House Republicans have again failed to advance the fiscal year 2024 defense appropriations bill, with several members of the GOP siding with Democrats to help to sink it by a vote of 212-216. Today marks thethird timeinrecent daysthat the House was unable to begin debate on the bill, which...
House Republicans have again failed to advance the fiscal year 2024 defense appropriations bill, with several members of the GOP siding with Democrats to help to sink it by a vote of 212-216. Today marks the third time in recent days that the House was unable to begin debate on the bill...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer arrives to speak with reporters after completing work to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2023.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Over ...
Although the president has the initial responsibility for determining the proposed level of appropriations, once estimates for the next fiscal year are submitted to Congress, a single budget bill is not enacted, but rather a number of appropriation bills for various departments and agencies are ...
Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), chair of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee, speaking on the House floor March 6, 2024. “We believe it’s important to reverse the out of control growth of the federal government and that is reflected in this agreement. The CJS bill scal...
The following is a transcript of an interview with House Appropriations Committee chair Rep. Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, that aired on April 21, 2024.
Civilian federal employees are still expected to receive an average 2.0% raise next year, after the House Appropriations Committee advanced a spending package Thursday that is silent of federal worker compensation. Last spring, President Biden turned heads by releasing a fis...
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Still, the Senate's coordination on the bills only intensifiesthe pressure on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who abandoned a plan to pass a defense funding bill — one of the 12 appropriations bills, and usually one of the least controversial — after mem...
Johnson and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have already negotiated overall spending amounts for defense and domestic programs. All that remains are specific allocations under individual spending bills — and the political backlash that may come from hard-right House Republicans. McHenry ...