Congress · 119th Congress
Earmarks flood spending bills after a year’s hiatus
Congressional earmarks returned with a vengeance in fiscal 2026, with familiar faces topping the rankings in each chamber.
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Policy · 119th Congress
After stalled health deal, voters want Congress to deliver
↵↵Lawmakers included a slate of restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers in the fiscal 2026 appropriations law enacted late last month.
Congress · 119th Congress
House lawmakers spar over harms of potential DHS shutdown
↵↵He noted that the top four leaders of the Appropriations committees had reached an agreement on the fiscal 2026 Homeland Security spending bill, which passed the House before a second fatal shooting
Congress · 119th Congress
Graham outlines demands as clock ticks on spending package
↵↵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
Congress · 119th Congress
Sidelined last election, abortion returns to policy limelight
↵↵Related: Senators feel good about health deal, despite Hyde complications↵↵"Abandoning the most popular pro-life provision in history is a losing strategy, especially as we look toward the 2026 midterm
Congress · 119th Congress
Health care, housing and crime bills top White House’s 2026 wish list
↵↵Over the weekend, Trump put another item on lawmakers' 2026 agenda when he ordered U.S. military and law enforcement personnel to carry out an audacious mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
Congress · 119th Congress
In the Spotlight: Marilyn Strickland
provision authored by Washington Democrat Marilyn Strickland that would ensure U.S. military bases not be named after Confederate officers was stripped out of the final compromise version of the fiscal 2026
Congress · 119th Congress
In the Spotlight: Earl L. ‘Buddy’ Carter
Jon Ossoff in the 2026 midterms. Trump narrowly carried the state last fall, and Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates the race a Toss-Up.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
Supreme Court’s Texas map ruling could spark redistricting race
↵↵A DOJ account replied: "Not a chance, Gavin — we will stop your DEI districts for 2026."
Campaigns · 119th Congress
Supreme Court lets Texas use GOP-redrawn congressional map
↵↵And Alito wrote that he would not delay the decision by writing a detailed response to the dissent because "Texas needs certainty on which map will govern the 2026 midterm elections."
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At Supreme Court, Texas congressional map faces issue of timing
an injunction is obvious: campaigning had already begun, candidates had already gathered signatures and filed applications to appear on the ballot under the 2025 map, and early voting for the March 3, 2026
Congress · 119th Congress
‘Blocked, ruined, canceled’: Trump hosts Hungary’s Orban as shutdown rolls on
↵↵If Trump has a legislative strategy for the 12-month run to the 2026 midterm elections, he and his team have done a bang-up job camouflaging it.
Campaigns · 119th Congress
It’s Calvert vs. Kim in redrawn Southern California district
↵↵Calvert's 2026 race is one of several pivotal contests that could affect who sits on the Pentagon spending panel, which controls roughly half the appropriations Congress provides each year.Â
Congress · 117th Congress
Tensions rise over drought-stricken Colorado River water use
Last month, California’s water districts committed to conserving an additional 400,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Mead each year from 2023 to 2026, and according to the Colorado River Board of California
Congress · 117th Congress
Sweeping budget package passes Senate; House on deck Friday
that would lower insulin costs by providing $3.1 billion to help federally qualified health centers cover the direct costs of discounted insulin and epinephrine for qualifying patients through fiscal 2026
Congress · 117th Congress
Lawmakers face pressure to pass mental health legislation
John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., that would increase authorizations to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program to $50 million per year through fiscal 2026.
Congress · 117th Congress
Social Security fixes could animate post-midterms agenda
Medicare is probably more costly in the long run and has an even earlier trust fund exhaustion date, in 2026.
Congress · 117th Congress
Sanders opposes plan to scrap ‘SALT’ cap, then restore it
Under the proposal circulating on Capitol Hill, the current $10,000 limit on SALT deductions would be repealed for the 2021 through 2025 tax years, then reinstated from 2026 through 2030 in Democrats
Congress · 117th Congress
Economy, Fed paper over debt problem
Medicare’s financial problems start to pinch in 2026, when hospital payments would need to be trimmed 9 percent, according to government actuaries.
Policy · 117th Congress
Automakers signal support for Biden’s electric-vehicle vision
At the urging of automakers, Trump relaxed the standards to about 40 miles per gallon, raising standards by about 1.5 percent a year through model year 2026.