The funding package, released just before midnight on Monday, would punt difficult negotiations over the dozen annual spending bills until after the November midterm elections. It notably sidesteps the Biden administration’s requestfor emergency funds to combat the coronavirus pandemicand monkeypox, acc...
Under thebipartisan spending billthat passed both chambers of Congress on Friday, TikTok will be banned from government devices, underscoring the growing concern about the popular video-sharing app owned by China's ByteDance. The bill, which still has to be signed into law by President Joe Bide...
Biden on Monday vowed to veto the House Republican spending bills if they make it to his desk, saying they backed away from the deal. The military and veterans bill would provide $155.7 billion in discretionary spending for military construction and veterans affairs. The health and agriculture ...
Under Trump and Biden, the spending burden has grown much faster (even if we ignore the orgy of COVID spending). Unfortunately, it is likely that the next four years will be just as bad as the past eight years. That’s because both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are big spenders. Not...
"This bill is further proof that Republicans and Democrats can come together to deliver for the American people, and I’m looking forward to continued bipartisan progress in the year ahead," Biden said in his own statement after the House passed the bill in a ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has been under pressure from his right flank to scrap a $1.66 trillion budget price tag he reached with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer earlier this month for the spending bills. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the continuing resolution passed Thursday will fa...
Democrats promised more aid to come once Biden takes office, but Republicans were signaling a wait-and-see approach. The measure would fund the government through September, wrapping a year’s worth of action on annual spending bills into a single package that never saw Senate co...
Congress needs to focus on helping rather than undermining our recovery. All five COVID bills last year were passed with near-unanimous bipartisan support. I hope President Biden will back away from his partisan proposal and make good on his pledge to work with Republicans to meet our nation’...
The House passed legislation pushed by socialite Paris Hilton meant to help combat the kind of abuse at youth centers she herself endured as a teen, sending the measure to President Joe Biden’s desk. The vote was 373 to 33. “I was force-fed medications and sexually abused by the staf...
with a simple majority. But they would need almost every Republican to vote in support of teeing up debate, then for passage — a feat they have continually failed to pull off over the last two years as conservative lawmakers block party leaders from passing funding bills under a simple ...