House Republicans are trying to rev up their government funding work for fiscal year 2026 after devoting weeks of energy to pushing through President Trump’s megabill, but the timeline is slipping ahead of their coming August recess.

With about 20 legislative days on the House calendar ahead of a Sept. 30 government shutdown deadline, top GOP negotiators now expect it will take them beyond August to send all 12 funding bills out of committee.

“Our schedule will take us into early September, which is something we wanted to try and avoid, but I think that’s where we’re at,” House Appropriations Committee Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told reporters on Tuesday.

The hold up comes as both chambers are falling behind in hashing out their full-year government bills, making a stopgap funding bill of some kind practically unavoidable to keep the lights on past September.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Tuesday expressed confidence to reporters that House Republicans would be able to “have well over 60 percent of all government funding” sent to the Senate for consideration before lawmakers “break for August.”

“So no change to the recess schedule right now. We’re holding the calendar,” he said, as the House prepares to take up its annual defense funding bill, which calls for more than $830 billion in discretionary funding for fiscal 2026.

But even if the bill passes, the House is staring down a tall........

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