Congressional funding deadlines

This reading edition presents the supporting record, including dates, limits and open questions. It preserves the recorded findings; a source note is not a certification that every claim is settled.

Source

Open source

Edition

March 27, 2025

Table

Table 1, printed pages 10–11

Scope

FY1977–2025; historical series, not a current FY2026 status report

Definitions

Regular by october 1

Enacted on or before October 1, inclusive

Regular total

13 through FY2005; 11 in FY2006–2007; 12 thereafter

Continuing resolutions

Enacted CRs, including full-year CRs; not funding gaps or shutdowns

Exception

FY1977 had all regular bills enacted by October 1 but two CRs funded omitted activities.

Rows

Year	Regular total	Regular by october 1	Continuing resolutions	Interim crs	Interim duration days	Final interim expiration	Full year cr	Inclusive calendar days	Duration difference days
1977	13	13	2	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1978	13	9	3	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1979	13	5	1	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1980	13	3	2	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1981	13	1	3	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1982	13	1	4	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1983	13	1	2	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1984	13	4	2	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1985	13	4	5	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1986	13	0	5	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1987	13	0	6	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1988	13	0	5	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1989	13	13	0	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1990	13	1	3	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1991	13	0	5	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1992	13	3	4	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1993	13	1	1	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1994	13	2	3	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1995	13	13	0	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1996	13	0	13	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1997	13	13	0	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
1998	13	1	6	6	57	1997-11-26	No	57	0
1999	13	1	6	6	21	1998-10-21	No	21	0
2000	13	4	7	7	63	1999-12-02	No	63	0
2001	13	2	21	21	82	2000-12-21	No	82	0
2002	13	0	8	8	102	2002-01-10	No	102	0
2003	13	0	8	8	143	2003-02-20	No	143	0
2004	13	3	5	5	123	2004-01-31	No	123	0
2005	13	1	3	3	69	2004-12-08	No	69	0
2006	11	2	3	3	92	2005-12-31	No	92	0
2007	11	1	4	3	138	2007-02-15	Yes	138	0
2008	12	0	4	4	92	2007-12-31	No	92	0
2009	12	3	2	2	162	2009-03-11	No	162	0
2010	12	1	2	2	79	2009-12-18	No	79	0
2011	12	0	8	7	197	2011-04-15	Yes	197	0
2012	12	0	5	5	84	2011-12-23	No	84	0
2013	12	0	2	1	178	2013-03-26	Yes	177	1
2014	12	0	4	4	110	2014-01-18	No	110	0
2015	12	0	5	5	156	2015-03-06	No	157	-1
2016	12	0	3	3	83	2015-12-22	No	83	0
2017	12	1	3	3	216	2017-05-05	No	217	-1
2018	12	0	5	5	173	2018-03-23	No	174	-1
2019	12	5	3	3	138	2019-02-15	No	138	0
2020	12	0	2	2	81	2019-12-20	No	81	0
2021	12	0	5	5	88	2020-12-28	No	89	-1
2022	12	0	4	4	166	2022-03-15	No	166	0
2023	12	0	3	3	91	2022-12-30	No	91	0
2024	12	0	4	4	160	2024-03-08	No	160	0
2025	12	0	3	2	165	2025-03-14	Yes	165	0

Source file fingerprint

27ccb69bfa484015f95dd0da613e40ae4522c36d90a39853bf88d50678912ff3

Duration table

Table 2, printed pages 12–13; FY1998–2025 only

Duration method

Interim CR duration measured from October 1 through final interim expiry, including funding-gap intervals covered by later CRs. Expiry can follow enactment of regular appropriations. Not shutdown days, not all-program coverage, and excludes the remainder funded by full-year CRs in FY2007, FY2011, FY2013 and FY2025.

Duration reconciliation

Method

Inclusive calendar interval from October 1 to published final expiry; comparison only, source values not overwritten

Differing years

1. 2013
2. 2015
3. 2017
4. 2018
5. 2021

Status

All five discrepancies traced to the cited edition: FY2013 endpoint conflict and four appendix-row duration differences. Source arithmetic is documented; the publisher’s reasons for these differences are not established.

Fy2013 check

Table 2 expiry

2013-03-26

Appendix a expiry

2013-03-27

Statutory outer date

2013-03-27

Source

Open source

Provision

Section 106: earlier appropriation enactment can terminate funding before the outer date

Conclusion

178 days matches the March 27 outer date; the March 26 Table 2 endpoint gives 177 inclusive days. Preserve both rather than treating termination and outer expiry as interchangeable.

Appendix checks

1. Fiscal year

   2015

   Public law

   113-202

   Previous expiry

   2014-12-11

   Extension expiry

   2014-12-13

   Appendix duration days

   1

   Calendar days under table note

   2

   Appendix components

   1. 72
   2. 1
   3. 4
   4. 72
   5. 7

   Published annual sum

   156

   Annual calendar days

   157

2. Fiscal year

   2017

   Public law

   114-254

   Previous expiry

   2016-12-09

   Extension expiry

   2017-04-28

   Appendix duration days

   139

   Calendar days under table note

   140

   Appendix components

   1. 70
   2. 139
   3. 7

   Published annual sum

   216

   Annual calendar days

   217

3. Fiscal year

   2018

   Public law

   115-123

   Previous expiry

   2018-02-08

   Extension expiry

   2018-03-23

   Appendix duration days

   42

   Calendar days under table note

   43

   Appendix components

   1. 69
   2. 14
   3. 28
   4. 20
   5. 42

   Published annual sum

   173

   Annual calendar days

   174

4. Fiscal year

   2021

   Public law

   116-246

   Previous expiry

   2020-12-21

   Extension expiry

   2020-12-28

   Appendix duration days

   6

   Calendar days under table note

   7

   Appendix components

   1. 72
   2. 7
   3. 2
   4. 1
   5. 6

   Published annual sum

   88

   Annual calendar days

   89

Source locations

Table 2 and note a, printed pages 12–13; Appendix A, printed pages 25–26. March 27, 2025 edition.

Interpretation

The four annual totals reproduce sums of Appendix A duration cells. In each, one extension is one day shorter than the interval from the day after the preceding expiry through the new expiry, the stated Table 2 rule. This is a source-internal discrepancy, not evidence of an extra shutdown day. Do not silently revise the historical source or infer legal coverage from this arithmetic.

Duration exceptions

2004

Fifth CR retained the preceding January 31 expiry.

2014

Includes two limited-program CRs during a funding gap; regular appropriations enacted January 17, before final interim expiry January 18.