Short answer: Right now the government is running on a stopgap, H.R. 6500, that keeps agencies funded at last year's levels through Dec 11, 2026. Of the twelve FY2027 appropriations bills that make up the discretionary budget, the House has passed 3, the Senate has passed 0, and 0 are law. The live table of every bill and both chambers is the tracker, and the shutdown question is answered on the shutdown page.
What "the federal budget" means in this question
People asking for the status of the FY2027 federal budget usually want to know one thing: has Congress finished the spending bills, and if not, is the government funded. The President's budget request is a proposal Congress can ignore. The budget resolution is a framework that never becomes law. The twelve annual appropriations bills are the documents that actually spend the money, so their status is the status of the budget.
How to read the status
Each of the twelve bills has to clear a subcommittee, the full Appropriations Committee, and the floor in each chamber, then be reconciled between the House and Senate and signed. The tracker shows each bill at its exact step in both chambers, verified against the committees' own records and congress.gov, with the vote and date on every completed step.
When the bills are not done by October 1, Congress passes a continuing resolution, a stopgap that extends last year's funding for a set number of weeks. The stopgap's own position, and what it carves out, sits on the tracker under the stopgap.
What happens next
The dates that matter are the stopgap's expiration and the end of the fiscal year on September 30. If neither the twelve bills nor a new stopgap is law when funding runs out, the government shuts down. The shutdown page answers that question live and counts down to the deadline.
For the local project money inside the bills, the state by state map lists every earmark by state, member, and amount, each linked to its official disclosure table.
New to the fiscal year calendar? What is a fiscal year explains why FY2027 starts on October 1, 2026.