priorities crucial to the American people: making our communities safer, supporting affordable and reliable energy, and responsibly managing vital resources.”

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democratic appropriators, also offered their support of the bills in separate statements, with both arguing the bills give Congress back the power of the purse. 

DeLauro said the package “is a forceful rejection of draconian cuts to public services proposed by the Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress,” free of “Republican poison pill” provisions. 

Murray said passing the three bills will “help ensure that Congress, not President Trump and Russ Vought, decides how taxpayer dollars are spent — by once again providing hundreds of detailed spending directives and reasserting congressional control over these incredibly important spending decisions.”

With both Democratic ranking members endorsing them, the bills are likely to pass with wide bipartisan support.

Eyes will be on the conservative fiscal hawks in the House to see whether Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will face another vote showdown on the floor, as has become customary since he took the speaker’s gavel.

Johnson praised the bills in a statement Monday, saying it is a step toward avoiding a “bloated omnibus bill” and would “spend less than another continuing resolution.”

This is likely to gain favor with the fiscal hawks, who have been loath to continue operating under numbers set by the former president. The hawks have also previously been opposed to larger “omnibus” packages, so the minibus has been considered the best course of action by appropriators on both sides of the aisle.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris (R-MD) told Fox News the caucus is still going through the minibus, but it “appears to be in line with keeping this year’s discretionary spending below last year’s level — which is a good first step to actually lowering spending next year to control our runaway federal debt.”

Whether the rest of the caucus shares that sentiment remains to be seen. One House Republican told the Washington Examiner they were “deeply concerned” about voting on a rule for the Commerce, Science, and Justice bill that has not yet passed the House. They pointed to issues with providing grants to “anti-ICE jurisdictions” and “those ripe for fraud.”

“Trying to review – but unlikely to vote for the bill as is,” the Republican said.

Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Ralph Norman (R-SC), vocal Freedom Caucus members, sit on the Rules Committee, which is set to meet to advance the minibus on Tuesday night. 

Though the committee has traditionally served as an extension of leadership, the fiscal hawks have been known to go against the GOP conference over high spending levels or conservative priorities that aren’t being advanced. The Washington Examiner reached out to Roy and Norman for comment. 

Monday’s package comes after House and Senate leaders were able to conference, or come to an agreement, on three of the remaining nine bills that have yet to be passed for fiscal 2026. The government shutdown, which lasted a record-breaking 43 days, yielded a CR until Jan. 30 and passage of three bills: Legislative Branch, Veterans Affairs, and Agriculture.

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If Congress can pass the three-bill package this week, that will lessen the chances of another shutdown, but it gives appropriators only three weeks to pass the remaining six before the end of the month — and of the six, a handful are some of the most controversial, including Labor-Health and Human Services.

The Senate could face some roadblocks, as Colorado’s senators issued a hold on all appropriations bills back in December over the Trump administration’s work to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. The hold essentially prevented Senate leadership from moving forward on a five-bill minibus before the holidays, though that minibus would have likely met staunch opposition from House fiscal hawks.