These House GOP election proposals could end up in a reconciliation bill  —  The chair of the House committee overseeing elections is circulating a list of proposals to include in a budget reconciliation bill as Senate Republicans and the White House move to rev up the party-line process …

Capitol agenda: Reconciliation is revived, Thune says  —  It only took a five-week shutdown of a major Cabinet agency, but the GOP's reconciliation dreams have new life Tuesday morning.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in an interview Monday night that a brewing Homeland Security spending deal …

Senate Republicans believe they have a solution to reopen DHS and end airport chaos  —  The proposal would fund almost all of DHS, while leaving ICE and deportation operations for a separate filibuster-proof bill, in which they'd also try to pass pieces of the SAVE America Act.

The liberal case for voter ID  —  The SAVE Act is a bad bill, but voter ID is a good idea  —  The logic of voter ID laws has flipped, but the politics are still stuck in 2012.  —  There's a traditional story where Republicans seek to make it harder to vote so that the electorate skews to the highly educated.

Emerging DHS deal ‘acceptable,’ White House official says  —  President Donald Trump hasn't yet publicly weighed in on a brewing deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but a White House official said Tuesday morning the yet-to-be-finalized bipartisan agreement “seems to be an acceptable solution.”

Iran toughens negotiating stance amid mediation efforts, sources say  —  Iran's negotiating posture has hardened sharply since the war began, with the Revolutionary Guards exerting growing influence over decision-making, and it will demand significant concessions from the United States …

Traders placed $580mn in oil bets ahead of Donald Trump's social media post on Iran talks  —  Thousands of Brent and WTI contracts changed hands 15 minutes before president's message on Truth Social