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Congress will return to Washington, DC, next week in a deadlock to wrap up the work before the end of the year, to arrest the bleasling, who often destroys the hill.

Both chambers will have three working weeks before escaping to the growing hole in Washington in their states and districts. And lawmakers have other big challenges in the rest of the year to overcome.

Perhaps the biggest legal battle looming will be the operators who are approaching the peak of expired funding, which dominated the government shutdown that just ended.

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Neither case has produced a comprehensive plan on how to deal with the funding, although some Republican solutions, like flooding funding into health savings accounts (HSAS), have taken hold.

Senior Leader of the Senate John tune, Rs.d.

Tune noted that the “one thing that unites” the GOP is the belief that funding needs to be reformed and that health care costs need to be addressed.

“I think the argument that’s available is a big problem,” Thune said. “I think it’s been enhanced by the way Obamacare has been structured over the years, including the way it’s been developed by going directly to insurance companies and encouraging them to sign people up without their knowledge.”

And the white house also has its own plan, which was expected to be released earlier this week, but was divided again by Republicans who were famously reported on the proposed language.

When asked about the specifics of the plan, and it was struck down, a White House official told FOX News Digital that “there has never been a calculated health announcement [Monday’s] daily guidance. “

But the holes in the plan from President Donald Trump and the administration have encouraged some Democrats.

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President Donald Trump speaks before pardoning the National Turkey Thanksgiving during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, November 25, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Dn.h.

“I have had constructive discussions with many of my Republican colleagues who I believe want to do this,” Sheen said in a statement. “They understand that most of the people who benefit from these tax credits live in the death of the President, and that the President’s own opponents have emphasized the political urgency of the Republicans to work.”

But the Obamacare issue is not the only concern of Congress. Lawmakers are passing through the National Defense Authorization Act later this year, the Senate is considering another package of Trump nominees and another spending package is expected.

That four-bill package, which is expected to include defense, labor, and trade finance bills, would be a major step toward avoiding another federal funding deadline in Jan. 30, 2026.

Senate division chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, said earlier this month that there was also “interest on the house side” to move the bills.

“The more spending we’re able to pass, the better it’s going to be, the better it’s going to be delivered to the American people,” he said.

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Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

There are also other pressing issues that may have surprises before the end of the year, including how Congress will handle the government that will allow the government to renew the government can renew more than $500,000 if its records are requested without notice.

In promises before, the senate has a big bipartisan law that Trump seems to support, but there is a disconnect between the tune and the house Mike Johnson, R-LA., Where the law should come from.

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Thune believed it would be a better fit in the House given that it is a refinanced Bill, while Johnson warned that it would take time to pass the money in the lower chamber because of when it would have to be in various committees.

Some in the senate are already looking ahead to next year, when lawmakers will find themselves in full midterm election mode. Another crack at the budget restoration, the process used to pass the “marquee archbishop” is big, good, “but whether there is broad buy-in from Republicans who live in the air.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA.

“It’s really dumb,” Kennedy said. “Why don’t you take the opportunity to screw something up with 51 votes? That doesn’t mean your fellow Democrats can’t join us, but if they can’t join us.”