Congress · 119th Congress
This week: Iran war powers, DHS funding top congressional agenda
↵↵The appropriations bill is the only one of the 12 fiscal 2026 measures that has not become law.
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Congress turns to Homeland Security funding clash
↵↵Congress stripped out that Homeland Security portion from a fiscal 2026 spending package and agreed to a short-term extension of current funding levels to negotiate.
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Senate spending deal runs into ‘hotline’ headwinds
At the same time five other final fiscal 2026 spending bills that were caught in limbo by the partisan clash over immigration policy would be allowed to pass.
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Sidelined last election, abortion returns to policy limelight
↵↵Related: Senators feel good about health deal, despite Hyde complications↵↵"Abandoning the most popular pro-life provision in history is a losing strategy, especially as we look toward the 2026 midterm
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Fears of military action in Greenland grow after Venezuela operation
Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said Monday he was introducing an amendment to the fiscal 2026 Defense appropriations bill to block funding for military action against Greenland.
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Health care, housing and crime bills top White House’s 2026 wish list
↵↵Over the weekend, Trump put another item on lawmakers' 2026 agenda when he ordered U.S. military and law enforcement personnel to carry out an audacious mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
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US capture of Maduro rests on criminal case
↵↵[Related: Press Conference: Donald Trump Discusses the Capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela – Jan. 3, 2026]↵↵However, in a press conference Saturday Trump did not rule out the continued presence of
Heard On The Hill · 119th Congress
Photos of the week | November 14-20, 2025
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks about the 2026 Congressional calendar during a news conference with House Republican leadership in the Capitol Visitor Center
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Senate payouts unnerve some in House GOP ahead of shutdown vote
↵↵A provision in the fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch spending bill, which is part of the package, would allow senators to sue for at least $500,000 each when federal investigators search their phone records
Senate bills pressuring Russia advance into uncertain future
Trump has not asked Congress for fiscal 2026 funding to pay U.S. defense contractors to build weapons for Ukraine or for new authority to transfer weapons from Pentagon inventories to the front lines.Â
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: Reeling in the recruits
Senate Democrats are making strides toward recruiting who they believe are some of their best possible candidates for 2026, which should make key races more competitive — or at least more expensive
First three fiscal 2026 appropriations bills pass Senate
The Senate passed its first package of fiscal 2026 spending bills Friday, making up for lost time in the long-delayed appropriations process before preparing to head out of town for a monthlong August
Senators express wariness of proposed mergers within DOJ
Attorney General Pamela Bondi this week defended the fiscal 2026 budget request at House and Senate appropriations hearings, including proposals to fold the work of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
Rubio defends State Department reorganization in Hill testimony
While the topic of the hearing was nominally supposed to be the State Department’s fiscal 2026 budget request, foreign policy and the department’s structural changes dominated the discussion. Â
Budget plan with dueling tax, spending targets OK’d in Senate
Collins is up for reelection in 2026 in a Democratic-leaning state. No Democrats voted for it.
Vance pitches separate cuts package as House GOP preps CR vote
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said the rescissions package would likely be separate from fiscal 2026 appropriations, which will also feature spending cuts.
Trump, GOP senators ‘rowing in the same direction’ despite some differences
With the 2026 midterm election cycle just around the corner, House and Senate Republicans have been eager to avoid offending those very voters.
House budget blueprint ready for close-up amid GOP ‘angst’
Details As currently drafted, the blueprint calls for raising the $36.1 trillion debt limit by $4 trillion, which could put off the next battle over the federal borrowing cap until after the 2026 midterms
House GOP preps all-in-one budget blueprint for committee vote
The Senate plan is to take up a separate fiscal 2026 budget resolution after the initial reconciliation package is signed into law that would lay the groundwork for the more complex tax bill.
Graham unveils budget blueprint ahead of markup next week
Senate Republicans are aiming for a second budget resolution, starting with fiscal 2026, later this year that would contain reconciliation instructions for the expected tax package.