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That $40 million decrease, a 2.5 percent cut, in a fiscal 2026 law (PL 119-74) would continue a "compounded reduction in operational funding," Cekada said in a written response to lawmakers.
↵↵More than the usual amount of arm-twisting was sometimes required for the year's significant legislation, including on votes setting up floor consideration of the fiscal 2026 defense authorization and
↵↵The testimony comes just over a month into the 2026 tax filing season, which has been marked by the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the IRS workforce despite all the new tax code changes from
Advocates of state preemption, including Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, fell short last year on attaching preemption to the GOP budget reconciliation law or the fiscal 2026 defense policy law
Counties, and National Conference of State Legislatures, sent a letter in January to House and Senate leaders urging Congress to exclude October and November 2025 payment error rates from the fiscal 2026
The funding was made available to spend through fiscal 2029, but the Pentagon said in a summary of its plans last month that it would work to "accelerate execution into FY 2026 if that can be done without
↵↵The appropriations bill is the only one of the 12 fiscal 2026 measures that has not become law.
↵↵The vast majority of the funding items in fiscal 2026 cost $15 million or less, according to the new report, which was shared exclusively with CQ Roll Call.
↵↵But Cekada also showed no support for the latest Republican-led cut to ATF's budget, as outlined in the fiscal 2026 Justice Department spending bill passed by Congress earlier this year.
↵↵Congress appropriated $365 million to the CFTC for fiscal 2026. But Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman, R-Ark., wants to increase the agency's budget beyond that level.
↵↵A recent analysis from the Budget Lab, a nonpartisan policy group at Yale University, estimates that the recent ruling would erase more than half of projected revenue increases from fiscal 2026 to fiscal
↵↵Dunmoyer said Texas lawmakers are balancing the needs of state residents with the "political realities" on AI, all while the state's legislature is out of session in 2026.
Congressional earmarks returned with a vengeance in fiscal 2026, with familiar faces topping the rankings in each chamber.
↵↵Lawmakers included a slate of restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers in the fiscal 2026 appropriations law enacted late last month.
After a deal struck between the U.S. and China last October, the fees were suspended for at least a year, until Nov. 10, 2026.
↵↵He noted that the top four leaders of the Appropriations committees had reached an agreement on the fiscal 2026 Homeland Security spending bill, which passed the House before a second fatal shooting
His bill, the Homeland Security measure, is currently the subject of tense negotiations as the only one of the 12 full-year fiscal 2026 bills not enacted into law.
But passing a second measure in 2026 could be a daunting task for congressional Republicans, particularly with a razor-thin margin in the House.
Capitol after the Senate voted on a government funding package on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
↵↵The House Rules Committee meets Monday afternoon to work on a rule for floor consideration of the package of five fiscal 2026 spending bills, in addition to a two-week extension of Department of Homeland