Next week: Budget, abortion, and the FCC

Published September 30, 2017 1:00pm ET



Congress will start tackling the fiscal 2018 budgets next week, while the House votes on a bill to curb late-term abortions and the Senate confirms President Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Communications Commission.

Republicans are eager to pass tax reform and plan to hitch it to the fiscal 2018 budget resolution, which will allow them to use special rules that can be used to circumvent a filibuster by the Democrats.

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