Last week’s sprint to approve a stopgap spending bill has revealed the waning influence Capitol Hill appropriators have on the government funding process in the age of a Trump executive branch with seemingly no qualms about upstaging the congressional appropriations committees.

Lawmakers on the House and Senate spending panels who were sidelined when President Donald Trump gave Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chair Elon Musk and White House budget director Russ Vought unprecedented authority over the federal purse told Politico they are not destined to become a relic of the past and fully intend to fight for their relevance.

Toward that end, Republicans are reportedly vowing to return to “regular order” by accomplishing something that hasn’t been done since the late 1990s — completing all 12 annual spending bills on time.

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