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US Senate GOP punts spending bill amid big split with Trump over settlement fund

WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a ra...

US Senate GOP punts immigration bill amid big split with Trump over settlement fund

WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a ra...

US Senate GOP punts immigration bill amid big split with Trump over settlement fund

WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a ra...

Reconcilation Bill Funding Top Trump Priorities Can't Reach Floor, Thune Sends Senate on Early Recess

General Assembly “Hot Topic” Bills as of the end of the 2026 Virginia Legislative Session

The 2026 General Assembly session adjourned sine die (meaning with no appointed day for resumption) on Saturday, March 14th, 2026. This was the 407th session of the Virginia Genera...

Senate Bolts For Memorial Day, Punts Bill Funding Immigration Enforcement Until June

by Nicole Silverio at CDN - The Senate will not send a Republican-led $72 billion reconciliation bill to fund federal immigration enforcement by President Donald Trump’s deadline....

Dave Cieslewicz: Is lame duck deal lame?

It looks like three guys on their way out wanted to exercise one last use of power. It was not egregious by any means. But it sure wasn’t visionary either.

Republicans cancel votes amid fight over Trump's ‘anti-weaponization' fund

Objections to the Trump administration’s controversial anti-weaponization fund prompted Senate Republican leaders on Thursday to punt a vote on a GOP package to fund ICE and Border...

Republicans battle over 'last chance' to enact Trump agenda

Senate Republicans are battling among themselves over the size and scope of a budget reconciliation bill that some GOP lawmakers argue is the “last chance” to enact President Trump...

US Senate GOP punts immigration bill amid big split with Trump over settlement fund

WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a ra...

Rep. Madison: Votes ‘no’ on lame duck surplus legislation

Bill spends most of state’s temporary $2.3B surplus on bad tax policy, unfair K-12 school funding system MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s legislature met today to consider LRB-6707/1, a...

House votes to renew foreign spy program and creates pathway to end DHS shutdown

The Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to renew a powerful foreign surveillance program and passed a Senate-approved measure that would jumpstart the process to fund ICE a...

Lame-Duck Republicans Who Don’t Owe Trump Anything

Washington Post: “One by one, Trump is putting an end to the political careers of lawmakers in his party that he deems, for reasons more personal than policy-oriented, to be aposta...

Backlash to Trump's $1.8B settlement fund delays GOP immigration bill

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, frustrated with the Whit...

Illinois General Assembly Spring 2026 End of Session Tracking

As the Illinois General Assembly draws closer to concluding its 2026 spring legislative session, there are a number of outstanding bills likely to be considered that would have a s...

Backlash to Trump's $1.8B settlement fund delays GOP immigration bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, frustrated with the...

Senate Bails Out Mike Johnson

“The Senate passed a 10-day FISA extension on Friday, sending it to President Donald Trump’s desk ahead of Monday’s deadline and averting a lapse in authority,” Punchbowl News repo...

Democrats Try to Twist Knife in Trump-GOP Tensions

Politico: “Now Democrats will look to the “vote-a-rama” process to crank up the pressure and squeeze vulnerable Republican incumbents on a range of Trump priorities and controversi...

Senate Republicans adopt budget resolution in late-night voting marathon

Senate Republicans adopted a budget resolution during a late-night voting marathon that lasted until early Thursday morning, setting the stage for Congress to vote next month on a...

Hmmm: House GOP Punts War Powers Vote to June

This week: Senate girds for budget vote-a-rama in busy week for Congress

WASHINGTON — The Senate faces an expected budget vote-a-rama this week as Republicans seek to start the process of funding immigration enforcement without the support of Democrats.

Congress back in session facing key funding and security deadlines

The House and Senate returned to session this week with deadlines looming on everything from DHS funding and a farm bill to an almost-expired national security and foreign intellig...

'Congress at its very best'- Lulus Law heads to Trumps desk after bipartisan push

'Congress at its very best'- Lulus Law heads to Trumps desk after bipartisan push

House Panel Moves 3 Priority Bills Toward Floor Vote

Politico: “House GOP leaders managed to finally clear a rule for the farm bill, a three-year FISA extension and a budget resolution for immigration enforcement spending, after a le...