As Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, a conservative Christian, scrambled for votes to get the bill passed in his chamber, he allegedly touted the Pride flag ban as a reason his party should support the bill, the Daily Beast reported. The White House said Saturday it would seek...
The amendment has been in place since 2014, as a part of annual spending bills. Because the provision was initially approved as a budgetary amendment, it must be explicitly re-authorized by Congress as part of either a continuing resolution or a new fiscal year appropriations bill in order to...
SINGAPORE (ICIS)--The US government has shut down after a vote on a budget deal negotiated between Democrats and Republicans was not passed on time, according to media reports. This was the second shutdown in three weeks. US lawmakers failed to approve a new spending bill before federal fund...
Congressional leaders have unveiled a stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government funded through March 14 and provide more than $100 billion in emergency aid to help states and local communities recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters. The measure would p...
The package wraps six spending bills into one to fund about three-quarters of the government until the end of the fiscal year. The bill includes money for the departments of State, Homeland Security, Defense, Labor and Health and Human Services, as well as funds for foreign operations, financ...
Musk, who is heading Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, warned, “Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” It’s not an idle threat coming from Musk, the world’s richest man,...
Christopher S. Bond of Missouri.A vote on the environmental deal was scheduled for Tuesday, as was the final vote on the overall bill to cover government spending through the rest of the 1996 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 鈥Ap
Last week’s government funding bill = Significant new benefit plan rulesLinkedIn Facebook X Send Embed On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 was signed into law. The Act imposes significant new requirements on employee benefit plans. Coupled with other rules and legal ...
Members of the Knessetfrom the opposition took the opportunity of the finance minister’s presence in the committee to criticize the bill and the government’s economic performance in general. Unnecessary government spending Yesh Atid MK Vladimir Beliak, the opposition’s coordinator in the committee...
Back in 2020,I warnedthat then-Mayor Bill de Blasio was setting the stage for fiscal crisis. During his eight years in office, he violatedfiscal policy’s golden ruleby increasing the burden of government spending at three times the rate of inflation. ...