Historic Government Shutdown Comes to an End: Impacts for Tile Roofing Industry

Tile Roofing Industry Alliance Lobbyist, Craig Brightup, has provided the latest government relations update and activities on the following from November 2025:

Government Shutdown Ends
On Nov. 12, President Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with six Democrats joining all but two Republicans in the House and eight Democrats joining all but one Republican in the Senate for final passage.  The legislation brokered by Senate Republicans extends federal funding through Jan. 30 for most programs and through Sept. 30 (the end of FY25) for three appropriations bills: Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies; Military Construction and VA; and Legislative Branch.  Despite Senate Democrats having withheld the needed votes for a House-passed Continuing Resolution to keep the government open, Democrats failed to get the extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies they were demanding nor the $1.5 trillion additional spending they sought during their 43-day shutdown holdout. 
 
However, under the terms of the legislation negotiated in the Senate, Democrats will get a vote in mid-December on a bill to extend the ACA subsidies.  Speaker Mike Johnson was not part of the negotiations and has refused to promise a similar vote in the House though a bill seems likely that could contain modified subsidies coupled with Republican health care priorities.  Other parts of the Senate-negotiated legislation are a reversal of federal employee layoffs initiated by the Trump Administration during the shutdown and a moratorium on such reductions in force until Jan. 30.  In addition, furloughed federal employees returning to work will get back pay.


DOL Staffing
With the government shutdown over, a series of agency leaders were sworn in at the Dept. of Labor (DOL) nearly a month after being confirmed by the Senate.  The list includes Dave Keeling for OSHA, Jonathan Berry for Solicitor, and Andrew Rogers for the Wage and Hour Division.
 
U.S. Chamber’s Labor Relations Committee
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Relations Committee met Nov. 6-7 with the OSHA, NLRA, Immigration, and EEOC subcommittees meeting Nov. 6 and the full committee on Nov. 7.  OSHA’s proposed Heat Standard was the main topic during the OSHA subcommittee with a focus on why trying to replicate the Silica Rule’s Table 1 engineering controls in the Heat Standard is a bad idea.  The full committee included a session with the director of the National Chamber Litigation Center who explained the fate of President Trump’s IEEPA tariffs in the Supreme Court depends on three justices – Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett – because the other six justices appear evenly split between supporting and opposing the tariffs.
 
IRS Inflation Adjustments for 2026
The attached IRS Bulletin for 2026 inflation adjustments includes the adjustments for Sec.179 (.24 on page 703) which will be $2,560,000 for the expensing cap and $4,090,000 for the phase-out’s starting point.  Sec. 179 applies to commercial roofing, which was added in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.



For more information on the TRIA Alliance and our Government Relations efforts, please visit our website at www.tileroofing.org.