TPPA Weekly Washington Report – 05/05/25

House GOP leadership, still in search of consensus on its “Big, Beautiful Bill," holds up markups on reconciliation … Pentagon IG expands investigation into Signalgate … Trump ousts National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, replaces him temporarily (?) with Secretary of State Marco Rubio … Trump releases 2026 budget, with $163 billion in cuts to domestic discretionary spending and a whopping 13% INCREASE to national security spending … all this and more.