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Supervisor Fortunato Boss.

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Let's start with the federal legislative update from CJ Lake.

Good afternoon.

You've got Emily DeSilva and John Assini here with CJ Lake.

But the House uh changed their vote schedule somewhat.

And so they are not coming in this week until Wednesday for votes at uh 12 noon, I believe.

And um there's a chance that they could be in uh well, I should say leadership is threatening that they could be in uh through part of the weekend because there is a push to get a reconciliation bill to President Trump um by June 1st.

Um so uh we'll move to budget reconciliation now.

The Senate is moving this week to pass the 72 billion dollar reconciliation bill, which of course would fund ICE and border patrol.

And once the Senate passes that bill, it would then go to the House for passage.

Um, the central complication remains the one billion Secret Service funding provision tied in part to security for the White House ballroom project.

Um over the weekend, the Senate parliamentarian ruled that the provision was out of order under the bird rule.

And Senate Republicans are working to redraft the language so that it fits kind of within the parameters.

Um Senate Democrats have pledged to challenge any revised version of the provision.

Now the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee uh will mark up its portion of the bill tomorrow, and then the Senate budget committee is set to report the bill on Wednesday.

Um it would then go to the full Senate for what's known as a voterama that would take place on Thursday.

Um, and of course, Senate Democrats will plan to force a number of recorded votes on affordability related amendments.

Um, and they will also focus on issues tied to the ballroom provision.

If the bill clears the Senate, um House leaders will then need to navigate kind of the thin margin that they're dealing with ahead of the recess.

So again, um, it wouldn't go to the House until at least Friday.

And so um that is why the House isn't even coming back for votes until this Wednesday.

John, I don't know if you have anything to add there on reconciliation.

No, I think the one thing that I would just mention is that the Senate is just trying to jam the House, and they're using all the control of the schedule that they have to their advantage, and then using that as a wedge up against the Memorial Day recess, knowing that there are campaign events that people are going to, there are vacations that are being planned, and they're really just trying to provide a little as little opportunity as possible for the House to do what the House has done in the past, which is totally screw things up.

So we'll see some fireworks at the markup at His GAC.

Um judiciary, interestingly, has the other part of the bill.

Um, they are not marking up at the committee level, nor are they supposed to be marking up at the budget committee level.

They are likely to incorporate the Homeland Security and the judiciary bills on the floor.

So that will shorten the amount of exposure that the judiciary parts have to uh examination, and also provide Democrats fewer opportunities to uh poke holes and make you know political points on the judiciary part.

So they're really rushing this process on budget reconciliation and trying to get it done before the June 1st deadline, which uh President Trump set several weeks ago.

Um, and then moving on to appropriations, the House is just continuing to uh mark up bills at subcommittee and then full committee level.

Um I think for our purposes, kind of the big one that we're focused on this week is transportation HUD.

Um, and that uh text is expected to be released on Wednesday with the subcommittee marking up on Thursday, and then full committee would take up the bill after the Memorial Day recess.

Um, so again, we will, you know, report on highlights from from that markup.

Um the committee also has hearings this week with acting attorney general Todd Blanche, acting labor secretary uh Keith Sonderling, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and then NIH director um I'm gonna butcher the last name.

Uh Jay Batcharaya, I believe.

But Jay Banachary, yeah.

There you go.

Um, and again, we've been waiting for the Senate to release its committee markup schedule.

Um, they have not.