Durbin Secures Support For Illinois Priorities In Recently Passed Package Of Five Government Funding Bills

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced the various priorities for Illinois he secured in the recently passed package of five government funding bills for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Defense; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, and Related Agencies; Financial Services and General Government; and State and Foreign Operations for Fiscal Year 2026.
“With these five government funding bills, Congress has nearly completed the appropriations process for Fiscal Year 2026. While the President proposed a budget that axed critical government programs and slashed medical research funding, Congress rejected these cuts on a bipartisan basis,”said Durbin.“But our work is not done. Because federal agents from CBP and ICE continue their reign of terror on American cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, we must see real changes at DHS before I am willing to consider voting to fund the agency.”
The bill also included several provisions that authorized and extended critical government programs:
The five funding bills include the following Illinois priorities secured by Congressionally Directed Spending requests:
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Transportation, Housing, And Urban Development
Financial Services and General Government
The five funding bills include additional Illinois priorities secured through the programmatic appropriations process:
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Education (ED)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Defense
Transportation and Housing and Urban Development
Department of Transportation: Includes $28.5 billion in total funding
Department of Housing and Urban Development: Includes $84.3 billion for total funding
Financial Services and General Government
U.S. Department of Treasury
U.S. Judiciary
Independent Agencies
State and Foreign Operations
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