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Dear Friends: Though Congress remains on recess this week, April should be an exceptionally busy month on the Hill. The President’s FY2027 budget request, released last week, seeks a major boost in defense spending (see Fellow Katina Slavkova’s recent article for more on this) coupled with cuts to many domestic
Tracking government funding, and particularly the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding has been unusually volatile and confusing this year. Given that Congress has already begun work on next year’s (FY27) appropriations bills with hearings (and the President’s budget has belatedly been released on April 3), it’s useful to nail
On the latest episode of Congress, Two Beers In, Laura, Matt, and Josh discuss the January/February spending deal to reopen the government, the Save Act, and the Supreme Court’s tariff decision and its implications for the separation of powers. https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Approps-Deal-and-Tariff-Feb-2026.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:53 — 41.9MB)Subscribe:
Earlier this week, I did a walk-through of the Congressional Record for a single day in the House. We covered the call to order, morning-hour debate, recesses, the prayer-journal-pledge, one-minute speeches, suspensions of the rules, voting, the yeas and nays, postponement, official communications to the House, record votes, special order
In early January, President Trump announced that his administration will ask Congress to approve a record $1.5 trillion defense budget for fiscal year 2027. Beyond the sticker shock, recent reports have identified that the Pentagon isn’t quite sure how they’d even spend that much money. It’s easy to get overwhelmed
One thing that confuses a lot of people—and also happens to be pretty hard to get a good layman’s explanation of on the internet—is what exactly is happening on the House floor day-to-day. Honestly, the easiest way to get the rhythm of the House is to actually just sit down
Mike Johnson has had a rough time leading the House of Representatives. Under his speakership, Republicans set the record for the number of failed special rules (votes speakers use to bring bills to the floor), set the modern record for successful discharge petitions to bring bills to the floor over
Guest Post by Dr. Adriana Bankston, 2024-2025 AAAS-ASGCT Congressional Policy Fellow* This has not been a typical year for science in America. Going beyond the headlines is important to understand what policymakers, scientists, and scientific institutions have built over generations. America is a scientific powerhouse, with federal funding fueling research
Matt and Josh sit down with Mark, who retires at the end of the month, to discuss his winding career in and around Congress. Mark will be hanging around but he’ll be sorely missed here at GAI. https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Mark-retirement-pod.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:03 — 79.8MB)Subscribe: RSS |
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