Community funding projects are roaring back for fiscal 2026 spending bills, after being stripped from a short-term stopgap spending deal earlier this year, as the House faces the difficult task of passing all 12 appropriations bills before the government shutdown looms in September.

The projects, also known as earmarks, have been a long-standing sticking point for conservatives. Nixing the earmarks in the continuing resolution, or CR, gave hard-right fiscal hawks a win in March, but now, lawmakers have requested billions of dollars for special projects across seven of the 12 bills.