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↵↵"It's an example that the No. 1 issue today is affordability, and nobody has really walked through what it's going to mean for those 8 million people," Wyden said, referring to an early estimate of how
↵↵The wide-ranging law reduces health spending by about $1 trillion over a decade, primarily from changes and cutbacks to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges.
↵↵"We're focused on No. 1, getting this vote and waiting," she said. "We've been waiting. They said after the shutdown, they would come to us with serious proposals." ↵↵Sen.
"I'm hoping that we can find a bill that can get 60 votes that can fix the problem with these changes for Jan. 1, 2026."
But there is no sign of any bipartisan agreement on overall spending limits, a major impediment to moving a package that would well exceed $1 trillion and make up the bulk of the year's discretionary spending
↵↵For instance, at the start of the shutdown, six Head Start recipients with Oct. 1 start dates went without further federal funding — but that figure jumped to 140 on Monday, according to the National
growing recognition that the funding extension to Nov. 21, as the House proposed in September, would no longer provide enough time to complete appropriations bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
For example, a five-year, $5 million grant would usually result in $1 million per year. With forward-funding, the NIH would distribute that $5 million up front.
The Senate Appropriations Committee was mostly united behind the bill on Thursday, voting 26-1 to favorably report it.
The House bill uses a higher threshold of at least $1 million in Medicaid reimbursements in 2024.
Committee markups scheduled next week, President Donald Trump’s budget office is expected to deliver as soon as Friday supplemental information on agency budget requests for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.
Durbin, D-Ill., asked Kennedy if he knew the No. 1 cause of preventable death in America, a reference to tobacco, which has been at the top in the U.S. for decades.
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, grabs one last puff of his cigar as he prepares the enter the Capitol for the last votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
The White House made official Friday that President Donald Trump wants the first ever $1 trillion defense budget.
Mike Kehoe, a Republican, told Hawley any "significant" changes to the federal match rate could blow a $1 billion dollar hole in the state’s budget.Â
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 1.
Collins said that less than 1 percent of fentanyl was trafficked through Canada in fiscal 2024. U.S.
The solution, embedded in Article 1 of the Constitution, was to give Congress the power "to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over" the district housing the seat of the U.S. government
That is $6 billion more for defense than was appropriated in fiscal 2024, a growth rate of less than 1 percent and not enough to outrun inflation.
"I’d shut down the FBI Hoover building on Day 1 and [reopen it the] next day as a museum of the deep state," Patel said.