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“We’re open to all ideas, everything has trade-offs, all ideas to lower prices for American consumers and American businesses,” Wright said in response to a question on where the administration stood on
Not all districts were redrawn equally, however. Assuming the new maps all hold, Republicans will find themselves on more secure footing overall in the 2026 campaign.
“What this means for the 2026 elections is uncertain. In many states, primaries are over or nearly so.
The rule would also allow GOP leaders to, if needed, bring up a Senate-passed fiscal 2026 Homeland Security spending bill under a procedure whereby the House can suspend the rules and pass the measure
This week, the House is scheduled to do all that as well as host a joint meeting of Congress to hear from King Charles III.
Congress has rejected these requests, including the current Republican majority, which funded the program at $4.13 billion, a $20 million increase, for fiscal 2026.
Redistricting has already thrown a long shadow over the 2026 midterm elections, and we’re not done yet.
Democrats have filed more than 100 amendments, though not all may get a vote, while a small handful of Republicans also plan to bring up amendments. One GOP amendment, from Sen.
But it also puts both parties near parity in the monthslong arms race over redrawing congressional lines that has been a defining storyline of the 2026 campaign.
The draft fiscal 2026 budget resolution calls on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee to write reconciliation legislation by May 15 that
That creates what might best be described as a known unknown for the 2026 campaign cycle – if names of incumbents who wouldn’t generally be vulnerable to primary challenges or general election scrutiny
Congress rejected the idea in the fiscal 2026 spending cycle. Separately, federal courts have blocked agencies from installing such a cap.
The turmoil started on April 1, when the administration announced it had funded Title X grants for fiscal 2026, including grants to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
“After four years and all the shenanigans that have been played by the Department of Justice, I’ll believe it when I see it,” he said in a phone interview from his home in Florida.
The ball is currently in the House’s court after the Senate passed the most recent version of the fiscal 2026 funding bill on April 2.
director of constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, said Blanche could be leading the department under a separate statute, known as Section 508, that allows the deputy attorney general to “exercise all
And if proposed increases for veterans and Pell Grants were set aside, all other nondefense programs would take a collective hit of $95 billion.
The count: 87 percent That’s the share of the 1.2 million individual itemized contributions to Democratic congressional candidates in the 2026 cycle that came by way of digital fundraising platform
Accountability Office said that 16 federal agencies in fiscal year 2024 reported an estimated $162 billion in improper payments across 68 programs, adding that this figure “represents a small subset of all