WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March. The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative...
The bill is valued at 105.9 billion U.S. dollars. The package focuses mainly on aid to continue the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the measure's construction allocations is 2.8 billion U.S. dollars for Department of Defense (DOD) projects, of that, 751 million U.S. ...
Congress earlier this month passed a third stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government open through a pair of deadlines on March 1 and March 8. The United States' $34.4 trillion national debt is rapidly escalating and has prompted worries in part because of the...
But first, Congress must address government funding, since lawmakers only have until Dec. 20 to approve new spending. And although a shutdown remains unlikely, leaders will need to reach an agreement on a short-term funding measure in the weeks ahead. Funding the government In September, lawmak...
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget, recently said in a statement that the stopgap spending bill will hopefully allow Congress to pass appropriations bills in the next few weeks before the con...
Congress passed a large spending package that includes a bill banning TikTok from being used on government devices and new filing fees for mergers.
Congress approved a one-week stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown and to give the president time to sign sweeping budgetary legislation. (Susan Walsh/AP) WASHINGTON — Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that would finally deliver long-sough...
In January, Congress approved a stopgap funding bill that would keep the government open into early March, buying lawmakers more time to finish the formal appropriations process for fiscal year 2024, which began on Oct. 1, 2023. Congress previously approved stopgap funding measures in September and...
Line-Item Veto: The Best Response When Congress Passes One Spending Bill a Year, The There has never been a prop used in a State of the Union address quite like the one President Ronald Reagan used in 1988. He pointed to a stack of paper several inches thick. The stack was the year'...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday night passed a legislation on spending and border security to avert another government shutdown, hours after the bill was approved by the Senate. The bill now goes to the desk of President Donald Trump. White House ...