While House appropriators move forward with their fiscal 2027 spending bills, the usually bipartisan Senate process has run into major roadblocks, with disputes over spending levels and amendments. CQ Roll Call’s Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley discuss the status of appropriations in both chambers, as well as the prospects for reconciliation progress and an Iran war supplemental funding bill.
In a recent address, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez encouraged undocumented immigrants to resist deportation efforts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Her comments have sparked a debate over the role of elected officials in immigration policy.
The government he led indulged in class warfare of the most spiteful kind.
What should one make of the president’s mounting obsession with the Reflecting Pool? On the surface, it’s ridiculous. Noting that the pool was full of algae and not reflecting as well as it should, President Donald Trump launched an expensive beautification effort — repainting the bottom and trying chemical treatments to treat the algae. The end…