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Trump pumps brakes on Senate budget plan, delaying GOP SAVE America push

August 8, 2026 7:25am EDT / Fox News

Budget reconciliation and defense spending were also delayed, with lawmakers not returning until mid-September

By Alex Miller, Fox News

Trump demands Senate vote on the ‘Save America Act’

Fox News’ chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the Senate’s race to clear a packed agenda before the recess, including President Donald Trump’s demand for a vote on the ‘Save America Act’ amid legislative hurdles. As the Senate faces a ticking clock to clear a packed legislative agenda, senators debate the path forward.

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Senate Republicans may have left Washington on a high note early Saturday morning, but they left one major item on the table: passing the SAVE America Act.

It’s the bill that has dominated President Donald Trump’s attention span and garnered heavy criticism against Republicans in the upper chamber for not being able to pass it.

And despite guarantees from some in the party that they would object to leaving until Sept. in order to pass the voter integrity bill, lawmakers’ suitcases were packed and ready for the airport. It’s one of several agenda items that didn’t get finished prior to the lawmakers’ vacation, and one that will have to wait until next month. But its biggest proponents appear okay with that outcome.

SCHUMER CAVES, HANDS REPUBLICANS SHUTDOWN WIN AFTER MONTHS OF UNCERTAINTY

President Donald Trump departs following a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. Trump hosted Team USA Olympians who competed in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.(Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“We’re not dropping SAVE,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said. “It’s a matter of time.”

Time between now and the end of this session of Congress will be an increasingly short commodity to come by.

The Senate returns the third week of September and will be tasked with moving two massive bills dealing with cryptocurrency regulations and money in college sports, both of which didn’t make the cut during the upper chamber’s last week in town.

Then they’ll leave once again for nearly the entire month of October in preparation for midterm elections in early November.

SCHUMER SAID ‘DEMOCRATS SUPPORT VOTER ID’ — THEN EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT VOTED AGAINST GOP BILL

Another priority heavily pushed by Trump and the administration, taking another crack at the party line budget reconciliation process, was detoured, too.

That process is how Republicans hope to pass the SAVE America Act without Democrats getting the chance to block it with the filibuster. Republicans were ready to vote on the $150 billion budget blueprint drafted by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., until Trump intervened over concerns that it would fail.

The push was paused after Johnson, who just took over the Senate Budget Committee, Lee and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., huddled in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune after speaking with Trump.

Johnson said Trump agreed that the best path forward was to “just work diligently through August into September to do an actually better budget reconciliation bill.”

Republicans want to crank up the defense spending in their budget framework — Johnson said that War Secretary Pete Hegseth made a “very convincing case” to beef up the funding by $350 billion as the war in Iran continues and munitions dwindle.

Still, whether the gamble to incentivize states to take up portions of the SAVE America Act will work remains unknown, given that the Senate’s rules chief will ultimately decide if the provisions pass muster with reconciliation’s guardrails.

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Taking another shot at reconciliation that doesn’t include cost-of-living elements or affordability-minded provisions hasn’t been a popular subject among Senate Republicans, especially heading into midterms.

Thune acknowledged that there was an appetite among Republicans to use the legislative tool to muscle through defense funding and try to include elements of the SAVE America Act.

The top Senate Republican, unlike others in his conference, hasn’t been gung-ho about turning to reconciliation for a third time. That appeared to subtly change early Saturday morning.

“I think at some point, we’re going to need to do another reconciliation bill,” Thune said.

Meanwhile, Republicans were able to accomplish several items on their to-do list Saturday morning.

They passed a short-term funding extension until early December to take away Democrats’ ability to politicize another government shutdown, advanced a bone-crushing Russia sanctions package and confirmed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to lead the Department of Justice with the command of a Senate-confirmed cabinet member.

But Democrats blocked a voter ID bill from Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and hurdles remained for the massive, cryptocurrency bill known as the Clarity Act, and Sen. Ted Cruz’s, R-Texas, legislation going after Name Image and Likeness (NIL) funding in college sports.

