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

Good afternoon.

You've got Emily DeSulva here and John Sini and the House and Senate are both going to be back in session this week after being gone.

It felt like longer than it was, but they were out all of last week to due to the Memorial Day recess.

Right now it's looking like kind of a two-month sprint between now and the August recess.

The House actually gets back this Wednesday.

But between now and kind of the beginning of August, they're talking about Congress taking up two reconciliation bills.

Of course, FY27 appropriations.

Surface transportation reauthorization, permitting reform is hanging out there.

There's talk of the farm bill, the annual defense authorization bill, um, all of that kind of uh coming to a head with some of these having September 30th deadlines.

Um when the Senate left right before the Memorial Day recess, they ended up canceling their vote a rama on the second reconciliation bill.

And I think we had PAL on that Monday.

Uh we thought they were going to be voting on it that week because uh President Trump was saying that he wanted it on his desk by June 1st.

That has not happened.

Um, they ended up pulling the bill and uh canceling votes.

And you may remember that's where the funding is for ICE and CBP, and that's what allowed Homeland Security to finally get funded.

Um was it April or May?

Uh, and so they're 70 billion dollars in this reconciliation bill for ICE and CBP.

Um, the bill stalled due to broad Republican opposition to kind of that anti-weaponization fund that President Trump announced um in May uh as part of the Justice Department settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS.

So then Senate Majority Leader Thune pulled the bill from the floor rather than risk passage of amendments targeting the fund during um the Votorama.

But earlier today, it sounds like there may be some shifting.

Um, I think the DOJ put out a statement saying it would abide by the district court ruling that blocked the weaponization fund.

So, you know, we may see some statements um from the White House.

I don't think we've seen anything just yet, but John, correct me if we have.

But this could be kind of the action that allows a path for reconciliation to move forward in the Senate.

Um Senate Republican leaders are targeting the end of this week to pass the bill.

But um, again, if if um it's true what what they're going to um to not move forward uh with the weaponization fund, that may be the way that they get that Republicans get the 50 votes.

Um, and then House Majority Leader Scalise has said the House will move the bill as soon as the Senate passes it.

Um, John, I'm not sure if you have anything to add there.

No, I mean I think you really nailed it on the head.

There are two outstanding items in the reconciliation package that prevented it getting passed before the memorial day break.

Um, the anti-weaponization fund that 17 1.776 billion dollars at the Department of Justice, and then additionally the one billion dollars that was supposed to be used for the White House ballroom.

Both of those provisions seem to be getting dropped from the ICE and CVP bill, which will then enable the Senate to move forward on it by the end of the week.

The House was supposed to be in session on Tuesday, and they canceled votes because of the lack of action from the Senate on the reconciliation bill.

So there's a chance that they get this across the finish line, and that will free up some of the congressional calendar for the rest of the work period and some of the outstanding issues that they still need to take care of beyond this.

Yeah.

And then as far as FY27 appropriations, the House has been moving forward on their spending bills, though mostly on party-line basis.

Subcommittees at this point have completed markups of 10 of the 12 bills.

The full committee has approved seven.

It passed 400 to 15.