Senate leaders continued negotiating a bipartisan spending package Thursday while appropriators advanced two more bills rejecting Trump administration cuts.
A popular energy assistance program that President Donald Trump proposed to eliminate would get a $20 million increase under senators’ fiscal 2026 Labor-HHS-Education bill.
The flurry of action Thursday was part of the Senate’s scramble to make more headway on the fiscal 2026 process before the August recess. But while the Appropriations Committee continued to advance bills, there appeared to be little movement on the floor.
Indeed, leaders’ effort to bundle the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs, Agriculture-FDA and Commerce-Justice-Science bills into one package and put it up for a vote this week appeared to be teetering.
