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Congress searches for path on surveillance authority renewal
This week, neither chamber has announced action on a bill that might make it through Congress and be signed into law.
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This week, neither chamber has announced action on a bill that might make it through Congress and be signed into law.
</p> The process already requires at least two of the marathon voting sessions — one on a budget resolution and one on an eventual budget reconciliation bill — in order to get through to passage with
</p> The reconciliation bill is expected to focus on immigration enforcement funding, helping end the ongoing partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
</p> The program allows the U.S. government to collect digital communications of foreigners located outside the country.
</p> Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said he would hold up a Senate-passed bill that funds the department except for immigration enforcement functions until a budget reconciliation bill providing funding
</p> Trump has at times threatened not to sign any other legislation until Congress passes the provisions.</p> The House earlier this year passed a bill containing some of the voting provisions.
</p> Republican Sen.
</p> A bill sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., in the Senate and Rep.
</p> Guthrie made his declaration of a race at a January markup of a bill that would allow the president to waive certain environmental requirements for critical mineral refineries — part of the chip
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.
</p> A bill from Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., has more than 80 co-sponsors, but has not advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee. A similar measure from Sen.
bill.
</p> Prediction markets have undergone rapid recent growth.
</p> With next week’s deadline for filing federal tax returns looming, House Republicans are working overtime to remind voters about the tax relief measures contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
It also calls for passing another filibuster-proof reconciliation bill to boost defense and homeland security funding outside of the regular appropriations process.
But the administration is counting on Republicans to provide most of that increase, or $350 billion, through a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill, outside of the normal appropriations process.
</p> Trump set a June 1 deadline for Congress to pass a reconciliation bill funding the immigration agencies, a tight timeline for a cumbersome process that dragged on for roughly five months last year
</p> He also pushed allies in Congress to limit mail-in ballots in most circumstances through provisions of his proposed SAVE America Act voter identification bill.
a reconciliation bill to fund two immigration agencies in the coming weeks.