Lawmakers will be discussing and debating budgets, appropriations and reconciliation this week — and the Senate may open a debate on regulating digital assets known as stablecoins.
When it comes to the budgeting matters, it’s going to be a complicated week on Capitol Hill.
Friday’s release of a “skinny”version of President Donald Trump’s budget request serves a prelude to fiscal 2026 appropriations hearings this week, all while House Republicans are continuing markups of a fiscal 2025 budget reconciliation bill. And some of the funding outlined in Trump’s budget blueprint would actually come through that reconciliation process. That’s especially true for the Department of Homeland Security.
