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

February 06, 2026

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

The package included Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Defense; Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development; Financial Services and General Government; and State and Foreign Operations 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:

• Health Extender Package: Includes both the typical extensions for key mandatory funding programs until December 31, 2026, as well as new bipartisan policy reforms:

1. Haiti/Africa Trade Cooperation: The bill extends trade programs for Haiti and Africa through December 2026. These programs, increase market access and enhance supply chains for U.S. companies while supporting economic growth and countering Chinese influence in Haiti and Africa.

The five funding bills include the following Illinois priorities secured by Congressionally Directed Spending requests:

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

• Center for Middle School Civic Leadership, Chicago, Illinois: $720,000 to DePaul University to establish DePaul University's Center for Middle School Civic Leadership.

• Community Mental Health Program Expansion, Will County, Illinois: $1 million to the Joliet Fire Department to expand the community mental health program it developed to Will County. In Joliet, the program has resulted in a reduction in the regular users of their 911 system and a 50 percent reduction in suicides-including zero teenage suicides in two years.

• Dental Clinic Expansion, Edwardsville, Illinois: $1.1 million to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University to renovate and expand the dental clinic operated by SIU's Dental School to increase pediatric and specialty services to the community. This clinic, which is staffed by professors and students of the dental school, is the safety net dental provider for the majority of Southern Illinois for children covered under Medicaid or uninsured patients.

• Dental Clinic Expansion, Champaign, Illinois: $3.5 million to Parkland College District 505 to construct a new dental clinic and training facility. This will expand charity care services for hundreds of patients each year in the community and enable Parkland to increase enrollment for its dental hygienist program by nearly 40 percent.

• Dental Surgery Clinic, Peoria, Illinois: $2 million to OSF HealthCare System to construct an outpatient dental clinic offering sedation and surgical services. Currently, Central Illinois lacks a dental sedation clinic, meaning most patients, especially Medicaid-enrolled, must travel to Chicago or Metro East for intensive dental surgery. OSF will construct four operatories to provide pediatric and specialty services for underserved populations.

• Housing Support for Hospital Programs, Chicago, Illinois: $1.3 million to Center for Housing and Health to provide supportive housing to participants of the hospital-based violence recovery programs operated by University of Chicago and Cook County's Stroger Hospital. Effective trauma and violence recovery work to support victims and prevent retaliations often requires rapid housing relocation. The Flexible Housing Pool provides housing assistance and case management services to individuals experiencing homelessness who excessively use hospital emergency departments, helping to reduce costs and improve health outcomes.

• ICU Equipment, St. Clair County, Illinois: $1.25 million to Memorial Hospital Belleville to purchase ICU equipment including lifts, ventilators, and nurse monitoring technology.

• Mentoring Programs, Chicago, Illinois: $500,000 to Youth Guidance to expand mentoring programs to five Chicago public schools, serving up to 275 additional youth, in addition to the 9,000 students they already serve in Cook County.

• New Clinical Doctorate Programs, Adams County, Illinois: $1.32 million to Quincy University to purchase equipment and cover personnel expenses for two doctorate degree programs. These programs in occupational therapy and physical therapy will help meet current and future regional needs. Current and future university operating budgets include and will include funding for the occupational therapy and physical therapy graduate degree programs.

• Nursing and Health Sciences Program, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois: $1 million to Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) to improve IWU's nursing and health sciences program, including improving classroom technology and interactive space.

• Oral Health Expansion, Cook County, Illinois: $700,000 to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to expand a clinic to offer dental services to low-income and pediatric patients.

• Oral Health Initiative, Chicago, Illinois: $268,000 to McDermott Center (Haymarket Center) purchase dental equipment and supplies. By adding dental screenings and cleanings, dental extractions, and other oral hygiene services, Haymarket will enhance its ability to provide all relevant health services to its clients.

• Pediatric Dental Expansion, Rock Island County, Illinois: $328,000 to Community Health Care, Inc. to furnish clinics with new dental equipment to expand services to pediatric patients.

• Trauma & Violence Recovery Center, Chicago, Illinois: $1.5 million to Sinai Health System to establish a trauma recovery center for victims of violence. Despite being a major safety net hospital that treats a high volume of gunshot victims, Sinai relies on external community partners for its violence recovery programming. Sinai will launch its internal program, serving more than 2,000 patients annually, to integrate clinical and community services through its extensive investment in Community Health Workers.

