House passes government funding package in first step toward averting shutdown Washington —The House approved a major funding package on Wednesday, taking a significant step toward a longer-term solution to the spending saga that has stretched on for months.Lawmakers voted 339 to 85 to approve th...
All House Democrats backed McCarthy's stopgap measure. While his agreement avoided a lapse in government funding, it triggered a backlash from far-right Republicans that ultimately cost him the gavel. The House was left without a speaker for three weeks and found itself effectively paralyzed. Thou...
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 256-167 to approve a $1.3 trillionrnspending bill that will fund the government through Sept. 30.rnThe vote came hours before the government was set to shut down withrnthe expiration of a short-term funding measure that ended a previousrnclosure in ...
House lawmakers will vote early Thursday afternoon ona short-term spending patch, allowing them more time to wrap their government funding work for the fiscal year. How it'll work:The legislation — just six pages long — will move through an expedited process requiring two-thirds support in th...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a short-term bill to extend federal government funding until March 11 to avoid a government shutdown. The House voted 272-162 to pass the bill, known as the continuing resolution (CR), to give lawmakers...
House Republican leaders then negotiated again with Democratic leaders, and just six hours before a potential federal government shutdown, the two sides reached an agreement and passed a new short-term spending bill. US Con...
for several more weeks until the FY2024 bills are finalized. Funding for Ukraine and Israel also remains in limbo. But as long as the Senate passes the new CR and the President signs it into law by midnight Friday, the government will continue working uninterrupted through the holiday season....
The bill now goes to the Senate. The House also passed a stopgap measure by voice vote to extend federal government funding until March 15 to give the Senate enough time to pass the omnibus spending bill and avoid a government shutdown. The current government funding expires on Friday. ...
Nevertheless, the Senate must pass or amend the bill before March 27, when the current funding runs out, in order to avoid a government shutdown. "The Senate should pass the House measure without delay so we can continue focusing on helping Americans get back to work and putting the cou...
House Democratsunveiledthe text of the bill, known as a continuing resolution, on Tuesday, amid bicameral, bipartisan efforts to reach consensus on the broader proposal to fund the U.S. government through most of 2023. House and Senate negotiators had announced Tuesday night that they hadagreed ...