Congress Mulls Spending Cuts The House and Senate return to Washington this week to continue their deliberations of President Trump’s recissions and reconciliation priorities. The recissions process is separate from reconciliation both in form and frequency. Congress uses recission on a rare basis to codify certain spending cuts made by […]
The Senate Reconciles Reconciliation Lawmakers return to Washington this week following their Memorial Day recess and the House’s passage of its tax, immigration, and defense reconciliation package. It now falls on the Senate to take up the bill ahead of the Republican Leadership’s July 4th deadline for final passage; however, […]
Reconciling Reconciliation House and Senate lawmakers are in Washington for the final time this month before breaking for their Memorial Day week-long recess. In that time, House Republicans aim to pass their comprehensive tax, energy, health, and immigration reconciliation bill after narrowly clearing it out of the Budget Committee last […]
Congress Back in DC The House and Senate return to Washington this week amid breaking news that the Trump Administration and China will temporarily pause most of their reciprocal tariffs as the two countries further negotiate a final trade deal. Meanwhile, House lawmakers will have a packed legislative agenda this […]
Congress Pivots to Summer Agenda The House and Senate return to Washington this week following President Trump’s release of his FY26 budget request last Friday, which largely calls for non-defense spending cuts while boosting defense and homeland security funding. Members have already begun soliciting local appropriations requests for the FY26 […]
