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.
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Pay caps are a ‘slap in the face’ for some in Capitol Police
Only $84.8 million of that total should go toward overtime, according to a recommendation in the Senate Legislative Branch fiscal 2026 bill report, which also directs the department to keep appropriators
GOP spending bills run into intraparty friction in House
House Republican appropriators are running into headwinds in their attempt to move fiscal 2026 spending bills before the August break, struggling both with a tight schedule and intraparty differences on
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.
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.
House appropriators approve Legislative Branch bill with GAO cuts
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch spending bill on Thursday that would slash the budget for the Government Accountability Office by nearly half and take
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.
‘Eerie similarities’: Dems tea partied in 2010 say today’s GOP faces own reckoningÂ
And that’s Election Day 2026." If there’s a difference between 2010 and now, Carney and Pomeroy said, it’s what power the parties are willing to sacrifice.
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
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
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
Trump doesn’t satisfy GOP holdouts as budget bill talks drag on
That probably wouldn’t allow Congress to kick the can down the road another four years, but it would likely buy time until after the 2026 midterms.
How much SALT is enough?
But if the tax cut law is not extended, the SALT deduction would be reinstated, reducing federal government revenues by $144.7 billion in 2026 and $208.5 billion in 2028.
Republican senators question Trump’s plans to change FEMA
Noem sought to defend a decrease of $646 million non-disaster grant programs for the FEMA that the White House put in its initial budget proposal for fiscal 2026.
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.
Some Republicans question approach to immigration case backlog
Although the Trump administration has not yet made its budget proposal to Congress for fiscal 2026, it appears to be taking a different approach during Trump’s second term with the aggressive reduction
Campaigns · 118th Congress
At the Races: Making an Empire statement
Kirsten Gillibrand is seeking to helm the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm for the 2026 cycle, Axios reports. Gillibrand is up for reelection this year, and the committee’s current chair, Sen.
Campaigns · 118th Congress
At the Races: Meanwhile, on the House battlefield
They aren’t on the Young Guns list after the GOP-controlled legislature redrew the state’s map and incumbents Wiley Nickel and Jeff Jackson decided to run for Senate (in 2026) and attorney general instead
Campaigns · 118th Congress
At the Races: Commonwealth conundrum
Justin Sink of Bloomberg News was unopposed for an at-large seat, and he will be in line to be the 2026-27 president of the WHCA.