The 2026 midterms will prove crucial to Democrats and Republicans as both chambers of Congress hang in the balance.

The Senate voted Wednesday to approve procedural changes that allow it to take up three joint resolutions that would vacate EPA waivers.

The Republican-led Senate on Thursday overturned several key Biden-era waivers allowing California to set its own vehicle emissions, a major blow to that state’s effort to regulate pollution from cars and trucks that could have broad environmental impacts for the rest of the country.

The state Senate on Wednesday attached the proposal to its $61 million budget plan, in effect voting to diffuse a power the Legislature has long enjoyed.

The Senate, in a first, used a fast-track procedure Thursday to nullify an EPA emissions waiver for California.

Senate Republicans are warning Russia that they’re prepared to pass punishing sanctions if President Vladimir Putin refuses to engage in ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine or breaches an eventual agreement.

House Republicans passed Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget early Thursday, advancing a reconciliation package to the Senate that had been jammed through committee hearings held largely in the dead of night.

At the center of the sweeping bill is trillions in tax cuts, which Republicans aim to partially offset through changes to safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP.