Overview
- Only three of 12 annual spending bills are law and the current stopgap expires Jan. 30, raising the risk of a partial shutdown.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune plans to bring a five-bill minibus to the floor, a move already facing resistance over earmarks.
- House Democrats, joined by four Republicans, forced a vote on a three-year extension of the expired ACA premium subsidies over Speaker Mike Johnson’s objections.
- The Justice Department says up to a million additional Jeffrey Epstein–related files remain to be released and characterizes some Trump-referencing allegations as unfounded, and Newsday reports Senate Democrats will seek a War Powers vote after a reported U.S.-led ouster of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.
- The House GOP majority narrows with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene set to resign, as Democrats prepare an unofficial Jan. 6 committee hearing during Congress’s first week back.