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Trump’s Epstein tirade, Fed chair threats drown out Vance’s ‘big’ bill sales pitch
Vance said administration officials intend to spend the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections "talking about these big wins," while asserting that Democrats and the "corporate media" would like to focus
House subcommittee advances NIL framework for college sports
The settlement now allows universities to directly share revenues with college athletes, capped at roughly $20.5 million per school for the 2025–2026 season, in a watershed change for college athletics
Crypto, Defense bills back on track after Oval Office talk
Three pieces of cryptocurrency legislation and the fiscal 2026 Defense appropriations bill appeared ready for House floor action on Wednesday after stalling out for much of the day on Tuesday.
Senate NDAA would hike defense spending by $32 billion
The Senate version of the fiscal 2026 defense policy bill would authorize an extra $32.1 billion for national security spending above what the Pentagon sought, putting the chamber on a collision course
Deadly Texas flooding puts Trump’s past talk of eliminating FEMA to the test
The devastation in Texas could cause lawmakers, even some Republicans, to question the administration’s proposed cuts to FEMA spending in the administration’s fiscal 2026 budget. Â
FBI headquarters fight stymies spending bill in Senate
Senate appropriators scattered from the meeting with no clear path forward on how to approve the broader fiscal 2026 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill, a measure that had bipartisan support
House panel wants anti-drone systems at US defense facilities
pose both an urgent and enduring threat to United States personnel, facilities, and assets, to include those located inside the United States homeland," said the draft report accompanying the fiscal 2026
Senate appropriators to weigh in on Justice Department revamp
The administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request seeks to end the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a separate component, wipe away the Office on Violence Against Women’s status as
Draft House NDAA demands details on Trump’s Golden Dome
The fact that the panel’s fiscal 2026 bill is asking for this information is the latest sign that even the defense oversight committees know little about what Trump’s vision for missile defense might entail
Straight talk about the ‘big, beautiful bill’
When it comes to the BBB’s role in the 2026 midterms, it all boils down to whether voters look at the bill through an economic lens or a health care lens, and that depends on how effectively the bill deals
Serious legislating hits a low point
ground on the Medicaid cuts and voted no, only to undercut his own message by caving to President Donald Trump’s threats of a primary challenge and declaring he wouldn’t be running for reelection in 2026
They wanted to ‘fix Congress.’ They still do, modernizers say
But in the fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch bill that advanced out of the House Appropriations Committee last month, the account would receive just $4 million, down from a height of $10 million.
Law enforcement groups oppose proposed anti-drug program cuts
The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request proposes to move the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program from the Office of National Drug Control Policy to the Justice Department, while
Trump worked phones on ‘big beautiful bill’ — but left some arm-twisting to others
"With the bill easily portrayed as benefiting the rich, they have also created a likely problem for themselves in 2026 and, more likely, 2028 elections," according to Giles Alston, an analyst for the private
Rep. Carter, seeking Georgia Senate seat, surrenders Health gavel
Jon Ossoff for Senate in 2026, made the announcement via a press release Wednesday as House Republicans prepared to take up the Senate-passed budget reconciliation bill.
‘Only way out is deportation’: Trump talks tough at Everglades detention site
are not about deporting a violent criminal or violent felon that was found guilty in a court of law, as they should be deported," Espaillat said at a June 24 House Appropriations markup of the fiscal 2026
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
Senators air concerns about DOJ budget proposal
The House and Senate have not released their fiscal 2026 spending bills that includes DOJ funding, although the House is expected to do so in early July.
This week: Congress debates war and reconciliation
Appropriations in House The House, meanwhile, returns from a Juneteenth recess poised to begin floor debate on fiscal 2026 appropriations, while waiting for the Senate to amend and send back the budget