• Violence Recovery & Intervention Program, Chicago, Illinois: $1 million to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago to support the expansion of the new hospital-based violence recovery program, serving pediatric victims of violence with trauma-informed mental health and recovery services. Studies show these interventions help break the cycle of violence and high re-injury rate by addressing the emotional, psychological, and social harms from the injury.

• Workforce Development Program Expansion, Chicago, Illinois: $750,000 to ASI, Inc. to expand services by supporting additional personnel, training certifications, equipment, supportive services, and education services.

Transportation, Housing, And Urban Development

• 91st Street Infrastructure Improvement Project, DuPage County, Illinois: $750,000 to DuPage County make improvements to enhance pedestrian safety, to include sidewalk and lighting work, in the unincorporated area of DuPage County near Willowbrook.

• Capital Improvements, Chicago, Illinois: $500,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago to make capital improvements at the Bartlett J. McCartin Boys & Girls Club in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago.

• Construction of the National Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, Chicago, Illinois: $2.5 million to Illinois Institute of Technology to fund construction of a facility to serve as the National Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (NIAM). The NIAM on IIT's Bronzeville Campus will train more than 4,000 students in advanced manufacturing fields through in-person instruction and online curricula.

• Economic Hub Project, Carbondale, Illinois: $693,000 to Carbondale Community Arts, Inc. to make facility improvements for an economic hub.

• Equipment Upgrades, Chicago, Illinois: $722,000 to Navy Pier Inc. to upgrade the Pier's surveillance apparatus to ensure the safety of the Pier's guests and businesses.

• Facilities Improvements and Technology Upgrades, Carbondale, Illinois: $500,000 to Southern Illinois University's (SIU) Center for Teaching Excellence to revitalize learning spaces at the SIU campus and community colleges throughout Southern Illinois.

• Facility Improvements, Springfield, Illinois: $450,000 to the Lincoln Presidential Foundation for facility improvements at the Visitor Center at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site.

• Fire Truck, North Chicago, Illinois: $861,000 to the City of North Chicago to purchase a new fire truck, as the City's current fire truck has exceeded its useful life by nearly 10 years.

• Food Security Project, Hamilton, Illinois: $2.5 million to the City of Hamilton to establish a rural health village, in partnership with Memorial Hospital, to address food insecurities in the region by offering meal subscription/prescription programming, home-delivered meals, and more.

• Homelessness Prevention Project for the City of Aurora, Illinois: $1 million to the City of Aurora for renovation and expansion of a homeless shelter.

• Land Remediation, Will County, Illinois: $3 million to the State of Illinois, in coordination with the State of Michigan, to remediate 3.6 acres of land on the bank of the channel of the Des Plaines River needed for construction of the Brandon Road Lock and Dam Interbasin Project.

• Metra's O'Hare Express Infrastructure Study: $1.5 million to the Commuter Rail Division of the RTA to conduct a study on express train service between Chicago O'Hare International Airport and downtown Chicago.

• Station Improvements, Macomb, Illinois: $134,000 to the Illinois Department of Transportation to make improvements to Macomb's Amtrak Station, including HVAC upgrades, electrical work, and painting.

• Supportive Housing Development, Arlington Heights, Illinois: $750,000 to Full Circle Communities for construction of a housing development to support veterans and persons with disabilities.

• Track Reconstruction Design, Chicago, Illinois: $2 million to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to fund design of track reconstruction of CTA's Blue Line Forest Park Branch from Western Avenue to Lathrop Avenue, a roughly 6.5-mile section of the line. This reconstruction is needed in order to improve safety and on-time performance of the Forest Park Branch.

• Trail Extension, Normal, Illinois: $1.9 million to the Town of Normal to fund engineering and construction of a trail connection. This will close a gap in pedestrian and bicycle accommodations between the existing Constitution Trail network and major employers located in west Normal and promote safe multimodal travel by separating pedestrians and cyclists from motor vehicles.

