Congress’ fight over government funding will kick into high gear this week, with lawmakers set to begin sparring over the Trump administration’s latest proposals for steep cuts and rescissions.
The White House is expected to send House and Senate appropriators a request to claw back more than $9 billion in already appropriated funding on Tuesday, just days after it shared new details about the agency cuts President Donald Trump requested in his “skinny” budget earlier this month.
Together, the rescissions package and the updated budget request represent the biggest test yet of Republicans’ ability to coalesce around some of the reductions proposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, including for a host of clean energy, climate and infrastructure programs.
House Republicans will begin marking up fiscal 2026 spending bills Thursday, and they will have to balance conflicting demands from various factions of their conference while keeping up momentum for their party-line tax, energy and national security bill.
