Capitol agenda: Shutdown anxieties, reconciliation problems, Vought all-nighter

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  Trump's sweeping agenda is hitting legal roadblocks

  The courts are slamming the brakes on some of President Donald Trump's efforts to quickly trim and transform the federal government.
  
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• Leaders squabble, appropriators stoic as shutdown deadline approaches

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  If Alex Bregman and Pete Alonso can't get the deals they want, what does that mean for MLB free agency as a whole?
  
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• Mike Johnson says Democrats 'unresponsive' ahead of shutdown deadline

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• Capitol agenda: Battle of the budgets coming next week

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  Senate Confirms Russell Vought as Office of Management and Budget Director

  Mr. Vought, an architect of Project 2025 who served in the first Trump administration, will be at the center of President Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.
  
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• Johnson urges Senate to wait for House to "do its work" on Trump agenda

  House Republicans met for several hours with Trump Thursday, after GOP senators planned move forward with their own plan to enact Trump's priorities.
  
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• Nebraska government system shutdown disrupts the Legislature, DMV and other offices

  A systemwide outage of state government computers shut down everything from the work of the Legislature to driver’s licensing offices for several hours
  
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• Johnson aims to announce GOP agenda framework on Friday, including permanent tax cuts

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• Capitol agenda: The rundown on reconciliation, Vought vote, Netanyahu visit

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  Fiji rugby director sacked four days into job after claiming women’s team have ‘gay problem’

  The Fiji Rugby Union’s director of rugby has been sacked just four days into her new role after saying the women’s team had a “gay problem”.
  
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• Russ Vought confirmed as White House budget chief

  Democrats fought the OMB nominee's confirmation, elevating a little-known agency head to the national spotlight amid larger anxieties about the fate of congressional spending authority.
  
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• Inside the Elon Musk-Jim Jordan ‘mind meld’ shaking up Capitol Hill

  Musk has a White House office and growing pull across federal agencies. Now he's burrowed into the House Judiciary Committee.
  
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