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Perhaps the most glaring omission, however, was a vote on whether to cancel the August recess.

Lee had pushed for a full vote on the Senate floor as part of the Senate’s push to reach a broader agreement on several legislative items. Instead, he accepted a voice vote, uttering a quiet “no,” on the floor against the forthcoming recess.

“Would it have been better if we had passed SAVE America already? Absolutely,” Lee said. “Would it be better if we had the votes right now? Yes. We, for a variety of reasons, don’t have the wherewithal to pass it right now.”

“No, no, no, [its] Democrats,” Johnson interjected. “The reason is Democrats. Democrats refuse to vote for any kind of voter integrity measure, that’s just the reality of the situation.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Hawaii primary is latest to pit Democratic incumbent against younger, more left-wing challenger

2026-08-08 10:03 AM UTC / Reuters

By Andy Sullivan

August 8, 2026 10:03 AM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) asks a question as U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies on the Justice Department’s budget proposal before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

• Summary

• Honolulu-based House district is seen as safely Democratic in November
• Case says losing his seat could mean fewer federal dollars for Hawaii
• Hawaii lets ​independent and Republican voters cast ballots in primary contests

Aug 8 (Reuters) – The ideological divide roiling U.S. Democratic politics moves to Hawaii on Saturday, where voters will decide whether to nominate a seasoned lawmaker to another ​term in Congress or pick a younger, more left-wing candidate.

U.S. ​Representative Ed Case, 73, faces a challenge for the ⁠Democratic nomination from Jarrett Keohokalole, 43, a state senator who has ​argued the incumbent is too close to corporate interests.

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Keohokalole is also calling ​for expanded government healthcare and limiting aid to Israel, in line with other progressive candidates who have won Democratic primaries in Michigan, New York and Colorado this year.

The outcome will ​not likely affect Democrats’ chances of winning control of the House ​of Representatives in the November midterm elections, as the Honolulu-based district is seen ‌as ⁠safely Democratic.

Case has held the seat since 2019, and also served in the House between 2002 and 2007. A moderate who holds a senior position on a key spending committee, Case has argued that ​Hawaii will attract ​fewer federal dollars ⁠if he is not reelected. Keohokalole has highlighted Case’s campaign donations from businesses to argue he has ​lost touch with voters.

If he wins, Keohokalole would be ​the ⁠latest progressive challenger to capitalize on Democratic voters’ frustration with party leaders who they view as too old, too close to Israel, and unable ⁠to ​effectively oppose Republican President Donald Trump. But Case ​could draw support from independent and Republican voters, who can vote in primary contests ​in Hawaii.

Reporting by Andy Sullivan. Editing by Michael Learmonth and Rod Nickel

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

布兰奇扫清参议院障碍 出任美国司法部长

2026年8月8日 17:39 / 联合早报

8月8日，美国代司法部长托德·布兰奇在华盛顿特区司法部出席新闻发布会。 （路透社）

美国代司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）在参议院投票中获共和党人支持，以微弱优势确认成为司法部长。

彭博社报道，参议院星期六（8月8日）的投票结果为50比49票，此次投票结束了长达数周的关于特朗普选择其前私人律师领导司法部的风波。

共和党参议员中，缅因州议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）和阿拉斯加州议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基（Lisa Murkowski）与民主党人一起投了反对票，并表示将反对布兰奇的任命。

而另一名共和党参议员、路易斯安那州参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy）星期五宣布支持布兰奇，为特朗普的提名人选出任司法部长投下了关键一票。

布兰奇当选后在社交媒体X上发文说，对于特朗普总统信任并委任他担任司法部长、领导这个伟大的国家深感荣幸。他也向参议院以及“司法部那些尽职尽责的公职人员”表示感谢。

现年52岁的布兰奇自今年4月以来一直担任代理司法部长。在进入政府部门前，他曾作为特朗普的私人律师参与多起刑事审判。为此，特朗普提名布兰奇出任司法部长，引发了他第二任期内最具争议的内阁人事任命之争。

