Senators are set to weigh in this week on Trump administration proposals to overhaul parts of the Justice Department and cut funding for key federal law enforcement agencies.
The administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request seeks to end the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a separate component, wipe away the Office on Violence Against Women’s status as a separate office and cut appropriated funding for the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Senate appropriators are expected to have their say Thursday with the scheduled release of the fiscal 2026 Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations draft bill, an indicator of how much deference GOP appropriators will afford to the administration’s plans to overhaul the Justice Department.
