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Georgia Rep. Mike Collins enters GOP primary to take on Sen. Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff in what could be the most competitive Senate election of 2026.
Republicans brush aside Trump plan to slash NIH funding
House Republican appropriators plan to disregard the White House’s proposed 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health budget for fiscal 2026, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the
South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman joins crowded Republican primary for governor
Andy Biggs of Arizona and Byron Donalds of Florida are also seeking their respective states’ top elective office in 2026, and both have already collected the endorsement of President Donald Trump.
House, Senate panels differ on future of hate crime grants
House and Senate appropriators are divided in their fiscal 2026 spending bills on whether to zero out funding for grants authorized under two laws focused on addressing hate crimes.Â
Spending bills reject Trump plans for DOJ overhaul
But buried in the fine print, fiscal 2026 funding bills from both the House and Senate signal that lawmakers are not on board with the overhaul proposals.
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
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
Appropriators advance Legislative Branch bill without GAO cuts
Senate appropriators approved their fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch bill Thursday, which would boost spending for Congress by roughly 5 percent and avoid cuts to the Government Accountability Office.
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
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
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
‘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
Scott Brown makes another Senate bid in New Hampshire
But the GOP is optimistic about competing in the state, which could be the party’s third-best pickup option in 2026, behind Georgia and Michigan.Â
Fresh off Trump firings, Library of Congress stares down a proposed budget cut
According to a Republican summary of the proposal, the Library of Congress would receive $767.6 million in funding in fiscal 2026, $84.5 million below current levels of funding.