今年4月，特朗普因前司法部长帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi）在执行施政纲领过程中屡屡失职，将他解雇。

布兰奇扫清参议院障碍 出任美国司法部长

2026年8月8日 17:39 / 联合早报

8月8日，美国代司法部长托德·布兰奇在华盛顿特区司法部出席新闻发布会。 （路透社）

美国代司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）在参议院投票中获共和党人支持，以微弱优势确认成为司法部长。

彭博社报道，参议院星期六（8月8日）的投票结果为50比49票，此次投票结束了长达数周的关于特朗普选择其前私人律师领导司法部的风波。

共和党参议员中，缅因州议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）和阿拉斯加州议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基（Lisa Murkowski）与民主党人一起投了反对票，并表示将反对布兰奇的任命。

而另一名共和党参议员、路易斯安那州参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy）星期五宣布支持布兰奇，为特朗普的提名人选出任司法部长投下了关键一票。

布兰奇当选后在社交媒体X上发文说，对于特朗普总统信任并委任他担任司法部长、领导这个伟大的国家深感荣幸。他也向参议院以及“司法部那些尽职尽责的公职人员”表示感谢。

现年52岁的布兰奇自今年4月以来一直担任代理司法部长。在进入政府部门前，他曾作为特朗普的私人律师参与多起刑事审判。为此，特朗普提名布兰奇出任司法部长，引发了他第二任期内最具争议的内阁人事任命之争。

今年4月，特朗普因前司法部长帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi）在执行施政纲领过程中屡屡失职，将他解雇。

不理最高法院裁决 特朗普再威胁开除美联储理事

2026年8月8日 17:50 / 联合早报

白宫本周致函美联储理事库克，要求她就涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈事件作出解释，并称特朗普考虑开除她。库克的律师表明将挑战白宫“毫无根据”的指控，捍卫库克的职位和美联储的历史角色。 （法新社）

（华盛顿综合电）美国总统特朗普再次威胁罢免美国联邦储备局理事库克，使特朗普和美联储围绕人事与货币政策独立性的冲突持续升级。

白宫本周致函库克（Lisa Cook），说特朗普正考虑将她免职，要求她在三周内就涉嫌房屋抵押贷款欺诈的指控作出回应，还指她可面对最高30年监禁的刑罚。

库克的律师星期五（8月7日）发表声明，驳斥白宫的指控“毫无根据”，强调白宫“没有充足理由将她免职”。律师表明将“挑战白宫的最新借口，以守护库克的职位和美联储的历史角色”。

库克是美联储历史上首位黑人女性理事。特朗普去年试图以涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈为由开除她，开创了美国总统寻求开除美联储理事的先例。库克否认指控，称特朗普是因为不满双方在利率与货币政策上的分歧而借故打压。

联邦最高法院今年6月裁决阻止特朗普这么做，但表明是基于程序理由，并未就库克是否构成特朗普所指的“严重过失”和“欺骗和潜在犯罪行为”作出实质判决。

宾夕法尼亚大学法律系教授康迪—布朗（Peter Conti-Brown）告诉路透社，最高法院的判决是基于程序，因此特朗普“以这种方式干预美联储并不让人意外”。

“任何党派的美联储观察家都看得出这背后的动机，明白这不过是找托词。”

哈塞特：沃什上任后常与特朗普谈论经济

特朗普此前多次抨击美联储前主席鲍威尔未及时降息，并一度威胁要将他解职。他任命的新主席沃什5月中上任以来维持利率不变，特朗普随后将施压重点转向前总统拜登任命的其他美联储理事。

白宫国家经济委员会主任哈塞特星期五接受彭博电视访问时说，沃什上任后，特朗普经常和他通电话讨论经济形势。

按华府与央行的互动惯例，沃什的主要对接人是财长贝森特和哈塞特。特朗普和沃什经常通话实属不寻常，引发市场对总统试图影响央行决策的顾虑。

不过哈塞特强调，他很肯定特朗普不会在利率决策上向沃什施压，“特朗普尊重美联储的独立性”。

Trump’s unfinished ballroom faces uncertain path after latest legal blow

2026-08-08T10:30:29.159Z / CNN

President Donald Trump has dug himself a hole.

