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.
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Rep. Don Bacon announces retirement, opening up purple Nebraska district
Last month, Bacon featured on CQ Roll Call’s initial list of the most vulnerable House members of the 2026 cycle. The main super PAC backing House Democrats cheered Bacon’s impending departure.Â
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.
Medicaid work requirements pose huge challenges for states
State Medicaid directors, including those representing red states, have privately told drafters of the legislation that a Dec. 31, 2026, effective date in both versions would be too soon to implement work
Iowa Democrat launches third challenge to vulnerable GOP Rep. Miller-Meeks
House Republicans — Zach Nunn in the Des Moines-centered 3rd District and Ashley Hinson in northeast Iowa’s 2nd District — are on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s initial target list for 2026
CBO: GOP budget bill would take from the poor, give to the rich
The nonpartisan agency said it estimates that over the fiscal 2026 through 2034 period, after-tax income and federal benefits "would decrease for households toward the bottom of the income distribution
Hegseth gets bipartisan pushback for defense spending strategy
Senate appropriators from both parties denounced Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Wednesday for relying on Republicans’ partisan budget reconciliation bill to meet his spending objectives in fiscal 2026.
House considers Trump cuts as Senate Republicans work on reconciliation bill
The headline committee action for the week is Tuesday’s kickoff of the regular appropriations markup process for fiscal 2026.
‘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.
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At the races: Big, beautiful bickering
Moderates in the Senate such as Maine’s Susan Collins, who is on the ballot in 2026, and even some red-state conservatives such as Missouri’s Josh Hawley have raised alarms over the measure’s proposed
Time and voters will determine who is right in current Medicaid fight
While voters have expressed general concerns about the national debt and deficit, the change of heart on the CBO from some Republicans is unlikely to be the biggest issue of the 2026 midterm elections.
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
Kathy Hochul, in 2026
New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado is running for governor. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for the Brooklyn Academy of Music)
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
Republicans must ensure 2026 isn’t 2018
In 2026, he faces another midterm election after losing the House in 2018, when a positive result expected by some in the GOP never materialized.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
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.
House Republicans need to break some streaks to hold their majority in 2026
House Democrats need a net gain of just three seats to win a majority in 2026.Â
This week: Reconciliation bill back on track, at least for now
Appropriators will be hearing testimony on the Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget proposals ahead of what could be a busy summer of work on new spending bills.
Kennedy defends budget request but is silent on big HHS changes
Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — that are examining the Trump administration’s $94 billion budget request for the department in fiscal 2026