House Pushes Four Spending Bills as Smith Testimony Highlights Partisan Rift

House lawmakers moved four fiscal 2026 spending bills forward—including a DHS package with ICE funding—setting up final votes before the Jan. 30 funding deadline. On the same day, former DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee, with Republicans pressing him on procedure while Democrats defended the prosecutions against Trump. Trump weighed in from Davos and on Truth Social as lawmakers also cleared a path for amendments to the funding package, created an ethanol policy working group to placate farm-state Republicans, and overturned a Senate policy on data-seizure payouts; Capitol Police officers attended the Smith hearing.