Legionships return to the Capitol Hill after a month rest period with a large agenda, including a confrontation with President Trump’s candidates and the date of the government.
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Legionships return to the Capitol Hill this week after an extended rest period with a crowded tasks list, which leads efforts to prevent the government from closing when federal agencies financed at the end of the month.
The House of Representatives and the Senate are scheduled to come out in the week that comes out on September 22, which means that Congress has 14 legislative days either to conclude a deal from the two parties to extend financing or closing the government.
The legislators are expected to resort to a short -term financing bill, known as the ongoing decision, to the tidal agencies temporarily. But even the Stopgap bill will need support from the two parties.
A long -term financing solution will be more difficult to formulate. A major sub -committee at home Tuesday evening in the fiscal year 2026 will hold financing an offerPublished on Monday evening. The total estimated allocation provides $ 184.5 billion, or approximately 14 billion dollars less than the fiscal year 2025.
“This law gives priority to this bill for advanced biomedical research, and enhances our medical supply chains and vital youth infrastructure, and ensures support for rural hospitals and public health programs,” said Tom Cole, Chairman of the Board of Directors. statement. “With every scale, we reaffirm that making America healthy again is not just a logo, but a promise.”
The Democrats in Congress condemned the funding of the oblique proposal to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the financing of financial aid based on students and programs that support the health of the mother and the child.
“This law is an attack on the programs and services on which Americans depend at every stage of their lives,” the best Democrats in the committee, Representative Rosa Deloro, D-Kun. , He said In a statement.
Cooperation between the two parties needed to avoid closing was further by announcing the White House late last week of the “cancellation of the pocket” of $ 5 billion in external aid late. Senate Credit Speaker Susan Collins, R. Men, indicated this step as “illegal“Democrats in Congress says it is another example of the executive branch that cuts the power of the legislative branch.
“President Trump and his allies in Congress have already closed all parts of the government, through rescue operations and now through pocket rescue operations, unconstitutional and dangerous,” Dilawir Sens’ Konz NPR said. “If they continue in these efforts, I will not support the preservation of the government on September 30, because they already close it in illegal and inappropriate ways.”
As for the Democratic Leadership, the leader of the minority at the Senate Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. The Trump administration “launches a comprehensive war against the authority of the first congressional article and the constitutional balance of power.”
“Republicans in the Senate must decide: to defend the legislative branch or enable the Trump segment towards tyranny,” he said. letter For his colleagues on Tuesday morning.
It is worth noting that Shomer stressed that he and the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, “align our common priorities.” In March, Democrats in the House of Representatives were angry When Schumer announced his plans to present a major democratic voice that Republicans need to progress in the spending bill.
Jeffrez told his colleagues in his own message that the Democrats in the House of Representatives “have repeatedly made it clear that we are ready to pass a draft spending law from the two parties before the deadline.”
“However, you must meet any agreement of the American people’s needs in terms of their health, safety, national security and economic welfare. We will not pursue a party Republican legislation of rubber stamps that harm ordinary Americans and continue their unprecedented attack on health care.”
Although government financing is tall, it is just one of the provisions of legislators who compete with this month.
National Guard in the capital
While the House of Representatives Supervision Committee plans to present various bills in crime in the capital, The National Guard remains in the Capitol in the country.
Trump is legally allowed to impart the Federal character to the Capital Police Department for up to 30 days. It needs Congress to retain the control of this date, which is likely to be the subject of a discussion about the hill.
Legislators I heard fears from the voters During the August holiday that Trump does He achieved his threats to deploy the National Guard To other blue cities.
The nuclear go to Trump candidates
Senate members left the city in August, despite Trump pushed them to stay to address more assurances of his candidates. Now after their return, Senators will continue to discuss whether the rules will be made on how candidates are confirmed to expedite this process – the objections of Democrats.
The majority in the Senate, John Parasu, R and U, wrote in a Wall Street Journal “It is time to change the rules of confirmation of the Senate” due to democratic obstruction.
“Historically bad candidates deserve a historical level of scrutiny by Democrats in the Senate,” Respond Shomer on social media.
Epstein files
Republicans in the House of Representatives operated their summer vacation before the date specified in July when it threatened calls to issue detailed federal records related to the shameful funds and condemnation of sexual crime, Jeffrey Epstein by dividing the party. Sections are still a major issue as lawmakers return.
Actors Thomas Massi, RK, WRO Khanna, California extend this week to a draft law that requires the Trump administration to hand over all relevant Epstein case documents.
I am in the capital and I will present the discharge petition today, September 2, at approximately 2 pm when Congress is officially returned from the August holiday. At this stage, we can start collecting 218 signatures necessary to impose voting on the binding legislation to issue Epstein files.
– Thomas Massi (Ramthath Al -Ramtha) September 2, 2025
I told Khanna NPR Morning edition He is confident that they have votes.
“We have 12 Republicans who participated in their care, and we are very confident that we will get more than six Republicans to sign it,” he said. “This will force the full vote in the House of Representatives.”
He added: “If the house succeeds in that, this will be strong political pressure on the president to issue full files.”
Massi and Khanna will hold a press conference with the survivors of the abuse of Epstein on Wednesday.
The Supervisory Committee in the House of Representatives has received a file An initial batch of documents Regarding the investigation of the Ministry of Justice in Epstein in mid -August.