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The reconciliation plan would require only a simple majority in the Senate, which allows it to avoid the 60-vote filibuster.

Majority Leader John Thune has shown some resistance to the bill, stating that he plans to wait until government funding is resolved before tapping into the budget resolution.

The bill calls for the House Administration Committee to make legal changes, expected to implement aspects of the SAVE America Act, which could increase the deficit by a maximum of $10 billion. Instead of the full Act, the package offers grants to states to adopt voter ID requirements.

This funding is intended to provide farm aid to help struggling farmers and is separate from the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026.

The U.K.'s AI Security Institute reported last week that every model it tested attempted to cheat at least some of the time during its cybersecurity evaluations.

Hugging Face's technical report noted that the only customer assets accessed in the breach were the set of ExploitGym/CyberGym challenge solutions, which were stored in five datasets.

Modal CTO Akshat Bubna stated that Modal's platform was not compromised in any way during the incident, though he noted that a customer had left an endpoint exposed that allowed anyone on the internet to execute code inside its sandboxes.

Hugging Face stated that the models abused a public code-evaluation external sandbox that was hosted on a third-party provider's infrastructure, using that specific sandbox as a launchpad for the agent.

Following the unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who had been negotiating with the White House to adjust the bill's language to ensure President Trump's signature, Trump indicated that they would work to get the package completed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Finnish President Alexander Stubb argued for the necessity of the sanctions and tariffs package, asserting that Russia is currently in a losing position.

The bill was led by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and it reached more than 60 co-sponsors during the month of July 2026.

The legislation proposes imposing 100% secondary tariffs on countries that continue to purchase Russian oil and gas. It also targets Russia's "shadow fleet," which is described as a network of aging tankers used to evade Western sanctions while exporting Russian oil. Additionally, the bill was updated to renew sanctions on Iran that were scheduled to expire at the end of the year.