FY2027 Is Running on a Continuing Resolution Through December 11

Key takeaways

FY2027 is funded by a continuing resolution. Division A of Public Law 119-103, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, approved September 2, 2026, provides continuing appropriations from October 1, 2026, through December 11, 2026.
OMB Bulletin No. 27-01, dated September 28, 2026, automatically apportions that CR through December 11, 2026, and any extension of that period.
No regular FY2027 appropriations act was located in the official sources opened for this report. The White House’s Fiscal Year 2027 Topline fact sheet requests $1.5 trillion in total budgetary resources for 2027 defense, including $1.1 trillion in base discretionary budget authority for the Department of War and $350 billion in additional mandatory resources through reconciliation.
The House passed H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, on July 22, 2026, by 216–212 (Clerk of the House, Roll Call 278). That vote authorizes; it is not an appropriations law.
On June 24, 2026, the OMB Director transmitted a request for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding, including $67.1 billion for the Department of War. This report treats that document as a request, not as enacted funding.

Findings

Public Law 119-103 was approved September 2, 2026. Division A may be cited as the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027. It provides continuing appropriations for the period beginning October 1, 2026, and running through December 11, 2026. The official enrolled text also extends a series of authorizing and fee authorities to that same date or, in a few specified cases, to December 12, 2026. Legislative history printed with the law identifies the measure as H.R. 6500.

OMB Bulletin No. 27-01, “Apportionment of the Continuing Resolution(s) for Fiscal Year 2027,” dated September 28, 2026, confirms that Division A of P.L. 119-103 provides continuing appropriations from October 1, 2026, through December 11, 2026, and automatically apportions to each applicable Treasury account the pro-rata rate for operations through that date and any CR extension of that period. Full-year appropriations, if any, in Division A are handled under OMB Circular A-11 rather than this bulletin. The bulletin is the official apportionment document agencies use to obligate under the CR.

The Administration’s still-pending request is set out in the White House Fiscal Year 2027 Topline fact sheet, opened as an official PDF. It says the Budget builds on a $1 trillion overall Defense topline for 2026 and requests $1.5 trillion in total budgetary resources for 2027, described as a $445 billion, or 42 percent, increase from the 2026 total resource level. Of that amount, the Budget includes $1.1 trillion in base discretionary budget authority for the Department of War in 2027 and a request for $350 billion in additional mandatory resources through reconciliation. The same fact sheet states that nondefense spending is reduced by $73 billion, or 10 percent. Those figures are the President’s request, not enacted levels.

On the authorization track, the House passed H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, on July 22, 2026. The Clerk of the House roll-call record, Vote 278 of the 119th Congress, 2nd session, shows the bill passed 216–212, with 209 Republicans, 6 Democrats, and 1 Independent voting yea, and 7 Republicans and 205 Democrats voting nay. An NDAA authorizes programs and sets policy; it does not appropriate the $1.5 trillion request, and passage by the House alone does not enact the bill.

Separately, in a June 24, 2026 letter to the Speaker of the House, the OMB Director transmitted, on behalf of the President, a request for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding. The letter states that most of the request addresses Operation Epic Fury and other needs, and the attached estimate includes $67.1 billion for the Department of War (including $21 billion for munitions and $5.1 billion for cybersecurity and autonomy), $11.1 billion for agricultural assistance, and other items. Official sources opened for this report confirm the request. They do not confirm enactment.

As of November 10, 2026, the Clerk of the House’s official membership display for the sitting 119th Congress still lists a Republican majority (218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, 1 Independent, and 2 vacancies) and Republican floor leadership, including the Speaker. This report does not state a result for the November 2026 midterm elections, because no official canvass or certificate establishing control of the 120th Congress was located among the primary sources opened for this briefing.

What it means for contractors

Bid strategy

Through December 11, 2026, new awards and incremental funding are constrained by the CR’s rate for operations, not by the $1.5 trillion request. Bids that assume a full-year FY2027 appropriation, or that assume reconciliation mandatory funding already in hand, are ahead of the official funding documents. The House-passed NDAA may preview policy direction, but it is not spending authority. The $87.6 billion supplemental should be treated as a request until an enrolled public law exists.

Compliance cost

A CR typically holds accounts to prior-year rates, which can delay new starts and stretch existing work rather than immediately change clause requirements. The compliance burden in this window is operational: tracking continuing-resolution limitations, option exercises, and stop-work or slow-funding risk on incrementally funded efforts through December 11, and any short-term extension OMB would then apportion.

Execution

Program offices can obligate only what Bulletin 27-01 and the statute allow. Contractors performing on incrementally funded vehicles should reconcile funding documents against the December 11 end date and plan staffing and subcontract coverage for a lapse or a short extension, without treating either outcome as announced. After December 11, the next official act — another CR, a full-year bill, or a lapse — will have to come from Congress and appear as a public law or as a further OMB apportionment bulletin.

Watch next

December 11, 2026: end date of the continuing appropriations provided by Division A of P.L. 119-103, as apportioned by OMB Bulletin No. 27-01.

Sources

Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, Public Law 119-103, approved September 2, 2026. Official text: govinfo.gov, PLAW-119publ103.
Office of Management and Budget, Bulletin No. 27-01, “Apportionment of the Continuing Resolution(s) for Fiscal Year 2027,” September 28, 2026. whitehouse.gov (PDF).
Executive Office of the President, “Fiscal Year 2027 Topline” fact sheet, official PDF opened at whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/fiscal-year-2027-topline-fact-sheet.pdf.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Roll Call Vote 278, 119th Congress, 2nd session, H.R. 8800, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, On Passage, July 22, 2026, Passed 216–212. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll278.xml.
Office of Management and Budget, letter from the Director to the Speaker of the House transmitting a request for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding, June 24, 2026. whitehouse.gov (PDF).
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, official membership display as opened November 10, 2026 (119th Congress, 2nd session). clerk.house.gov.

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