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↵↵For the first time ever, the 2026 Senate Labor-HHS appropriations report directed the NIH to ensure autism research includes profound autism.
↵↵The fiscal 2026 Agriculture spending law set that 0.3 percent limit on total THC content, effectively a ban on intoxicating hemp products that kicked off an effort from lawmakers in hemp-growing states
Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., touted changes in the fiscal 2026 spending package enacted this month to improve pharmacy-benefit manager pricing transparency and reduce incentives for PBMs to promote higher-priced
"It's 2026. Nothing has happened." ↵↵"I just haven't seen any evidence in our committees of Republicans being interested in this issue," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during the same briefing.
↵↵Overall, successful Democratic challengers, on average, outspent the GOP incumbents they defeated. 2026↵↵This year's financial dynamic in House races might look closer to 2006 or 2010 than to 2018.Â
↵↵News reports indicate that some 2,400 Guard troops are to remain in Washington through the end of 2026.
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
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
"I'm hoping that we can find a bill that can get 60 votes that can fix the problem with these changes for Jan. 1, 2026."
↵↵The busy race to succeed Newsom remains wide open, with polls showing no candidate breaking out some seven months before the 2026 primary.
↵↵Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, was skeptical that much could be done for plan year 2026.
The Trump administration wants at least three advanced modular reactors to reach criticality by July 4, 2026 — a goal industry insiders have called ambitious.Â
Sununu will run for his old seat in 2026, he announced Wednesday.
Most federal operations stopped after Sept. 30 because Congress failed to pass funding legislation for the 2026 fiscal year that began Oct. 1.Â
Nearly a year out from the 2026 midterms, the latest federal fundraising reports show challengers outraising several vulnerable House and Senate members in key races.Â
But the reality is that it’s October 2025, not October 2026, and it’s very possible this will all be ancient history by the midterm elections.
enhanced health insurance subsidies for coverage bought on government-run exchanges that expire at the end of the year, arguing it can’t wait because insurers are already locking in their premium rates for 2026
But the Congressional Budget Office estimated in July that starting in fiscal 2026 the reconciliation law would use up its annual $30 billion borrowing cap to finance the law’s increased spending on commodity
CBO estimates that gross premiums for marketplace "benchmark plans" would be lower by an average of 7.6 percent each year between 2026 to 2035 compared with its baseline projections if the subsidies are