The future of construction on his sprawling East Wing ballroom is uncertain after a divided appeals court ruled Friday that he is unlawfully constructing the project.

What happens next could be up to the nation’s highest court — to which Trump said he’d appeal — potentially Congress and maybe even his successor.

“There is no clear path to this being resolved one way or the other while he is president. The likelihood that we have a hole in the ground because of political realities — not because of construction realities — is very high through the end of his term,” said Greg Werkheiser, a historic preservationist and lawyer who is embroiled in a separate lawsuit with the White House over another Trump pursuit, an effort to paint the nearby Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

The ballroom — like many of Trump’s construction projects around Washington, DC — is unpopular with the public. But it’s a major priority for the president, who has championed it at every opportunity and been involved in design details big and small.

“The entire Complex, Military and all, is largely built, fabricated, and paid for. Much is already on site, or being delivered,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after Friday’s ruling, blasting the court and asking why the nation’s top historic preservation group didn’t sue before construction started.

Planning for the ballroom began in the early months of Trump’s second term, with the White House formally announcing it on July 31, 2025.

The announcement made no mention of demolishing the East Wing, which for decades served as headquarters for first ladies and their staff, nor did it frame the project as a national security imperative — an argument Trump didn’t begin making until February 2026.

In late October 2025, the East Wing was razed and workers began a monthslong excavation effort resulting in a very large hole in the ground. The National Trust for Historic Preservation launched a legal challenge in December.

In late February 2026, crews began work on the foundation, filling in that hole with the below-ground portion of the building, which will house a highly secretive underground bunker complex aimed at modernizing aging underground infrastructure.

So far, according to a CNN analysis of photos and floor plans, the above-ground construction of the ballroom has been limited to pouring heavily reinforced concrete columns, walls and floors. The areas where the concrete frame has been completed include new offices for the first lady, some of the kitchen and some entry halls. Above the ground floor, crews have built four towering walls, almost to the planned height of the building, and begun assembling formwork to pour the floor of the actual ballroom.

Construction has progressed at a rapid pace, but the new structure isn’t close to being occupiable.

As the scope of the project has evolved, so has the price tag. The ballroom was initially introduced at “approximately $200 million,” with Trump emphasizing it would be privately paid for as the cost ticked up to $300 and then $400 million.

Then this spring, Senate Republicans requested $1 billion that would go, in part, toward security related to the project, although that effort ultimately failed, with some in Trump’s own party worried about the optics of funding a ballroom while Americans are struggling. The funding picture became more complicated when a project summary, obtained by the Washington Post in June, estimated its price at $600 million, more than half of which would come from taxpayers.

The crux of the legal challenge isn’t the 90,000-square-foot structure, its placement atop the South Lawn or even the 2025 demolition of the historic East Wing. Instead, it’s the processes Trump ignored along the way: bypassing congressional approval and breaking ground before required reviews and assessments were completed.

The president maintains the project isn’t subject to any oversight. But it’s become mired in a complicated legal battle without a clear resolution ahead.

This state of uncertainty, Werkheiser told CNN, “illustrates that the morass he’s gotten himself into with all these projects. It’s not that he can’t do them. It’s just that he refuses to do them legally, and that makes it that much more difficult for him to execute them than they would be if he just followed the rules in the first place.”

On Friday, the appeals court said Trump must stop construction until Congress approves the project, but the judges paused their ruling for two weeks so the administration could have a chance to appeal to the Supreme Court — which Trump vowed to do “immediately.” Once that request is in, the justices will have to decide whether they will let the lower-court ruling take effect for now.

