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Congressional Republicans return from their two-week recess facing the herculean task of finding agreement on a budget reconciliation bill that can enact President Donald Trump’s tax and spending priorities. USDA’s top trade nominee will get his confirmation hearing. The House GOP also is taking aim at California climate waivers and an endangered species designation.

House GOP leaders will try to win passage of the Senate-passed budget framework over opposition of deficit hawks this week, and lawmakers will get a chance to vent their concerns about the market turmoil unleashed by President Donald Trump’s stiff new tariffs. You'll find a full list of hearings and events scheduled for this week.

President Donald Trump this week is set to unveil his reciprocal tariffs on U.S trading partners, while in Congress Republicans try to show some progress on his key legislative priorities.

USDA is lowering its estimates of global corn and soybean stocks in a report that doesn’t account yet for the impact of reciprocal tariffs or of new duties on Canada and Mexico that President Donald Trump plans for April.

Tom Schultz, former director of the Idaho Department of Lands, was named chief of the U.S. Forest Service. He succeeds Randy Moore, who announced his retirement this week, citing the challenges of the 'significant transformation' of the federal government.

The House GOP kept enough Republicans in line to advance a budget plan that’s aimed at passing all of President Donald Trump’s spending and tax priorities in one giant package. But House and Senate Republicans are far apart on both strategy and details for the budget reconciliation process. 

House Republicans try to agree on a grand plan for enacting President Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans this week, while the Senate GOP is opting for a Plan B, a smaller budget plan that leaves more the costliest issues for later. The Senate is set to consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to be secretary of health and human services, and Brooke Rollins' nomination to be secretary of agriculture.

Former President Donald Trump, making his third acceptance speech since 2016, made sweeping promises Thursday night to protect American jobs from foreign competition, abolish the Biden administration’s “Green New Scam” clean energy policies and end illegal immigration.

The Republican National Convention kicks off Monday in Milwaukee in the wake of this weekend’s assassination attempt, as the GOP and former President Donald Trump could to have an even bigger audience than might have previously been expected for the event’s economic and immigration messages.