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WASHINGTON— Senate Republicans on Tuesday released a budget resolution aimed at unlocking the reconciliation process for a new immigration-enforcement funding bill, a procedural move that would allow the GOP to bypass a Democratic filibuster and advance tens of billions of dollars for ICE and Border Patrol with only a simple majority in the Senate.

WASHINGTON— With the Trump Administration’s FY 2027 budget proposal again putting pressure on federal community development programs, the Defense Credit Union Council is urging Senate appropriators to preserve full funding for the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, warning the program remains critical to credit unions serving military, veteran and underserved communities.

WASHINGTON— A federal labor union is pushing back against the CFPB's latest attempt to move forward with sweeping layoffs, telling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that any request to revive the agency’s reduction-in-force plan belongs first before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, whose injunction has been blocking mass job cuts, Law360 reported.

WASHINGTON— Kevin Warsh used his Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday to signal a more balance-sheet-focused Federal Reserve—telling senators he would protect the central bank’s independence, would not pre-commit to rate cuts and wants “robust” reforms that could matter directly to banks and credit unions through funding costs, securities portfolios and the pace of any future easing.

NAPERVILLE, Ill./RALEIGH, N.C.— FORUM52 said Alloya Corporate Federal Credit Union has agreed to serve as platform sponsor of its leadership network for the next two years, a move the organization said will help expand leadership development and peer collaboration resources for credit union executives, board members and emerging leaders.