Separately, the Supreme Court will also have to decide whether it will review the lower-court ruling against the project at all. Should the justices take up the case, recent divisions within the court’s conservative supermajority suggest that a win for Trump isn’t guaranteed.

Some White House officials have questioned what will happen if the Supreme Court declines to take up the case, but the overall sentiment from top legal advisers is that the administration is winning the case and it’s not time to be concerned yet, according to a person familiar with the matter.

If Trump secures a victory, construction could continue on a project whose completion he’s estimated by summer 2028, a few months before the end of his second term.

It’s also possible that the court finds Trump must secure congressional approval before the project can resume, which would set up a major political test for the president’s party. Approval would become especially unlikely if Democrats gain power of either chamber in the November midterms.

And public opinion isn’t on the president’s side: In a recent CNN poll, 58% of Americans said they were dissatisfied or angry about Trump’s projects around DC, like the ballroom and renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Trump began messaging the ballroom as a national security necessity in late February. He zeroed in on that message after Friday’s ruling, saying it’s “being built for the protection of our Country and, additionally, all future Presidents” and highlighting some of the features of the underground bunker, including bomb shelters, medical facilities and top-secret military facilities.

But the appeals court said Trump could continue work on the below-ground complex even while construction of the above-ground ballroom is paused, with the judges noting that the president could, for example, “put a fully protective covering over the underground construction and other exposed portions of the construction site” to ensure the bunker isn’t unprotected.

Experts suggested to CNN that even if ballroom construction is legally forced to come to a halt, work on the bunker could proceed to eliminate the national security threat Trump has warned exists and also shore up the hole from any health and safety hazards.

“Hypothetically, if you stop construction now, you could redesign this and have an underground facility and reconstruct the East Wing on top of it and just close off the site. There are other alternatives beyond completing the ballroom,” said Bryan Clark Green, an architectural historian who previously served on the National Capital Planning Commission, one of the review boards that approved the ballroom in April after being stacked with Trump loyalists.

Trump, a former real estate developer, has made construction his second job as president — one he believes is part of his legacy, sources familiar with his thinking have said.

“The thing I do best in life is build,” he told reporters during a May field trip to observe the ballroom construction.

The president lashed out at the appeals court repeatedly on Friday, underscoring the personal stakes as he cast the ruling as “a National Disgrace” and “horrendous, politically motivated, and unlawful.”

But in Friday’s majority opinion, DC Circuit Court Judges Patricia Millett, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, and Brad Garcia, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, placed the blame squarely on Trump.

“Any risk caused by the construction project and its multi-year timetable is overwhelmingly a problem of the Defendants’ own creation,” they wrote.

The judges continued: “The Defendants unilaterally and likely without lawful authority destroyed a large portion of the White House structure and dug an open pit in its place. Then, after commencing a lengthy construction project, they publicly announced to the world the vulnerabilities that self-chosen endeavor has created.”

不理最高法院裁决 特朗普再威胁开除美联储理事

2026年8月8日 17:50 / 联合早报

白宫本周致函美联储理事库克，要求她就涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈事件作出解释，并称特朗普考虑开除她。库克的律师表明将挑战白宫“毫无根据”的指控，捍卫库克的职位和美联储的历史角色。 （法新社）

（华盛顿综合电）美国总统特朗普再次威胁罢免美国联邦储备局理事库克，使特朗普和美联储围绕人事与货币政策独立性的冲突持续升级。

白宫本周致函库克（Lisa Cook），说特朗普正考虑将她免职，要求她在三周内就涉嫌房屋抵押贷款欺诈的指控作出回应，还指她可面对最高30年监禁的刑罚。

库克的律师星期五（8月7日）发表声明，驳斥白宫的指控“毫无根据”，强调白宫“没有充足理由将她免职”。律师表明将“挑战白宫的最新借口，以守护库克的职位和美联储的历史角色”。

库克是美联储历史上首位黑人女性理事。特朗普去年试图以涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈为由开除她，开创了美国总统寻求开除美联储理事的先例。库克否认指控，称特朗普是因为不满双方在利率与货币政策上的分歧而借故打压。

