Back in Session

Congress returned to a mountain Capitol Hill of work after its six-week summer vacay.

Topping the pile: avoiding a government shutdown before October 1. President Trump wants to cut $4.9B in previously approved foreign aid as part of another “rescissions” spending package; Democrats want to restore funds previously nixed from Medicaid. Both parties will need to get off their high elephants and donkeys to get the 60 Senate ayes needed to pass a bill. 

Meanwhile, representatives are making a rare bipartisan push to release the Epstein files, aiming to end Congress’s pre-break standoff.

There’s plenty else on the agenda, including:

• The Senate weighing in on Trump federalizing the D.C. police
• GOP senators’ plan to speed up the approval process for Trump’s 100+ federal nominees
• And a potential House vote to ban congressional stock trading

Verse to consider whether you have a mountain of paperwork, a mountain of laundry, or a literal mountain ahead of you today… “Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.”
Colossians 3:22–24 (CSB) (read full passage)