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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
But the Senate has maintained the bill's earmark eligibility, and the fiscal 2026 Labor-HHS-Education law includes just under $1.4 billion within those accounts, all from the Senate.Â
↵↵Lawmakers included a slate of restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers in the fiscal 2026 appropriations law enacted late last month.
"It's 2026. Nothing has happened." ↵↵"I just haven't seen any evidence in our committees of Republicans being interested in this issue," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during the same briefing.
The House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, in a report accompanying their fiscal 2026 bill, urged HHS in its bill report to completely defund the panel.
Administration officials have spoken with allies on Capitol Hill and think most elements would have bipartisan support and can move forward in 2026.
↵↵Dunn, a urologist and former Army surgeon, is the eighth House Republican to announce retirement plans in 2026, while 18 others are departing to seek other offices.Â
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 many people have signed up for ACA coverage for 2026
↵↵In 2026, the first year of the program, states will receive between $147 million and $281 million, with Texas securing the largest amount, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has acknowledged the difficulty, calling health care "a very complicated issue" while adding that there is "much more to come … to bring down the cost of health care" in early 2026
Republican Rep. Jodey C. Arrington of Texas won’t seek reelection in 2026, closing out a tumultuous run as House Budget chairman.
And the cards were already stacked against the effort, given the amount of time and energy that completing fiscal 2026 appropriations was going to take — a task that has only grown larger as a result of
Most federal operations stopped after Sept. 30 because Congress failed to pass funding legislation for the 2026 fiscal year that began Oct. 1.Â
From left, Deb Haaland, JoAnna Mendoza and Kaela Berg are among the Democratic women from blue-collar backgrounds running for office in 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call; Mendoza for Congress/Facebook; Kaela for Congress/Facebook)
KFF has since updated that analysis, finding that the average increase would be 114 percent in 2026.
enhanced health insurance subsidies for coverage bought on government-run exchanges that expire at the end of the year, arguing it can’t wait because insurers are already locking in their premium rates for 2026
Health insurance At the heart of the dispute is how to address the expiration of health insurance subsidies, a politically fraught issue for vulnerable Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms.
But Democrats argue that with health insurers setting policy rates now, it will be too late to retroactively fix the problem for the 2026 plan year unless lawmakers act now.
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office say if the enhanced health care subsidies aren’t extended now, it will be too late for insurers to lower premiums offered for plans purchased on the exchanges for the 2026
Insurers say it will be extremely difficult for them to adjust premiums for the 2026 plan year if Congress doesn’t act to extend them before the end of the month.