The big question on Capitol Hill this week is whether Senate Democrats agree to help kick off the appropriations process.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has set up a Tuesday test vote on taking up the first fiscal 2026 spending bill, the generally popular measure funding military construction projects and the Department of Veterans Affairs. But this is no normal time and it was not immediately clear if Thune would get the needed Democratic caucus votes to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster on the motion to proceed.
“We are going to need to get appropriations done. That will require some cooperation from Democrats, and hopefully they will be willing to make sure that the government is funded.” Thune said on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
