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User: Can you break down how much money is going to distract, congress , justices and the supreme court in H.R.5371 - Contin…

Can you break down how much money is going to distract, congress , justices and the supreme court in # H.R.5371 - Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026

Assistant: Here’s a breakdown of what the H.R.

Here’s a breakdown of what the H.R. 5371 — Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 (119th Congress) includes, as relevant to your question about “how much money is going to … Congress, justices and the Supreme Court” (i.e., the legislative branch / branch-security / Judiciary side). Congress.gov

Key figures

• The bill provides a full-year appropriation for the legislative branch (i.e., Congress and related agencies) under one of its divisions. According to analyses: the legislative branch portion provides about $7.3 billion in discretionary funding. Holland & Knight - Within that $7.3 billion figure: about $2.1 billion for House operations, and about $1.5 billion for Senate operations. Holland & Knight
• The bill also explicitly includes “additional funding for security for Members of Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and executive-branch officials.” Congress.gov - One source (Wikipedia summary) notes: “The full-year bills include $203.5 million to fund security for members of Congress and $852 million for U.S. Capitol Police.” Wikipedia

What this means

• So, if you interpret your question “how much money is going to distract, congress , justices and the supreme court” to mean: how much funding is directed to the legislative branch (Congress) and related security (including Supreme Court justices), the best available number is the $7.3 billion for the Legislative Branch appropriation.
• The separate security allocation (≈ $203.5 million for members of Congress + $852 million for U.S. Capitol Police) appears in publicly summarized detail though not always broken out in every official source.
• The bill does not appear (in the sources I found) to provide a standalone appropriation specifically labelled for the Supreme Court justices (as a separate number) beyond the security funding general language.

Limitations / caveats

• The $7.3 billion figure is for “discretionary funding for the legislative branch” broadly — it covers Congress (House + Senate) and legislative branch agencies, not only Congress. So if you’re trying to isolate just Congress (vs. all legislative branch agencies), the figure will be smaller (e.g., $2.1 billion House + $1.5 billion Senate = $3.6 billion, but that leaves ~$3.7 billion for other legislative branch agencies).
• The “security for Members of Congress and Supreme Court Justices” number appears in summary form (e.g., $203.5 million for member security) but I did not locate a publicly cited breakdown that clearly isolates the portion for Supreme Court Justices alone.
• The text of the bill is lengthy, and detailed line-item breakdowns may require digging into the specific appropriations tables (CBO estimate, legislative text) which may supply more granular numbers. The CBO cost estimate for this bill exists. Congressional Budget Office

If you like, I can look up the detailed table for the legislative branch appropriation in H.R. 5371 (including security for justices) to pull out exact line-items for the Supreme Court justices and related security. Would you like that?