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↵↵More than the usual amount of arm-twisting was sometimes required for the year's significant legislation, including on votes setting up floor consideration of the fiscal 2026 defense authorization and
The funding was made available to spend through fiscal 2029, but the Pentagon said in a summary of its plans last month that it would work to "accelerate execution into FY 2026 if that can be done without
↵↵Federal unions said in a court filing late last month that many federal agencies were forced to hold off on their full layoff plans throughout 2025 and into early 2026 because of litigation and that
↵↵His four defeats were on a series of amendments to the fiscal 2026 Energy-Water appropriations bill, where his proposed cuts to four regional federal-state partnerships that fund infrastructure projects
↵↵Republicans have sought to blame Democrats for the current partial shutdown because of their refusal to back DHS funding as part of the broader fiscal 2026 appropriations law.
The battle over immigration enforcement has become a fight over whether to temporarily extend funding for the last outstanding fiscal 2026 spending bill.
↵↵While 11 of the 12 annual spending bills have become law for fiscal 2026, the Homeland Security Department's funding will expire on Friday.
Capitol after the Senate voted on a government funding package on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
↵↵Congress stripped out that Homeland Security portion from a fiscal 2026 spending package and agreed to a short-term extension of current funding levels to negotiate.
↵↵The Senate is aiming to pass a package of five full-year fiscal 2026 spending bills — Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, Financial Services, National Security-State, and Transportation-HUD — along with a
Schumer were scrambling Thursday morning to ink a deal that would punt final decisions on fiscal 2026 Homeland Security funding but let five other spending bills get to President Donald Trump's desk next
↵↵Appropriators included $30 million in the fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch measure for the Capitol Police to continue and expand its mutual aid program, which is used to reimburse local law enforcement
promptly rejected a Senate Democratic proposal for restraints on federal immigration agents Wednesday, saying those talks should occur on a separate track from negotiations on a $1.3 trillion fiscal 2026
↵↵Particularly challenging for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., will be to push through the fiscal 2026 Homeland Security spending bill, which hit a snag following
affordability, and nobody has really walked through what it's going to mean for those 8 million people," Wyden said, referring to an early estimate of how many people have signed up for ACA coverage for 2026
↵↵[Related: Press Conference: Donald Trump Discusses the Capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela – Jan. 3, 2026]↵↵However, in a press conference Saturday Trump did not rule out the continued presence of
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has acknowledged the difficulty, calling health care "a very complicated issue" while adding that there is "much more to come … to bring down the cost of health care" in early 2026
↵↵But the aspiration of Thune and Senate Republican appropriators to get the ball rolling on a package of fiscal 2026 spending bills was not to be.
The funding package that was approved included three of the 12 regular fiscal 2026 spending bills, while Congress punted the deadlines for the remaining bills to the end of January.
↵↵House Republican leaders released draft legislation Friday afternoon consisting of a package of health proposals aimed at reducing health care costs in 2026, aiming to lay down a marker ahead of the