联邦最高法院今年6月裁决阻止特朗普这么做，但表明是基于程序理由，并未就库克是否构成特朗普所指的“严重过失”和“欺骗和潜在犯罪行为”作出实质判决。

宾夕法尼亚大学法律系教授康迪—布朗（Peter Conti-Brown）告诉路透社，最高法院的判决是基于程序，因此特朗普“以这种方式干预美联储并不让人意外”。

“任何党派的美联储观察家都看得出这背后的动机，明白这不过是找托词。”

哈塞特：沃什上任后常与特朗普谈论经济

特朗普此前多次抨击美联储前主席鲍威尔未及时降息，并一度威胁要将他解职。他任命的新主席沃什5月中上任以来维持利率不变，特朗普随后将施压重点转向前总统拜登任命的其他美联储理事。

白宫国家经济委员会主任哈塞特星期五接受彭博电视访问时说，沃什上任后，特朗普经常和他通电话讨论经济形势。

按华府与央行的互动惯例，沃什的主要对接人是财长贝森特和哈塞特。特朗普和沃什经常通话实属不寻常，引发市场对总统试图影响央行决策的顾虑。

不过哈塞特强调，他很肯定特朗普不会在利率决策上向沃什施压，“特朗普尊重美联储的独立性”。

发臭毁清澈加勒比海 马尾藻侵袭墨西哥重创旅游业

2026年8月8日 17:54 / 联合早报

墨西哥加勒比海旅游区遭大规模马尾藻（sargassum）侵袭，当地旅游业已受到冲击，一些商家因游客减少而缩减人手。

在墨西哥金塔纳罗奥州图卢姆镇（Tulum）岸外，原本清澈的加勒比海被大片褐色海藻覆盖。这些海藻腐烂后会发出恶臭，不少游客望而却步。

为遏制马尾藻蔓延，墨西哥海军出动27艘专用船只在近海打捞海藻。海军陆战队和地方政府人员今年上半年清理了逾10万公吨马尾藻，超越去年全年清理的9万多公吨。（法新社 ）

发臭毁清澈加勒比海 马尾藻侵袭墨西哥重创旅游业

2026年8月8日 17:54 / 联合早报

墨西哥加勒比海旅游区遭大规模马尾藻（sargassum）侵袭，当地旅游业已受到冲击，一些商家因游客减少而缩减人手。

在墨西哥金塔纳罗奥州图卢姆镇（Tulum）岸外，原本清澈的加勒比海被大片褐色海藻覆盖。这些海藻腐烂后会发出恶臭，不少游客望而却步。

为遏制马尾藻蔓延，墨西哥海军出动27艘专用船只在近海打捞海藻。海军陆战队和地方政府人员今年上半年清理了逾10万公吨马尾藻，超越去年全年清理的9万多公吨。（法新社 ）

U.S. Senate passes short-term funding bill to avert federal shutdown before election

2026-08-08 08:03:22 UTC / Reuters

By David Morgan

August 8, 2026 8:03 AM UTC Updated 3 hours ago

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WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S. Senate passed a temporary ​measure to fund federal agencies through ‌December 11 on Saturday, in a move intended to avert a crippling federal government shutdown ​weeks before the November midterm ​elections.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed ⁠its own short-term funding measure last ​month. The two chambers will have to ​resolve their differences before President Donald Trump can sign it into law before current funding ​expires on September 30 — less than ​five weeks before the November 3 congressional elections.

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Democrats said ‌the ⁠Senate version, in contrast to the House version, would prevent the Trump administration from reallocating funding to border security ​from other ​programs. ⁠It also includes language to allow funding adjustments for housing ​and food assistance programs.

The Senate ​measure ⁠would also temporarily block the White House budget office from implementing a new ⁠rule ​giving political appointees control ​over hundreds of billions of dollars in grant money.

Reporting ​by David Morgan; editing by Philippa Fletcher

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