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At the Races: A summer of decisions
Nathan’s notes Roll Call elections analyst Nathan Gonzales breaks down the initial 2026 Senate ratings by Inside Elections.
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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
Battle over transgender troops reignites on Capitol Hill
The House intends to debate its fiscal 2026 NDAA in September, and the Senate may take up its own NDAA around the same time.
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
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
Seven and counting? Tally of open Senate seats continues to climb
Collins’ decision is more important to her party than her other colleagues’ plans, because she might be the only Republican who can win a Senate election in Maine in 2026.
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.
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.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the races: A Democratic boogeyman steps aside
Still, Musk was unlikely to have remained the center of attention in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections.
Both sides launch ad campaigns over budget vote as bill moves to Senate
Next stop: Senate The budget reconciliation bill now moves to the Senate, where a handful of Republican senators facing competitive reelection battles in 2026 will come under intense pressure to support
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.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: Democrats go back to school
Starting gate Off-year redistricting: Wisconsin joins the list of states that could see new congressional maps ahead of the 2026 elections, after a pair of lawsuits were filed last week challenging
Challenge to Wisconsin map adds latest wrinkle to 2026 House fight
And it could add another layer of uncertainty to the burgeoning electoral landscape in 2026, when House Republicans will defend their threadbare majority.Â
Senate Democrats need to break some streaks to win the majority
This cycle, Republicans are at risk of losing their hold on Congress if Trump’s job approval rating doesn’t rebound, but the overall natural partisanship of states with Senate races on the 2026 ballot
Collins urges reversal of Trump’s biomedical research clawbacks
Sudip Parikh, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, testified at the hearing that if funding for fiscal 2026 resembles White House "passback" budget, the country will have
Trump’s false claims about gas, egg prices
We can’t fact-check such speculation, but the government’s nonpartisan EIA projects the national price of regular gasoline will continue to average about $3.10 per gallon for 2025 and 2026.
House passes voter registration bill that would require proof of citizenship
"The general election [is] in 2026, we have special elections going on right now," responded House Administration ranking member Joseph D. Morelle, D-N.Y. "And by the way, this isn’t about voting.
Pentagon to unveil cuts alongside fiscal 2026 budget request
Pentagon leaders plan to roll out their recommended cuts to military spending alongside their budget request for fiscal 2026, the Defense Department indicated in a newly released letter to Congress.Â
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: We don’t need no Education (Department)
Speaker likes the midterm map: At a Punchbowl News event this week, Speaker Mike Johnson expressed optimism about defying trends and expanding the House GOP majority in 2026.
Slotkin leads return of the national security women for Democrats
But as the party turns toward 2026 and into 2028, it’s entirely unclear what type of candidate Democratic primary voters will be looking for to win a presidential race again.