Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Separately, President Trump is expected to travel to the Netherlands to participate in NATO’s annual summit – this following U.S. targeted strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend. Iran has vowed to respond as world leaders seek to de-escalate the situation.
Senate Republicans hope to begin finalizing their revisions to the House-passed reconciliation package (H.R. 1). Later today, the Senate Finance Committee’s portion of the bill, which includes all of the Republicans’ tax and Medicaid priorities, will go before the parliamentarian for the Byrd bath process.
Although disagreements remain over the overall size of the package as well as a host of other issues – including Medicaid, repeal of certain renewable energy tax credits, and the SALT deduction limitation – Republican leadership intends for the Senate to begin initial votes on the package sometime this week, teeing up final passage for the end of the week or over the weekend. This ambitious timeline aligns with the President’s goal to sign the bill by July 4.
The House is scheduled to vote on the first fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill – the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs measure. The lower chamber will also hold votes on legislation that would make the Department of Homeland Security track attempted entries by undocumented immigrants who pose national security risks (H.R. 275) and deport immigrants convicted of a DUI (H.R. 875), as well as a resolution condemning the protests in Los Angeles earlier this month (H. Res. 516).
House appropriators will continue with the fiscal year 2026 government funding process, including markups for Agriculture-FDA, Homeland Security, and the Legislative Branch spending provisions.
The upper chamber will also resume consideration of Daniel Zimmerman to be assistant secretary of Defense, Paul Dabbar to be deputy secretary of Commerce, and Kenneth Kies to be assistant secretary of the Treasury.
Several of President Trump’s Cabinet secretaries will testify before Congress this week regarding their agencies’ budgetary requests for FY 2026.
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