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Pentagon Chief Calls on Congress to Pass Spending Bill on Time More Reuters FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a news briefing after participating a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 16, 2...
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 Biden...
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...
However, the EPA is also set to receive more than $100 billion from federal spending bills like the Inflation Reduction Act over the next few years, E&E News reported. Energy Department The appropriations bill allocates more than $46 billion to the Energy Department. ...
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'...
In the end, Johnson reached a deal with Democrats that largely mirrored what McCarthy had agreed to months earlier. Instead of one large spending bill, the funding was split into two packages, keeping the government open until October.
Congress also approved a one-week stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown at midnight and give Trump time to sign the sweeping legislation. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a key negotiator, said on CNBC on Monday morning that the direct payments would begin ...
On Monday, Democratic leaders announced they are includingthe debt ceiling in the stopgap spending billto keep the government running into December. The move would suspend the debt limit through December 2022, meaning lawmakers would not need to address it until after the midterm election. ...
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 ...