Which nine FY2026 appropriations bills are specifically covered by the Jan. 30 continuing resolution and what programs do they fund?

1. What the CR explicitly does and how it treats nine bills

The CR restores government operations and provides FY2026 appropriations for most agencies from November 12, 2025 through January 30, 2026 (or until the relevant appropriations act becomes law), charging expenditures to the eventual full‑year accounts when those bills are enacted ^{[4] [2]}. Congress.gov and the Appropriations Committees state that the continuing appropriations cover the "remaining nine appropriations bills" through 01/30/2026, meaning those nine bills remain on CR status rather than being enacted as standalone full‑year laws at that time ^{[1] [4]}.

2. Which three bills were enacted full‑year (and thus not part of the nine)

Congress enacted three full‑year FY2026 bills in November 2025 covering Agriculture (including SNAP and WIC programs), Military Construction & Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Legislative Branch; press releases and committee summaries link those full‑year measures to support for SNAP, WIC, the VA, and other agriculture and rural programs ^{[5] [6] [3]}. Those enacted bills are therefore not among the nine that the Jan. 30 CR continues.

3. The nine appropriations bills the CR covers — the standard list and what they fund

The cited materials repeatedly state nine of the 12 bills remain on continuing funding but do not publish a one‑line list; using the conventional twelve‑bill framework and excluding the three enacted bills yields the nine likely covered by the CR: Defense; Homeland Security; Energy and Water Development; Interior and Environment; Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS); Financial Services and General Government (FSGG); Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor‑HHS‑Ed); Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (T‑HUD); and State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs — each of which funds major departmental obligations and grant programs that would otherwise face disruption ^{[1] [4]}. Sources indicate these categories include, for example, Defense appropriations and related procurement decisions (noting disputes over toplines), Labor‑HHS‑Ed programs such as Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), and major agency accounts whose funding certainty affects contracts and grants ^{[7] [8] [9]}.

4. Examples of the programs at stake under the CR

Reporting and advocacy groups single out concrete programs whose FY2026 funding depends on whether those nine bills are finalized: child care and early learning programs including CCDBG and Head Start under Labor‑HHS‑Ed; Department of Defense procurements and topline disputes that affect DOD contracting; and numerous civilian agency programs that face delays in awards or modifications if left under CR rules ^{[8] [7] [9]}. The CR preserves operations in the near term but also freezes decision‑making and can delay new solicitations, as legal apportionment guidance and industry analyses warn ^{[10] [9]}.

5. Caveats, competing narratives, and what the sources do not say

Multiple sources (CRS, committee releases, think tanks) consistently state there are nine appropriations bills covered by the Jan. 30 CR, but none of the provided excerpts issues a single definitive list of those nine within the reporting set; therefore the conventional twelve‑bill mapping, minus the three enacted bills cited by the Appropriations Committees, is the defensible way to identify the nine covered ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Different outlets emphasize different stakes — child‑care advocates focus on Labor‑HHS‑Ed funding, defense interests on the defense topline — and each has implicit agendas: appropriators seeking regular order push full‑year bills, while advocacy groups stress programmatic impacts ^{[8] [11] [12]}.