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Government Publishing Office Seeks $135.4M for FY26; Advances XPub and GovInfo
Summary
GPO asked the subcommittee for $135.4 million for FY2026 to cover congressional publishing, the Federal Depository Library program, and technology upgrades; director Halpern reported progress on the XPub composition engine and growth in GovInfo usage.
Mr. Halpern told the House Appropriations subcommittee the Government Publishing Office requests $135,400,000 for fiscal year 2026, a 2.6% increase over FY2025, to cover congressional publishing, public information programs and technology modernization.
GPO said $83,000,000 of the request would fund congressional publishing (flat‑funded from prior years), $42,900,000 would support the Public Information Programs account including the Federal Depository Library Program (an increase of about $5,000,000 driven largely by labor costs), and $9,500,000 would be requested for the revolving fund to support technology upgrades. GPO also noted its inspector general’s $7,700,000 budget request will be funded as part of GAO’s agency overhead.
Halpern described progress on XPub, GPO’s next‑generation composition engine for bills, resolutions and amendments: the Senate is performing first‑phase user acceptance testing and the House began testing last month. GovInfo, GPO’s trusted digital repository, received more than 142,000,000 requests a month and added roughly 260,000 document packages last fiscal year, Halpern said.
GPO emphasized it operates largely as a business enterprise: appropriated funds represent roughly 9% of its total revenue, and the remainder comes from billings to other federal customers. Halpern said the agency closed FY2024 with net positive income and continues to invest in equipment, staff and campus improvements.
The subcommittee entered Halpern’s written testimony into the record and questioned him on pricing, revolving fund priorities and deployment timing for XPub; Halpern said testing is ongoing and a firm deployment date is not yet set.
