Congress has sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March.
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...
Congressional leaders have unveiled a stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government funded through March 14 and provide more than $100 billion in emergency aid to help states and local communities recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters. The measure would p...
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...
December 23, 2024 Politics The spending bill that averted a shutdown shrank from more than 1,500 pages to just 100—here’s what was cut BYJason Ma December 21, 2024 Politics Despite missing deadline, Congress avoids government shutdown by passing spending bill without Trump’s debt ceiling ...
Under thebipartisan spending billthat passed both chambers of Congress on Friday, TikTok will be banned from government devices, underscoring the growing concern about the popular video-sharing app owned by China's ByteDance. The bill, which still has to be signed into law by President Joe Bide...
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...
Spending bill hits snag in CongressHERB JACKSON, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are under the gun to approve a short-term spending bill this week to avoid a government shutdown before the holidays. The continuing resolution has to be approved in the House and Senate by Friday at midnight. CBS News political