• Transit Improvements for Vermilion County, Williamson County, and Jackson County, Illinois: $3.711 million to the Illinois Department of Transportation to fulfill ongoing transit needs, including vehicle and equipment purchases, maintenance, and other improvements for transit agencies serving Carbondale, Marion, and Danville.

• Transportation Center Pedestrian Access Improvements, Normal, Illinois: $1.6 million to Connect Transit to improve pedestrian access to the City of Bloomington's Downtown Transportation Center.

• Workforce Accelerator Program, Chicago, Illinois: $1 million to the North Lawndale Employment Network to transform a vacant lot across the street from its workforce development campus to offer an agricultural and environmental workforce accelerator program.

Financial Services and General Government

• Digitization Initiative, Eureka, Illinois: $200,000 to be used by Eureka College to digitize the College's archives that chronicle the history of Eureka College-the first Illinois institution of higher education to admit men and women equally-and its role in educating Ronald Reagan, a future U.S. president. This initiative will make these records more readily accessible to the public while safely preserving the original materials.

• Digitization Initiative, Galena, Illinois: $300,000 to be used by the Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society to digitize records and artifacts chronicling the history of Galena between 1820-1870, allowing it to better showcase and make accessible records, papers, and photographs that chronicle Galena's unique place in American military and political history. This effort is being undertaken in conjunction with the construction of a new Galena and U.S. Grant Museum.

• Entrepreneur and Business Center Initiative, Joliet, Illinois: $800,000 in funding to allow Joliet Junior College to provide training and advising to entrepreneurs with a focus on women, minorities, and veteran-owned small businesses. This will allow the College to expand current efforts to support small business owners by adding additional business advisors for one-on-one consultations, as well as offer workshops and trainings to students and the public.

• Entrepreneurship Center, Chicago, Illinois: $513,000 in funding to allow the Chicago Urban League to provide training and support to entrepreneurs and small businesses at a 15,000 square foot facility in Chatham, including technology management, procurement, personnel management, and youth entrepreneurship training.

• Small Business Development Initiative, Quincy, Illinois: $400,000 in funding to allow John Wood Community College to develop and implement a small business development initiative with a focus on AI to bolster small business creation in the Quincy region by providing AI training workshops, seminars, consulting services, networking events and industry forums.

• Small Business Educational Initiative, Rockford, Illinois: $800,000 in funding to allow Rock Valley College to provide essential training and support to small businesses and entrepreneurs through the Rock Valley College Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The SBDC will work with the City of Rockford to focus on educational classes and one-on-one training to assist business owners in gaining access to capital, buying/selling businesses, and deal structuring.

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

• National Institutes of Health (NIH): $48.7 billion to support biomedical research, which rejects the President's budget proposal to cut $18 billion to NIH. The bill also prohibits the Trump Administration's proposals to: (1) cap indirect cost rates at 15 percent; and (2) reduce the number of grants awarded by requiring NIH to fund all multi-year grants in one lump sum. It includes targeted increases of $128 million for cancer research and $100 million for Alzheimer's research, and a $15 million increase for the expansion of clinical trial access for ALS patients.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): $9.2 billion for disease prevention and health promotion, which rejects the President's proposal to cut $4 billion or 50 percent to CDC funding.

• Community Violence & Trauma: The bill provides:

• Congenital Heart: $9.25 million for CDC's research, data collection, and awareness-building activities for congenital heart disease.

• Health and Dental Workforce: The bill provides:

• CDC's Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs: $246.5 million to support tobacco use prevention and cessation programs through the CDC's Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion program.

• Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME): $395 million for children's hospitals to train and provide the next generation of pediatric doctors.

• CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program: $51 million to protect children from lead exposure by funding programs that support surveillance and technical capacity, provide lead poisoning prevention training to public health professionals, and support childhood blood lead surveillance systems, among other items.

• Title X Family Planning: $286.5 million for the Title X family planning program, which provides comprehensive and confidential family planning services and preventive health services.

• Social Security Administration: $14.8 billion for SSA's administrative expenses.

• CDC's National Asthma Control Program: $33.5 million to track asthma prevalence, promote, asthma control and prevention, and build capacity in state and community health programs.

• HRSA's Organ Donation and Transplantation: $59 million for organ donation and transplantation activities.

• CDC's Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Program and Legionnaire's Prevention: $40 million to provide critical support to epidemiologists and laboratory scientists who are instrumental in addressing various food, water, and vector-borne outbreaks-such as exposure to Legionella bacteria, which can lead to Legionnaire's disease.

• Epilepsy: $11.5 million within the CDC to improve awareness and education, eliminate stigma, and better connect people with epilepsy to health and community services.

• Sec. 317 Immunization Program: $681.9 million for the national immunization program authorized under Section 317 of the Public Health Service Act at the CDC. This funding will support continued critical efforts to boost vaccination rates.

• Runaway and Homeless Youth Program: $146.2 million for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA) programs (e.g., Basic Center Program, Street Outreach Program). This funding will continue to support critical programs to address youth and young adult homelessness across the United States. The bill also includes report language to direct HHS to issue timely notices for RHYA funding opportunities and directs it to issue separate funding opportunities for the Street Outreach Program.

• Refugee and Entrant Assistance: Includes approximately $5.2 billion for benefits and services provided to refugees, asylees, special immigrant visa recipients, and unaccompanied children apprehended.

• Post-Release Services, Legal Services/Access to Counsel, and Child Advocates: Includes language directing Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to provide post-release services, access to counsel and child advocates, and in-person Know Your Rights presentations and legal screenings. The bill requires legal services to continue to be provided to unaccompanied children absent exigent circumstances.
• Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program: $4.045 billion to help low-income households and seniors with their energy bills. The bill also includes report language urging HHS to fill vacancies that may impact the distribution of LIHEAP funding.

Department of Education (ED)

• Dismantling ED: Clarifies there is no authority to transfer fundamental responsibilities of ED to other federal agencies. The report requires ED and other agencies that have signed Interagency Agreements to provide biweekly briefings on implementation of the transfer of ED programs to other federal agencies.

• Open Textbooks: $7 million for Open Textbook Pilot program, which Durbin created, and Durbin's report language that directs ED to disaggregate grantee data on courses that are subject to fees from data on courses that use free open textbooks.

• Pell Grants: Maintains the maximum Pell award at $7,395 for the 2026-27 school year.

• Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA): $2.06 billion for FSA to oversee the federal student loan program, higher education accountably enforcement, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and the Repayment Assistant Plan.

• Impact Aid: $1.6 billion for Impact Aid to provide critical funding for local educational agencies that are unable to benefit from a state and local tax base due to the presence of federal property in their district.

• Early Education Programs: $12.4 billion for Head Start: $8.8 billion for Child Care and Development Block Grant; $540 million for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Grants for Infants and Families; $420 million for IDEA Preschool Grants; and $315 million for Pre-School Development Grants.

• Education for Low-Income Students: $18.4 billion to provide financial assistance to school districts with high rates of low-income students and students at risk of not meeting academic achievement requirements.

• 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC): $1.3 billion for 21st CCLC to support afterschool and summer learning opportunities to help students in high-need schools.

• Migrant Education Program: $375.6 million for the Migrant Education Program to assist states in helping ensure all migrant students receive a high-quality education.

• Full-Service Community Schools: $150 million for Full-Service Community Schools to provide comprehensive academic, social, and health services for students, students' family members, and community members.

• Strengthening Predominately Black Institutions (PBI): $22.7 million for the Strengthening PBIs program to help expand capacity at schools like Chicago State University to serve low- and middle-income students, especially Black students.

• Federal Work Study: $1.23 billion for Federal Work Study, which provides grants to institutions of higher education to help students meet the costs of postsecondary education through part-time employment.

• International Education and Foreign Language Studies (Domestic and Overseas Programs): $80.6 million for key programs that encourage U.S. students to learn foreign languages and to have international cultural and educational experiences.

• Teacher School Leader Incentive Program: $60 million to support teachers and school leaders in high-need schools to enhance student academic performance and narrow achievement gaps between high and low-performing students.

Department of Labor (DOL)

• Workforce Training for Employees Dislocated by Automation: Includes Durbin's report language affirming the Appropriation Committee's support for funding for demonstration and pilot programs relating to the training needs of workers who are or are likely to be dislocated due to automation.

• Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO): $110 million for the REO program, to provide grants to nonprofit organizations that offer essential employment services and workforce preparation for formerly incarcerated adults and youth.

• Apprenticeship Grants: $285 million in Apprenticeship Grants, to support registered apprenticeship activities. Includes Durbin's report language encouraging the Department of Labor to fund apprenticeship opportunities in local communities that have high rates of unemployment and high rates of community violence.

• Job Corps: $1.76 billion for Job Corps to connect disadvantaged youth to education and job training pathways.

• Wage and Hour Division: $260 million for Wage and Hour Division to support the Division's work to recover wages workers are owed and combat exploitative child labor.

• YouthBuild: $105 million for the YouthBuild program, to help connect disconnected youth with work readiness and industry-driven credential training opportunities.

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA )Title I Programs: $875.65 million for Adult Employment and Training Activities; $948.13 million for Youth Training; and $1.1 billion for Dislocated Workers Employment and Training Activities. The programs support job training programs, including state formula grants.

• Opportunity Youth: Includes Durbin's report language encouraging DOL to use WIOA funds for technical assistance and demonstration projects that support programs that allow opportunity youth who are out-of-school, have limited work experience, and live in communities of high violence and unemployment rates to participate in the workforce, including programs that provide youth with mentoring services.

• Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC): Includes Durbin's report language setting aside $2.5 million to continue efforts to reduce the processing backlog for the WOTC program.

• Unemployment Insurance State Administration Grants: $2.75 billion to help states implement unemployment compensation programs and assist states in modernization of technology, document sharing, and enhanced customer service.

Defense

• Defense Medical Research: Following dramatic cuts to defense medical research in the FY25 continuing resolution (CR), Durbin secured strong funding at a $2.7 billion topline and restored $1.27 billion for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.

• Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA): $3.7 billion for DSCA. Within this funding, Durbin secured:
  • $200 million for his Baltic Security Initiative;
  • $400 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the Pentagon to place contracts for equipment to send to Kyiv; and
  • Report language reaffirming Congress' ironclad support for NATO and its 32 member states, and its territorial integrity.

• USO: $24 million to support USO's programs, entertainment, and services at more than 250 locations across the U.S. and around the world, including seven locations in Illinois, and eight aircraft carriers.

• Impact Aid: $70 million for DoD's Impact Aid program, which provides financial assistance to school districts across the country to compensate for the lost local tax base due to nearby federal property.

• Pay Raise for Military Personnel: 1 percent pay raise for military personnel.

• Rock Island Arsenal:
  • $100 million for the Arsenal Sustainment Initiative to continue to stabilize labor rates at all three arsenals;
  • $80.5 million to continue manufacturing of the Shop Equipment Contact Maintenance Vehicles.
  • $5 million for the Additive and Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, which now houses the jointless hull printer, the latest 3D printer in the world;
  • Army Organic Industrial Base report language to prevent layoffs without advanced warning and stabilize labor rates at the Arsenals, particularly critical as the Army pursues its ambitious ATI proposals; and
  • Bill language prohibiting the closure of the Rock Island Arsenal Museum, which was facing threats under an Army plan to overhaul its museums enterprise.

• Scott Air Force Base:
  • Retains Durbin's bill language prohibiting a divestment of any C-40 aircraft from the current Air Force fleet.

• Naval Station Great Lakes:
  • $10 million for the Navy's plan to demolish, remediate, and redevelop the condemned military housing community Halsey Village; and
  • $165 million for the Joint DoD-VA Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago.

Transportation and Housing and Urban Development

Department of Transportation: Includes $28.5 billion in total funding

• Capital Investment Grants (CIG): $1.7 billion for grants to fund the extension and improvements of existing transit systems, which includes $350 million for the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line Extension Project.

• Amtrak: $2.43 billion in nationwide funding to support Amtrak operations, with $1.58 billion for the National Network.

• BUILD (formerly RAISE) Grants: $145 million to fund innovative transportation projects that will create jobs and have a significant impact on the nation, a region, or a metropolitan area.

• Passenger Rail Grant Programs: The two rail grant programs were reauthorized in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and address gaps in supporting and growing our nation's rail infrastructure:
  • Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Grants: $137.4 million for the CRISI program.
  • Federal-State Partnerships for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant (FSP) Program: $65 million for FSP grants for capital improvement projects that expand or establish intercity passenger rail service.

