TAX NEWS: Treasury Department and a downsized IRS face a ‘perfect storm’ as taxpayers and employers seek details regarding Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill" bloomberg.com/news/articles/… with Caitlin Reilly

Bloomberg Government Jack Fitzpatrick 🗞️ ... Speaker Johnson also told Maeve Sheehey how he plans to quash the Epstein Files rebellion that halted legislative action in the House this week: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Bloomberg Government Jack Fitzpatrick 🗞️ Maeve Sheehey ... and he told Ellen M. Gilmer why it is too soon to game out a path for a Republican bill that would overhaul the US immigration system: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Wow — this Epstein subpoena motion is agreed to 8-2 with Republican support

House appropriators are putting off their markup of the Commerce-Justice-Science funding bill, which was scheduled for tomorrow, Chairman Tom Cole tells reporters. Cites attendance issues in both parties. House is leaving for August recess.

Spotted at the White House today: Mike Lindell.

Senators are following through on the plan to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. After rescinding old funds, now the Senate's fiscal 2026 funding bill does not include any money for the CPB, Sen. Patty Murray says. Calls the defunding of CPB "a shameful reality."

NIH would get $48.7B in FY 2026, a $400 million increase, under the Senate labor-H bill, rejecting Trump’s proposal to cut ~$18B in medical research, Jack Fitzpatrick 🗞️ reports Read more on from Jack via Bloomberg Government on the Senate’s labor-HHS spending plan here news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…