Legislative Watch

Rival stopgaps a week apart, a $1.8 trillion ten-month deficit, a stalled NDAA, and Russia sanctions headed to the House — TIJ's weekly legislative tracker.

With both chambers in pro forma sessions, dueling continuing resolutions, a stalled NDAA, and new CBO deficit figures frame a compressed September before the Sept. 30 funding deadline.

With Congress in recess, the record left behind — two competing stopgap bills, a stalled $1.15T NDAA, and a widening prediction-market probe — defines September's fights.

Rival stopgap funding bills, a stalled defense authorization, a $275 billion battleship estimate, and a new oversight demand to McKinsey — the congressional record for August 18, 2026.

Daily congressional digest: the Senate's 90-6 stopgap vote, the 86-11 Russia-Iran sanctions package, Blanche confirmed 50-49, a failed voter-ID cloture vote, CBO's $2.1 trillion deficit projection, a stalled NDAA, and…

Pre-recess Senate votes on the stopgap, Russia-Iran sanctions, and the Blanche confirmation set up a high-stakes September. A digest from the official record.

The Senate’s 90-6 stopgap through Dec. 11, a farm bill stalled over SNAP error rates, NDAA limbo, and CBO’s $2.1 trillion deficit projection — this week’s legislative tracker.

CBO pegs the 10-month deficit at $1.8 trillion as Congress leaves a Dec. 11 stopgap, the Graham Russia-Iran sanctions bill and the FY27 NDAA unfinished. TIJ's daily congressional digest.

In a session that ran to nearly 5 a.m., the Senate passed a stopgap through December 11, cleared the Graham Russia sanctions bill 86-11, and confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney…

In a session that ran past 4 a.m., the Senate passed a stopgap funding bill 90-6, approved the Graham Russia sanctions act 86-11, and confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general…