• Midwest Rail Commission Study: Includes Durbin's report language directing the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the establishment of a federally authorized commission for the purposes of developing a long-term delivery strategy for Midwest rail.

• FRA Rail Research & Development Center of Excellence (COE): Supports the Federal Railroad Association's (FRA) intent to use no less than $2.5 million of its and development funding for the FRA COE, which Durbin established in IIJA and secured funding for in FY22, FY23, and FY24. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was competitively selected to host the COE.

• Blocked Crossings Causes & Solutions Identification: Includes Durbin's report language directing the FRA to include in its annual report potential solutions and best practices to improve safety, mobility, and emergency response capabilities at highway-rail crossings.

• Emergency Response Blocked Crossing Reports: Includes Durbin's report language urging the FRA to require states receiving track inspection funding to require first responders to report verified blocked crossing incidents to the FRA's blocked crossings portal, which Durbin established through previous appropriations legislation. It also directs the FRA to continue working with stakeholders to identify root causes of blocked crossings and identify solutions.

• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): $22.6 billion for the FAA. This includes $13.7 billion for FAA operations and $4 billion for facilities and equipment. This funding will allow the FAA to hire 2,500 additional air traffic controllers; improve air traffic control facilities, equipment, and systems; improve the aircraft certification process; improve hazardous materials transport oversight, and more.

• Airport Improvement Program: $4.5 billion for airport improvement grants for capital improvements at the nation's airports, including investments that emphasize capacity development, safety improvements, and security needs.

• Digital Alert Technologies: Includes Durbin's report language urging National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to deploy digital alert technologies, with local law enforcement, that can provide up-to-date information about dynamic road conditions to drivers.

• NHTSA Rulemakings: Includes language directing NHTSA to continue to provide quarterly briefings on the status of all major rulemakings to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. This was a response to Durbin's request regarding the finalization of the automatic emergency braking (AEB) rule. In 2024, DOT finalized a rule requiring AEB on all new light vehicles by 2029 as required by Durbin's Protecting Roadside First Responders Act, which was enacted with IIJA. However, the Trump Administration delayed the implementation of this rule.

• Automated Track Inspections: Includes no less than $21.6 million to support the FRA's fleet of advanced inspection vehicles that accompany its field inspectors to validate the railroads' inspection programs and advance research priorities, with a special emphasis on routes transporting passengers and hazardous materials.

Department of Housing and Urban Development: Includes $84.3 billion for total funding

• HEAL Initiative Pilot Program: Includes $5 million to support efforts between HUD and HHS to provide direct technical assistance to communities leveraging programs like Medicaid to cover and provide housing-related supportive services and behavioral health care. The bill includes Durbin's report language acknowledging that several studies have demonstrated that interventions based on social determinants of health can help support housing permanency.

• Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes: $295 million to provide funding to state and local governments to develop cost-effective ways to reduce lead paint hazards.

• Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA): $529 million to help cities and states address the housing crisis facing people living with HIV/AIDS.

• Homeless Assistance Grants: $4.4 billion to provide funding to state and local governments for emergency shelters, rapid re-housing, permanent supportive housing, and other crisis response programs.

• Housing Counseling: $58 million to enable housing counseling organizations to provide foreclosure prevention counseling, mortgage counseling before and after purchase, rental counseling, homelessness prevention counseling, and fair housing education.

• Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO): $86 million to provide resources to nonprofit fair housing organizations that tackle discrimination and predatory lending and ensure that our nation's fair housing laws are enforced.

• Community Development Block Grant (CDBG): $3.3 billion to provide states and localities with resources for low-income communities, including housing rehabilitation, supportive services, public improvements, and economic development.

• Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME): $1.25 billion to provide state and local governments the funding necessary to provide affordable housing in low-income communities.

• Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds: $3.2 billion for Capital Funds and $4.68 billion for Operating Funds, including $30 million for emergency capital needs; $10 million for safety and security measures, with report language supporting safety and security improvements to protect tenants; and $25 million for lead remediation.

• Section 8 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance: $38.4 billion, which includes $600.6 million for Tenant Protection Vouchers; $15 million to expand the HUD-VASH program; and $30 million in incremental vouchers for youth aging out of/involved with the foster care system.

• Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) and Rural Capacity Building Program (RCB): $12 million for SHOP and $5 million for RCB. Both programs support affordable housing in rural communities.

• Section 4 Capacity Building Program: $46 million for the program. This program allows HUD to partner with national nonprofit community development organizations to provide education, training, and financial support to local community development corporations (CDCs) across the country.

• Choice Neighborhoods Program: $25 million to provide funding for the transformation, rehabilitation, and replacement of distressed public and HUD-assisted housing.

• Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program: $156.4 million to provide funding for an asset-building program to serve more households, both within already-established Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher FSS Programs.

• Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks): $158 million to create opportunities for Americans to live in affordable and safe homes by providing community development organizations in all fifty states with financial resources and counseling services.

Financial Services and General Government

U.S. Department of Treasury

• Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund: $324 million to promote access to capital and local economic growth in low-income urban and rural communities across the nation.
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN): $185.2 million to safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering.

• Internal Revenue Service (IRS): $11.2 billion for IRS and includes Durbin's report language urging IRS Criminal Investigation to prioritize investigations of money laundering, violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, and criminal violations of the tax code.

• Sanctions and Levinson Act (on American Hostages): Includes Durbin's report language encouraging sanctions enforcement against countries such as China, North Korea, and Belarus. The bill also includes requested language directing full enactment of the Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage Taking Accountability Act to help with Americans taken hostage abroad.

U.S. Judiciary

• Court Security: $892 million for court security, including $20 million for the U.S. Marshals Service to provide security for federal judges.

• Federal Defender Services: $1.766 billion to ensure that the government is meeting its constitutional obligation to provide counsel to indigent defendants. In August, Durbin led all U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats in a letter to appropriators outlining the serious impacts of insufficient and inconsistent funding for Defender Services and urging robust funding for FY26.

• Federal Courts and Other Judicial Services: $6.1 billion to provide for the necessary expenses of the courts, including salaries and expenses for Probation and Pretrial Services.

• United States Sentencing Commission: $22.68 million to promote transparency and proportionality in sentencing through the establishment and amendment of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, as well as through collection, analysis, and distribution of federal sentencing data.

Independent Agencies

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): $365 million to foster open, transparent, competitive, and financially sound markets; ensure market integrity; and protect market participants from fraud, exploitation, and abusive practices.

• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): $150.9 million to protect consumers from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from consumer products.

• Election Assistance Commission (EAC): $23.86 million to improve election accessibility and advance election security efforts. The bill also provides the EAC with $45 million for election security grant to state to improve the administration of elections for federal office.

• Federal Election Commission: $80.857 million to ensure the administration and enforcement of federal campaign finance laws.

• Federal Communications Commission: $416 million to further initiatives in promoting broadband access and deployment.

• General Services Administration (GSA): Includes Durbin's report language requiring GSA to provide advance notice and consultation before any actions might be taken with respect to the potential disposal or development, as opposed to the demolition, of the federally owned buildings adjacent to the Dirksen Courthouse.

• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): $2.15 billion for oversight of financial markets and market participants, as well as enforcement of securities laws and facilitation of capital formation.

• Small Business Administration: $1.1 billion to ensure SBA continues the vital role it plays in providing loan and financing opportunities to help create and sustain American small businesses, including $3 million for the direct microloan and $41 million for microloan technical assistance to help small businesses access credit; $20 million for the State Trade Expansion Program to provide matching federal funds to states and territories to carry out export promotion efforts for small businesses; and $250 million to help small businesses recover from disasters.

• United States Postal Service: $274 million for the Postal Inspector General (IG) to promote the efficiency, accountability, and integrity of the Postal Service. Includes bill language prohibiting funding for the closing or consolidation of small and rural post offices and includes report language regarding the consolidation of postal offices, including small and rural postal offices; and report language addressing continued mail theft and violent crimes targeting postal employees.

State and Foreign Operations

• Maintains strong funding and enhanced oversight for U.S. foreign assistance programs that had been recklessly gutted by President Trump, reasserting the role of Congress and making critical investments that advance our national interests and promote our values. These include programs such as:

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