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Reconciliation bill punted until after Memorial Day recess

Congressional leaders are closing up shop for the week without voting on their long-sought immigration budget bill, as Senate Republicans struggled to agree on legislative text amid an 11th-hour fight over a new Justice Department “anti-weaponization” fund. While Republican leaders had hoped to push the bill through both chambers on strictly…

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Trump could face foreign policy squeeze in Senate after primary ruckus

New questions have emerged about whether President Donald Trump has lost sway with some Republican senators as they mull action related to a number of thorny foreign policy matters after they have clashed with Trump over the Iran war, the White House ballroom and his targeting of respected incumbents. Trump’s…

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Judge weighs in on lawmaker cost-of-living case

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a group of current and former congressional lawmakers are not barred from recovering damages in a case over whether members of Congress are owed back pay for years of suppressed cost-of-living increases. The lawmakers’ legal team has argued that Congress and the president have…

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Appropriators approve Legislative Branch spending bill with GAO cuts

The House Appropriations Committee advanced a draft fiscal 2027 Legislative Branch spending bill on Wednesday that would slash the budget for the Government Accountability Office by nearly one-quarter and give a boost to Capitol Police. The party-line vote of 34-28 came after a contentious markup stretching late into the evening,…

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The 10 most vulnerable House members, less than 6 months from Election Day

When Texas Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map last summer to give their party additional pickup opportunities, it set off a back-and-forth with both parties revisiting district lines in several states. The battle turbocharged last month, when the Supreme Court invalidated Louisiana’s map and significantly limited the use of race…

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Will the House ban staff from prediction markets? These members aren’t waiting

As the House faces growing calls to ban trading on prediction markets by members and staff, some are taking things into their own hands. When Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., announced a new internal policy for his office in March, he described it as a way to make a stand as…

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No, it’s not an anti-incumbent election, Volume 4

ANALYSIS — Even with the potential of three incumbents losing primaries over the course of 10 days, please don’t call this an anti-incumbent election. On Tuesday, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie lost the 4th District GOP primary to Ed Gallrein in a race that garnered national attention. That was just three…

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House passes housing bill still at odds with Senate version

The House voted 396-13 to pass housing legislation Wednesday after two key senators said the House bill would need work to pass the Senate. The House vote on the measure was procedurally to adopt a resolution concurring in a Senate amendment, a move that effectively swapped in House text to…

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Tensions over prediction markets dominate Senate hearing

Senators at a Commerce Committee panel hearing aired concerns Wednesday about rapidly growing prediction markets, appearing largely unswayed by industry arguments that they are not a form of betting subject to state regulation. Members of the committee’s Consumer Protection, Technology and Data Privacy Subcommittee were in agreement at a hearing that…

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Judge rules that Trump cannot ignore Presidential Records Act

A Washington federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration cannot ignore the Presidential Records Act, and held that the law is likely constitutional. The order, from Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, directed White House staff to comply with the…

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Former Rep. Barney Frank dead at 86

Former Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to voluntarily announce he was gay, who rose to lead the House Financial Services Committee at a seminal moment in American economic history, died Tuesday night. He was 86. The progressive Frank had among the sharpest wits of members of the…

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Where have all the Blue Dogs gone? Ask Vicente Gonzalez

Texas Rep. Vicente Gonzalez is part of a dwindling breed — he co-chairs the Blue Dog Coalition of moderate Democrats, which counts just 10 members in the current Congress. The ideological middle was a different place when he interned at the Capitol in the 1990s, according to Gonzalez. “Back then,…

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GOP Senate primaries in Georgia and Alabama head to June runoffs

The Republican primaries for Senate in Georgia and Alabama are heading to runoffs next month after no candidate took a majority of the vote in Tuesday’s respective primaries. In the Republican race in Georgia to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, Rep. Mike Collins and former football coach Derek Dooley…

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Matchups for 4 battleground House races are set in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Democrats on Tuesday picked their nominees for a handful of House races that could help determine control of the chamber this fall. Bob Brooks, a union leader and retired firefighter, won the Democratic primary to challenge freshman Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in Pennsylvania’s 7th District in what was the…

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Massie ousted in Kentucky primary by Trump-backed challenger

Donald Trump scored a political win in eastern Kentucky on Tuesday, with his chosen candidate vanquishing Rep. Thomas Massie, a fiscal hawk with a libertarian streak who has publicly sparred with the president on spending bills, the war in Iran and the release of records related to the convicted late…

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GOP senators push for challenge to House maps in Democratic states

Senate Republicans used a hearing Tuesday to push the Trump administration to file lawsuits challenging congressional maps in California, Illinois and other Democrat-controlled states in the wake of a Supreme Court decision rolling back the Voting Rights Act. The hearing comes weeks after the Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative majority in…

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Funds to combat child exploitation added to reconciliation bill

The Homeland Security Department would get a new influx of funding to investigate child exploitation cases, including to identify victims of sexual abuse material online, under the GOP budget reconciliation bill. The $108.5 million added in a substitute amendment Tuesday would support hiring additional investigators and forensic analysts within the department.…

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Another bill upping Capitol Police retirement age passes the House

For the second time in less than four weeks, the House passed a proposal that could raise the retirement age for Capitol Police officers, part of an effort to address persistent staffing issues that have plagued the agency. The House cleared a bill by voice vote Tuesday that could allow…

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House NIL bill gets benched

House Republican leaders have once again scrubbed plans to vote on legislation that would usher in substantial changes to college sports, leaving an uncertain path ahead. Attention is now turning to the Senate, where Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are reportedly preparing their own bipartisan proposal to…

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Trump backs Paxton over Cornyn in Texas runoff

President Donald Trump on Tuesday spurned four-term Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and endorsed his primary challenger, Ken Paxton, the firebrand state attorney general who’s been indicted and impeached and has positioned himself as a Trump-inspired disruptor. “Ken Paxton has gone through a lot, in many cases, very unfairly,…

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Blanche faces questions over DOJ ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche offered a staunch defense of a new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” on Tuesday, while Democrats condemned the effort as a slush fund aimed at funneling taxpayer money to supporters of President Donald Trump. A bipartisan group of lawmakers during a budget hearing on Capitol Hill…

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Cassidy’s defeat complicates Senate Health committee’s future

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s loss in the Louisiana Republican primary over the weekend puts the future of the powerful Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in flux. During his tenure as HELP chair, Cassidy has pushed legislative priorities such as a proposal to establish pre-funded health savings accounts for people on…

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GOP support for ballroom security funding gets wobbly

A key senator suggested Monday that Republicans may be prepared to ditch security funding connected to plans for a White House ballroom in a reconciliation bill focused on immigration enforcement. Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the $1 billion in Secret Service funding, which has drawn concerns from several…

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Michigan pigment maker could benefit from highway bill provision

A Michigan manufacturer stands to become the U.S. government’s preferred supplier of yellow pigment used in road and highway markings across the country if a provision in the House’s sweeping surface transportation reauthorization bill becomes law. Section 1328 — on page 270 of the 1,005-page text released Sunday — would…

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At the Races: The revenge tour continues

Welcome to a special edition of At the Races! Throughout the 2026 primary season, watch for these updates from the CQ Roll Call campaign team on what you need to know for election day. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Daniela Altimari and…

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