On Thursday, Congress could take a step toward restoring a now old-fashioned way of funding the government while eliminating a spending policy from President Joe Biden’s administration.

The House will consider its final batch of appropriations bills for fiscal year 2026 to fund several federal agencies. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday said the spending process has been restored to a “committee-led, member-driven approach.”

“It will spend less than another continuing resolution and it will continue to advance our ‘America First’ agenda,” Johnson said of the package. “Once we pass the final batch this week, Republicans will have finally replaced the last of any Biden-era spending levels with Trump-era spending levels.”

Johnson has promised to restore the practice of passing individual spending bills each year. This approach, known as “regular order,” is an alternative to the chamber’s more recent habit of funding the government through continuing resolutions, which simply extend previous funding, or omnibus bills, which jam together many different spending bills for one........

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