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Trump signs major spending package while immigration talks continue
Capitol after the Senate voted on a government funding package on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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Capitol after the Senate voted on a government funding package on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
↵↵The five-bill fiscal 2026 package, which passed the Senate on Friday, punts on full-year funding for the Homeland Security Department as lawmakers try to negotiate tighter restrictions on federal immigration
↵↵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
At the same time five other final fiscal 2026 spending bills that were caught in limbo by the partisan clash over immigration policy would be allowed to pass.
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
The Senate plans to take up the package next week to meet a Jan. 30 deadline, but a potential snowstorm could present a hurdle.
The Senate cleared a roughly $180 billion, three-bill spending package for President Donald Trump's signature Thursday, marking a halfway point in completing long-delayed fiscal 2026 appropriations.
The House easily passed a package of two fiscal 2026 appropriations bills with broad bipartisan support Wednesday, teeing up a second set of long-delayed spending bills for the Senate to consider.Â
↵↵As the calendar flipped to 2026, there have been no immediate signs of another looming partial government shutdown.
↵↵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.
House and Senate negotiators on Sunday published the text of their compromise fiscal 2026 defense authorization bill, setting it up for House floor action this week.Â
↵↵Leaders of the Armed Services committees are reported to have finished their work on a compromise fiscal 2026 defense policy bill, and bill text is likely to be unveiled this week.
At least one of the Senate's yet-to-be-unveiled fiscal 2026 appropriations bills could be released next week, even though lawmakers will be in their districts for the Thanksgiving recess.
But so far, the two chambers and the two parties remain on different paths when it comes to fiscal 2026 spending bills.
↵↵Congress hasn't yet agreed on fiscal 2026 appropriations for the agency.
The top four leaders of the Senate and House Appropriations committees plan to huddle Thursday to make headway on the next package of fiscal 2026 spending bills, sources familiar with the meeting said
A Senate plan to take up a major fiscal 2026 appropriations package on the floor next week is looking increasingly like a long shot.