What Exactly Has This Republican Congress Achieved?: Editorial

June 11, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

After two years in charge of a unified federal government, what has the Republican Party accomplished? If current polling is any indication, not enough.

Last week, the Senate advanced a $70 billion budget reconciliation bill, passed Tuesday by the House of Representatives, that will mostly add to a glut of immigration funding. It was progress of a kind: Lawmakers nixed a proposed $1 billion for a new ballroom at the White House and extracted a promise from the administration to do away with a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that many worried would be used to reward the president’s allies. Beyond that? ...

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