Bondi defends Justice Department proposal to end standalone ATF
The Justice Department in a fiscal 2026 budget request has outlined a plan to merge ATF functions into the Drug Enforcement Administration, which would remain a single component.
Search Roll Call
Search the Roll Call archive by keyword, date, Congress, section, or tags.
494 results for "2026-2026"
Major insurers pledge to improve preauthorization
Insurers would also reduce the number of services subject to prior authorization requirements by Jan. 1, 2026, and ensure continuity for patients who are changing insurance plans.
House subcommittee advances Legislative Branch spending bill
The cut is part of the GOP’s fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, which the subcommittee reported favorably on a party-line, 6-4 vote.
Justice Department says Trump can undo monument designations
two days following the release of the Justice Department opinion, testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources and House Natural Resources committees on the department’s proposed fiscal 2026
Bessent, House Democrats spar over budget package’s debt boost
Bessent appeared before the committee Wednesday to justify the administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request, spending much of his time praising and defending the budget reconciliation bill the House passed
Democrats clash with Hegseth over Guard deployment, shipbuilding
Rosa DeLauro, the ranking member of the full Appropriations Committee, sought to drill down on the fiscal 2026 budget request’s shipyard investments.
Explaining Trump’s claim of a ‘68 percent’ tax increase
"We estimate 64.2 percent of households would pay more taxes in 2026 if the law expires," John Buhl, spokesman for the Tax Policy Center, told us in an email, referring to a March analysis of the effect
White House seeks to diminish Office on Violence Against Women
The White House, in the fine print of its fiscal 2026 budget request appendix released last week, proposed a 29 percent cut to appropriated OVW program funding, writing that it and other department grantmaking
Trump-Musk alliance ends with personal attacks, threats to end federal contracts
it would do, if signed into law. ’Truth will come out’ The world’s richest man on Thursday showed no signs of going down without a rhetorical fight, appearing to take aim at Republicans ahead of the 2026
CBO sees lower deficits from tariffs, but with big caveats
The CBO said the tariffs will reduce the rate of real growth in gross domestic product by 0.06 percentage points per year through fiscal 2035 and increase inflation by 0.4 percentage points in 2025 and 2026
TRIO cuts emerge as Education budget sticking point
Senators from both parties challenged Education Secretary Linda McMahon about her agency’s detailed fiscal 2026 budget proposal Tuesday, with a focus on cuts to the bipartisan federal TRIO programs.
Senators spar over nationwide injunctions stopping Trump policies
Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, urged House appropriators to consider including language in fiscal 2026 funding bills that would "address the abusive use of nationwide
Congressional agencies look for boost amid government downsizing
Several legislative branch agencies are seeking substantial funding hikes for fiscal 2026, even as the White House proposes steep cuts to domestic spending and foreign aid, as outlined in a detailed request
Checking the math on White House, GOP claims about ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Rutherford was responding to a Congressional Budget Office report on the bill that said for the years 2026 to 2034, despite some proposed spending cuts, there would, on net, be "an increase in the federal
Trump, GOP prep next chapter in spending cuts agenda
the next phase of its plans to downsize the federal government, submitting a formal request to Congress to take back unspent funds in out-of-favor areas and fleshing out the president’s "skinny" fiscal 2026
Judge blocks Trump’s efforts to shutter Education Department
McMahon during her Wednesday testimony defended her agency’s preliminary budget request for fiscal 2026.
McMahon lays out Education Department ‘final mission’ to House appropriators
Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee, McMahon offered sparse details when pressed about cuts that have already been implemented, as well as the Trump administration’s so-called "skinny" budget request for fiscal 2026
Senate panel wary of states managing National Park sites
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended proposed cuts to his department’s fiscal 2026 budget before a Senate panel on Wednesday as lawmakers questioned an administration suggestion that some parts of the
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
Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research
Appropriations Subcommittee, sometimes deflected and other times fought back as he outlined his vision for reducing and preventing chronic disease through his department’s $94 billion budget request for fiscal 2026