Additionally, a Biggs amendment would require an annual Pentagon audit and cut the Defense Department budget by 0.5% if it fails. Conversely, theSenate defense authorization bill includes nonbinding language that calls for a military spending increasebeyond the$886 billion laid out in the de...
The House on Thursday passed an $839 defense authorization act bill for the 2023 fiscal year, $37 billion beyond what President Biden requested in his budget. The Senate still needs to vote on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act before the two bills can be reconciled. The ...
The House approved a bill that would create dozens of additional judicial seats over the next several years, sending it to President Biden’s desk after the administration levied a veto threat.
President Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the 1994 ban passed, has long called for it to once again be law. "Assault weapons need to be banned," the president said earlier this month when hesigneda bipartisan gun control bill into law. "I'm determined to ba...
President Biden intends to veto the House's defense appropriations bill if, in the unlikely event, that is the final version he is presented by Congress, according to a statement from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The House Rules Committee is scheduled to consider the bill ...
Washington —The White House said Tuesday that it "strongly opposes"House Republicans' billthat would lift the debt ceiling into 2024 but slash federal spending, and warned that President Biden would veto the proposal if it were to land on his desk. ...
China Bill Delayed in U.S. House Amid Partisan Wrangling More Reuters FILE PHOTO: The People's Republic of China flag and the U.S. flag fly on a lamp post along Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol in Washington during then-Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit, January 18, ...
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White House Acting Budget Director Shalanda Young urged Congress to send the legislation to Mr. Biden for his signature "without delay." "The bipartisan funding bill is proof that both parties can come together to deliver for the American people and advance critical national priorities," she said...
The legislation will now need to be passed by the Senate before it can be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. What’s in the bill: In addition to suspending the debt limit through the 2024 election, the bill caps non-defense spending, expands work requirements for some ...