Capitol Building is seen in Washington, U.S., August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipartisan negotiators in the U.S. Congress have reached agreement on the spending levels in the 12 bills that legislators would need to pass to avert a government...
In covering expenses of federal agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency through 2023, the omnibus bill includes more than $772 billion for non-defense programs and about $858 billion in defense spending, according to a bill summary from Sen. Patrick...
Stopgap spending bill fails in House McCarthy-backed bill to avoid government shutdown gets bipartisan rejection 05:38 Washington— The looming possibility of a government shutdown had hundreds of thousands of federal employees worried that they could go without pay if Congress had failed to reach...
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...
Congress has approved, with the first in September 2023 and the second in November. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, was unprecedentedly ousted from his post by conservative members of his own party after passin...
Congress passed a large spending package that includes a bill banning TikTok from being used on government devices and new filing fees for mergers.
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. ...
The one-week continuing resolution has given more time for the spending bill, which runs more than 4,000 pages, to be processed for Biden's signature. The massive spending package for fiscal year 2023 includes 772.5 billion dollars for non-defense, domestic programs, and 858 billion dollars in...
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...
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...