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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
↵↵Moran pressed Lutnick on what would happen to $21 billion of funds left over after the approval of all final proposals.
For years, funding has been consistent at around $550 million per year, though both chambers in their fiscal 2026 bills have proposed cuts. Â
↵↵Disapproval week: The House voted Tuesday to disapprove of how Illinois Democrat Jesús "Chuy" GarcÃa announced his retirement, with 23 Democrats joining all present Republicans on the vote, Roll Call's
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
"In the meantime, I’m also working to immediately pay all our federal employees and prevent this administration’s mass firings.
"Republicans, for the health and safety of the USA, DO YOUR JOB, and confirm All Nominees. They should NOT BE FORCED TO WAIT," Trump posted Thursday on Truth Social.
The Senate passed its first package of fiscal 2026 spending bills Friday, making up for lost time in the long-delayed appropriations process before preparing to head out of town for a monthlong August
Senate Republican appropriators want their leadership to bring an initial package of fiscal 2026 spending bills to the floor before August recess, Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Thursday
"It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions Bill and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN & MSDNC put together.
Senate appropriators scattered from the meeting with no clear path forward on how to approve the broader fiscal 2026 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill, a measure that had bipartisan support
The administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request seeks to end the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a separate component, wipe away the Office on Violence Against Women’s status as
Attorney General Pamela Bondi this week defended the fiscal 2026 budget request at House and Senate appropriations hearings, including proposals to fold the work of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
Unfortunately, it’s currently failing on all these fronts," said Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the top Democrat on the subcommittee.
Closing the books Clearing the yearlong stopgap measure Friday, Thune said on the floor earlier in the day, would allow Congress to close the books on last year’s business and move on to fiscal 2026 spending
In the House, 48 Democrats joined all Republicans in backing the measure earlier this week.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who also served in the House with Walz, touted Walz’s gubernatorial record, highlighting a state law meant to give free breakfast and lunch to all students and
But in a state that Trump won by 39 percentage points in 2020, Manchin’s departure means the seat is all but guaranteed to flip to the GOP.
their proposal is better targeted toward working families in high-tax states and is designed to prevent a net tax cut for the rich, unlike alternatives to fully repeal or significantly lift the cap for all
Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth’s proposal to establish an independent Afghanistan commission to look at the involvement of all U.S. government agencies has garnered support from 13 other senators, including