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Anxiety over state gambling revenues and suspected insider trading have lawmakers threatening to clamp down on Kalshi, Polymarket and other platforms.

The strongest impetus for a deal -- the hourslong security lines at some U.S. airports -- is already dissipating.

Republicans opted for a fast-track "deem and pass" provision.

Paul hopes to carve out a libertarian lane in a party he says is shaped by populism.

It's still TBD whether a supplemental military funding request will come with the broader fiscal blueprint for fiscal 2027.

Speaker Mike Johnson is instead looking at a two-month funding punt that cannot pass the Senate.

"I'm really, really hopeful this doesn't turn into a boots-on-the-ground situation," said Arizona Rep. Eli Crane.

There's little certainty this plan, which rejects the Senate-passed deal, will bring an end to the extended agency shutdown.

The Senate-passed legislation "should be brought to the floor immediately," Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said.

House GOP leaders could be confronting an internal backlash on the Senate-passed bill.