Monday, June 8th, 2026
Secure America: The Senate passed S.2 (52-47), which is the Immigration-Border Reconciliation bill. Under the bill, the Department of Homeland Security would receive $69.5 billion in multiyear funding. The legislation would also fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda through the end of his term while bypassing the Senate’s 60-vote threshold and the need to obtain Democratic support. The total includes $38.5 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $26 billion for Customs and Border Protection. All funds would remain available through fiscal 2029.
The final version dropped the requested $1 billion in Secret Service funds to support White House security upgrades related to President Trump’s ballroom project following objections from lawmakers. Lawmakers also extracted a pledge from the administration to scrap the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund.” The bill does not include restrictions on ICE officer tactics, including requiring agents to ban the wearing of face masks, and requiring them to wear body cameras and identification.
Iran War Powers: The House passed H.Con.Res.86 (215-208), which directs the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a congressional authorization for use of military force against Iran. The Republican-led House voted to halt the US war with Iran, breaking with President Donald Trump on a foreign conflict that is taking an escalating economic toll on Americans. Last month, a Senate resolution to end the war also advanced past a procedural hurdle for the first time, though that legislation hasn’t yet come to a formal vote.
Lebanon War Powers: The House failed to pass H.Con.Res.84 (324-92), which directs the President, under the War Powers Act, to remove U.S. Armed Forces from Lebanon. The resolution aims to halt U.S. military participation in and coordination of Israel's operations in Lebanon, invoking the 1973 War Powers Act to force a vote on unapproved foreign deployments.
Ukraine Aid and Russia Sanctions: The House passed H.R.2913 (226-195), which would authorize additional US security assistance and economic investment for Ukraine. It would also impose new financial sanctions and export restrictions on Russia for as long as it continues its invasion of Ukraine.
No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations: The House passed H.R.7726 (217-207), which mandates new restrictions and requirements aimed at minimizing fraudulent payments through the Child Care and Development Block Grant program. The bill would require additional federal reviews over how states administer their childcare assistance programs and bar states from receiving grant funds if their improper payment rate exceeds 5% for two consecutive years. Childcare providers who defraud childcare assistance grants or childcare food assistance would be permanently disbarred from receiving funds from either program. President Donald Trump and other Republicans have called for increased scrutiny over childcare assistance programs in recent months in response to allegations of fraud and misuse of funds against social services organizations in Minnesota that drew national attention
2027 Agriculture Funding: The House passed H.R.8646 (213-210), which outlines a $26.27 billion discretionary budget that funds USDA agricultural research, food safety inspections, domestic nutrition initiatives, and the FDA. The bill would also improve the “tracking system of foreign-owned land. While the bill boosts funding for school lunch and breakfast programs, agricultural research, and state and local food safety inspections, it reduces funding for the Farm Service Agency, rural wastewater and businesses development grants, and the Food for Peace Program. It also resets WIC spending to pre-pandemic levels.
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Rule: The Senate failed to move forward on S.J.Res.188 (46-53), which would have restored stricter emissions standards for coal- and oil-fired power plants, imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 and then were repealed by the Trump administration. The joint resolution would have reinstated an EPA rule that would lower the amount of allowable emissions of filterable particulate matter from coal power and mercury from lignite coal power.
American Battlefield Protection Program: The House passed H.R.7618, which extends through FY2036 three National Park Service (NPS) grant programs that preserve U.S. battlefields and requires the NPS to study additional sites for potential preservation.
ARTIST Act: The House passed S.254, which protects the cultural practices and livelihoods of Alaska Native handicraft producers. It prevents individual states from banning the sale or possession of legally produced marine mammal ivory, bone, and baleen.
