Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026

HR6900 — American Affordability Act of 2025

This bill would be a broad tax-credit overhaul that rewrites incentives across housing, families, and clean energy. It would create monthly child payments, reshape housing tax programs, and add new investment credits for recycling, transmission, and batteries. - Families, children, and caregivers: It would create a monthly Child Tax Credit of $300 for children 6 and older and $360 for those under 6, with a portal and presumptive eligibility rules. It would also raise the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit rates to 50% and increase qualifying expense limits to $8,000 single and $16,000 per family. - Renters, homebuyers, and developers: It would change Low‑Income Housing Tax Credit rules, repeal the qualified contract option for most buildings, and create new housing incentives including an Affordable Housing Conversion Credit with program caps described that include $12.0 billion and a separate $3.0 billion AHCC designation program. - Clean energy, transport, and industry: It would extend many clean energy and clean vehicle credits and add new investment credits that are generally 30%. It would authorize a $3.0 billion advanced battery credit allocation and create credits for water reuse, recycling, and transmission line projects.

HR7481 — Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026

DHS funding with strict oversight. This bill would set FY2026 funding levels across the Department of Homeland Security and attach detailed reporting, transfer limits, and program rules to many accounts.

HR3971 — Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act

Extending workplace rights to domestic workers. The bill would set enforceable labor standards for household workers, add overtime and live‑in protections, require written agreements, create a Domestic Employee Standards Board, and push Medicaid rules to cover home care workers.

HR1974 — Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2025

Short‑term funding extensions to keep key health, Medicare/Medicaid, human services, defense, and disaster accounts funded through April 11–12, 2025 while adding targeted appropriations for specific programs and emergencies. - Patients and community providers: extends funding for Community Health Centers ($132.6 million), the National Health Service Corps ($11.0 million), Teaching Health Centers ($6.1 million), and diabetes programs ($4.8 million) through April 11, 2025. This keeps clinic operations and provider scholarships running for the short gap. - Medicare, hospitals, and seniors: preserves higher payments for low‑volume and Medicare‑dependent hospitals, extends ambulance add‑ons and several telehealth flexibilities into mid‑April 2025, and delays certain Medicare payment changes to avoid immediate disruptions. - Defense, disaster response, and tribal relocation: authorizes up to $3.3 billion for Columbia Class submarine procurement, $1.9 billion for prior shipbuilding cost increases, and up to $750 million for FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund if the President designates it. It also provides small, program‑specific payments for Navajo‑Hopi relocation and other accounts. Adds several targeted emergency and continuing appropriations, increasing near‑term federal spending.

HR51 — Washington, D.C. Admission Act

Full statehood for Washington, Douglass Commonwealth would admit the District of Columbia as a new state on equal footing, while defining a smaller federal "Capital" and setting staged transitions for courts, property, and federal programs. - Capital residents would gain full congressional representation: two U.S. Senators and one U.S. Representative. The bill also requires states to allow "absent Capital" residents to vote by absentee ballot in federal elections. - The U.S. House would be permanently increased to 436 members and apportionment would be adjusted beginning with the first decennial census after admission. - The bill defines the federal Capital with a required 180-day survey, preserves federal court, prosecutorial, prison, parole, National Guard, and employee benefit arrangements on a temporary basis, and phases those responsibilities to the State as it certifies the necessary laws and personnel are in place.

HR20 — Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025

Strengthens worker organizing rights and enforcement. The bill broadens who counts as an employee or joint employer and builds tougher remedies, penalties, and election rules to make organizing and bargaining easier to enforce and monitor. - Workers: Expands who is treated as an employee by tightening the three-part test for independent contractors and broadening the joint-employer test to include direct, indirect, and reserved control. It adds clear protections for strike participation and allows back pay without reduction and liquidated damages equal to twice awarded damages. - Employers: Requires prompt disclosure and new notice duties including a detailed voter list within two business days and multilingual employee notices. Noncompliance can trigger civil penalties including up to $50,000 per unfair labor practice, up to $10,000 per refusal to obey Board orders, and fines for posting or voter-list violations. - Elections, agencies, and unions: NLRB must adopt remote electronic voting within one year and aim to hold elections within twenty business days. The bill also boosts NLRB reporting and transparency, expands private suits, and creates new whistleblower protections and expedited enforcement.