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Who Will Replace Lindsey Graham as Senate Budget Chair? COVID Vaccine Critic Ron Johnson Is Next in Line

Sen. Ron Johnson is expected to lead the Senate Budget Committee after Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, impacting major spending debates. Graham's final efforts focused on Saudi-Israel relations.

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Timeline at risk for next GOP reconciliation package

While lawmakers had been hoping to work this month on a third budget resolution that would set the framework for another filibuster-proof reconciliation bill, some suggested Wednesday that a budget blueprint might slip into July. “I don’t think we’ll do a markup before July,” said Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a…

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Berlin approves defence initiatives as domestic industry receives drone and frigate deals

New combat drones are planned for use by the so-called Lithuania Brigade, a unit of around 5,000 soldiers who guarantee the defence and security of NATO's eastern flank until the end of 2027.

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Reconciliation bill preparations get underway despite doubts

Work on the second reconciliation bill of the 119th Congress took a baby step forward Wednesday as the House and Senate Budget Committee chairs met to review plans for the first step in the process: drafting a budget resolution. Despite considerable doubts among Republicans that they can unify for a…

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To save Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ Republicans disregard the math

ANALYSIS: Analysis: The leadership doesn’t like the debt-exploding numbers of Donald Trump’s proposal exposed by the Congressional Budget Office, Eric Garcia writes

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GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback - Roll Call

House Republicans appeared stuck in reconciliation limbo as of Wednesday morning with no changes to the text ready to be unveiled, after an all-night Rules Committee session.

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House Budget panel approves reconciliation package on second try - Roll Call

Four House Freedom Caucus members on the Budget Committee who held up the reconciliation package last week reversed course late Sunday night.

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Conservative lawmakers block Trump's 'big, beautiful' tax-cut bill in major setback

A handful of hard-right lawmakers joined all Democrats in voting against a package of tax breaks and spending cuts, insisting on steeper cuts to Medicaid and green energy tax breaks.

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Weekend do-over planned for 'big, beautiful' budget package - Roll Call

The House Budget Committee plans to try again Sunday night to advance the GOP reconciliation package after four Republican dissenters torpedoed the measure at a markup Friday.

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GOP leaders try to keep Friday reconciliation markup on track - Roll Call

House Republicans’ “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill has a Texas-sized problem as it heads to the Budget Committee for a Friday markup.

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Firebrand Vought confirmed as White House budget director - Roll Call

Russ Vought will be White House budget director for the second time after a party-line confirmation vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.

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Spratt, longtime top Budget panel Democrat, dies at 82 - Roll Call

Democratic Ex-Rep. John M. Spratt Jr., the former House Budget Committee chairman, died Saturday at the age of 82.

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Proxy voting for new parents among changes pitched to House Rules panel - Roll Call

At a “member day” hearing, lawmakers floated a wide range of ideas to change how the House operates, with an eye toward the next Congress.

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City Council OKs spending another $34.5 million on burgeoning migrant crisis

Alderpersons OK’d a $33 million Homeland Security grant to care for asylum-seekers and also agreed to spend $1.5 million in tax increment financing dollars to buy a 10.7-acre property formerly used by the Marine Corps and convert it into a shelter for up to 550 migrants.

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Trump’s Hill backers often voted like DeSantis on entitlements - Roll Call

Trump’s has targeted DeSantis’ congressional votes that endorsed changes in seniors' benefits. Some Trump backers voted the same way, however.

Tribune News Service

Markups? Floor votes? Senate appropriators say ‘yes we can’

WASHINGTON — New Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., knows that returning the chamber’s appropriations process to regular order “won’t be a walk in the park,” as she said during a news conference last week.

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